Having never been abroad I suddenly felt inspired about Russia and made up my mind to go there and I did! And it was not a disappointment in any way. Life on the boat was good. It was the Andrei Rublov. The sights were spectacular and I loves talking to the Russian people, sometimes in Russian. I now plan to improve my language skills and hhaving done the tourist thing I now want to spend some time among the people of Yaroslavl which is twinned with Exeter, my nearest city. My latest way to improve my Russian is using my iphone to play me Russian books while I am driving. My favourite is the Bible as I was brought up on it and have a better chance of understanding what is being said.Determination is what you need in any undertaking.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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