Petersburg and Moscow and walked home unmolested police, people with wallets, and even a handful of bald guys with tattooed necks and gold teeth either treated us cordially or, like most people in every big city, ignored us altogether. If this were not enough, the Top 10 guide also suggested that visitors might be attacked by skinheads. It was also suggested that visitors watch out for the dropped wallet scam, whereby you’d return a wallet to the person who’d dropped it and be told that an enormous sum was missing, that you’d better return it immediately, and so on. Okay, I’ve been told to move on a couple of times in Baton Rouge and Tallahassee, but that’s because I was loitering no cop in either of those cities ever said I had a “fine” that could be settled on the spot by a double sawbuck. Petersburg guide, which warned, among other things, of police shakedowns, noting that police supplement their meager salaries by stopping pedestrians, discovering a non-existent irregularity in their papers, and then demanding an on-the-spot fine of twenty dollars or so. Petersburg airport, I thumbed through the “Getting Around” section of The Top 10 St. So what’s that country up to today?Īs our plane began its descent to the St. Russia’s imperial phase seems to be over (though the Georgians wouldn’t say so). As Edmund Wilson points out in Patriotic Gore, the Czar’s Russia swallowed up the innumerable peoples who made up the old Russian Empire, and after that, Stalin, while indignantly denouncing imperialism, devoured the Balkan and the Baltic countries and those of Central Europe. Then again, the rest of the world has always been afraid of Russia. And every night, there was a 95 year-old Russian grandmother who could not only outdrink you but toss you over her shoulder and carry you home.” “I had two shots with breakfast, between seven and nine with lunch, and from fourteen to sixteen shots with dinner-every day. It turns out she wanted to spend a month on the Trans-Siberian Railway.Īs it happened, it wasn’t the food Bourdain was troubled by but the vodka. I said sure, figuring she meant a drive to Apalachicola for the local oysters. A few months before, Barbara had asked if we could do something special for our 30th wedding anniversary. I had a special interest in this question since, earlier that same day, I’d put down a deposit of several thousand dollars on a rail journey from St. Bourdain had already confessed to eating sheep testicles in Morocco and a raw seal eyeball during an Inuit seal hunt as well as an unwashed warthog rectum in Namibia, so why was he warning his audience against Russia?
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“Don’t go to Russia,” said chef, author, and TV personality Anthony Bourdain during a May visit to my hometown.
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