It’s been a while since I traveled far so I am excited to be
visiting two of my former home cities in the course of the next
month. I shall be in Warsaw from June 18 to 21 and in Moscow from
June 29 to July 3. Sadly these are not to be road trips, so
Speranza will stay quietly at home.
After years of frequent flying on business I avoid it now as much
as I can. I still love aeroplanes, but I truly hate
airports. Nowhere does one feel the force of an over-mighty state
more directly than in such places. I will grit my
teeth and focus on the anticipation of meeting old friends
in two of my favourite cities. My life in Poland was before
my blogging began. I moved there in 1992 and left in 2003. I
started this blog from Moscow in 2005 when the Prevention of
Terrorism Act’s attack on habeas
corpus upset me badly, but
always wrote only about issues in
Britain.
Both Poland and Russia have been through serious political
and economic changes since I lived there and I will be interested
to get updates from my friends. Blogging may well be light
during both trips as I have alway found it combines badly with
vodka! Actually, for someone who lived so long in the Slavic
world, I combine rather badly with vodka and
will try to stick to whisky, gin or tequila.
The Last Ditch by Tom Paine 
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