Have you spent time in Russia or Ukraine?

[steveseagull]

I have not been to Ukraine but did a long trip over Russia maybe ten years or go.

 

[NoXion]

I think Margate is the furthest East I've ever been.

 

[existentialist]

I missed out on a school trip to Moscow in 1979, because my parents couldn't afford it. Well, actually, because I didn't bother taking the letter home because I knew they couldn't afford it.

 

[Serge Forward]

No, but ten years ago, I was supposed to go to an international conference in Yalta. Sadly, I had to pull out last minute

 

[dessiato]

I've been to neither, I have taught a lot of Russian students.

 

[l'Otters]

6 days on a train from Ulaanbaator to St Petersburg. Then about 36 hours pause before getting on a train to Helsinki.

Would love to do a return trip one day, with more time to stop off even. But that looks evermore unrealistic by the hour

 

[marty21]

Nearest I have got to either is Poland.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Went to Russia with school and again with Frau Bahn. Got in trouble with police both times.

 

[frogwoman]

Been to Ukraine twice briefly over 10 years ago, have lived in Russia and Moldova.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I had 4 days in Moscow in November 1998…during a currency crisis, as it happens. They were in the process of taking the red stars off the top of the Kremlin.

 

[LDC]

I was in Ukraine, based in Donetsk although I traveled about a fair bit in the DPR and LPR areas, for most of spring and summer 2015 for work (medical).

 

[two sheds]

never. Union rep I used to work with in the late 70s used to go on holiday there. He said they'd be sat on a beach and when Russians heard he was English they'd come across to him and say "Bob-by ChArl-tOn" and shake his hand and he'd reply "LEv Yash-In" and they'd get on famously.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Yes and yes, and have been deported from Belarus

 

[kebabking]

I've been to Russia - short holiday: Moscow was a grim dump, St
Petersburg was quite pleasant compared to Moscow, but nothing on Copenhagen.

I've spent time in Ukraine for work. Not prolonged time, but a week here, a few days there kind of thing.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

5 days in St Petersburg a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it. I'm very glad I've been now as who knows when we will be able to go again. I'd love to go to Moscow.

 

[platinumsage]

I've been through Ukraine on a sleeper train. I remember the border guards coming through the train - it was all a bit of a novelty for them as it wasn't long after the end of the USSR. Then I fell asleep before Kharkiv, and remember someone checking the train wheels with a hammer in the middle of the night but that's about it.

 

[chilango]

20 odd years ago travelled across Russia by train. Got myself in all sorts of bother in Moscow beforehand. Ended up hiding in a forest.

Went to Ukraine as a foetus apparently.

 

[Pickman's model]

Been to Moscow, st Petersburg and Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia (plus dozed through Belarus) in 92, and a return from Yakutsk to tiksi a few years back.

 

[tim]

No, but ten years ago, I was supposed to go to an international conference in Yalta. Sadly, I had to pull out last minute

Did they send Clem Atlee in your stead?

 

[tim]

Yes and yes, and have been deported from Belarus

The best I've managed was deportation from Bulgaria.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes and yes, and have been deported from Belarus

The best I've managed was deportation from Bulgaria.

Has anyone here been deported from a country which doesn't start with b?

 

[Griff]

Went on a school trip to Moscow and Leningrad in 1986. A couple of us 'bigger boys' were allowed to go even though we'd left school a couple of years earlier and were thought to be responsible.

Amazing trip.

The 'furry hat men' who wanted Beatles tapes, Levis and US Dollars bugging us all the time.

The friendly people.

Minus 28 in the evening. It was February.

Open air swimming in Moscow, that was insane.

The architecture.

The look on the guide's face when we all got off the coach and started snowball fighting.

Empty Gum department store in Moscow.

Lining up to see Lenin and trying not to laugh shuffling past him.

The crowds of people gathered round a Lada with every '70s optional extra stuck on it and the police having to move them on.

The Moscow underground.

Meeting a class of Moscow schoolkids and talking about the East/West.

Plus so much more, an incredible week away.

The only picture I have on my tablet are my two 'erbert mates in their '80s casual finery outside the British Embassy in Moscow.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Has anyone here been deported from a country which doesn't start with b?

I have been deported from counties beginning with S & W.

 

[Pickman's model]

I have been deported from counties beginning with S & W.

Somerset and Worcestershire? I've just been ejected from Gloucestershire and forced back to London

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Somerset & Wiltshire (and City of London). Have since sneaked back in to all three.

 

[JimW]

Don't answer him , you fools! Why does he want this list?

 

[Pickman's model]

Somerset & Wiltshire (and City of London). Have since sneaked back in to all three.

Barred from the finance dept of Haringey council in '91 or '92 and never dared to test ban

 

[Sue]

Has anyone here been deported from a country which doesn't start with b?

A good friend was also deported from Bulgaria but he managed Australia too.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

A good friend was also deported from Bulgaria but he managed Australia too.

Katie Hopkins

 

[Oula]

I've never been deported from anywhere and now feel I should have made more effort