Nimikirjaimet.

"Poetry in itself."

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Russia Picture by Jonathan Campion
Travel story: Nimikirjaimet.

My only job today was to reserve two rooms at Hotel Fatima in Kazan. Finding the email address was easy enough, but I had no idea how to write a formal email in Russian. I enquired politely and received a reply almost straight away. I checked it ten times for grammar mistakes before sending it, but when I read it back to myself I wasn't sure whether I had "reserved" the rooms or "demanded" them. Fatima is the same hotel that we stayed in when the Yartek group went to Kazan - beautifully... More