Winston Churchill famously described Russia
as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Spend some time
in the workers paradise and few would disagree; you soon become accustomed to expecting the
unexpected.
And it’s advisable not to spend too long trying
to figure out logic behind the long list of oddities that confront you because there isn't one.
I've lost count the times I have
walked in to a hotel, guest house or apartment after a long and difficult day to find only after several minutes of frustrated fumbling in the dark that the light switch is not in the logical
place but is inconveniently tucked away behind the door.
Or in a different room,
The first few times this happens you find
yourself starring in disbelief, spluttering like Jeremy Clarkson “for the love of Nigel Mansell's moustache why?”
If you ask a Russian you will be met with a
shrug of the shoulders and a vague smile that seems to say haven’t you got
better things to worry about.
And they’d be right.
Beam me up Scotty.