Getaway

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

No one can say I’m not romantic. On Valentine’s Day last year I took my partner away on a surprise weekend to a mysterious and exotic destination, a place of wonder and surprise.

‘Moscow?’ she said at the airport as I presented her ticket. ‘In February?’

‘You brought your coat, right? I told you to bring your coat.’

Who wouldn’t

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