Doctor Diesel
Who would have thought that Larnaca airport on the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean offers almost daily flights to such far flung places as Yekaterinburg in the Urals? Not to mention direct flights to Moscow and St Petersburg. Yet on most days the airport’s waiting area is filled with women who sport blond beehives the size of their shopping bags. Accompanied by men who’ll be wearing the uniform outfit of new Russian “businessmeny” – garishly coloured shell suits – these formidable ladies will eventually embark on their plane chattering away while the locals will heave yet another sigh of relief.
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