Olga Fedina grew up in Moscow in the turbulent late-Soviet and immediately post-Soviet years. Having learnt English listening to the songs of The Beatles and The Doors and while still a student at the Department of Journalism of Moscow State University, she started working for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. Those were the early 1990s, the golden years of journalism in Russia, when the freedom of the press was extraordinary and exhilarating. The desire to get to know the world subsequently brought her to London, where she then lived for a decade, teaching Russian and doing translations and research for books on Russia.Having done a 180 degree turn in her career and wishing to pursue her long-standing interest in Oriental methods of health preservation, she requalified as an acupuncturist and together with her husband moved to Valencia, Spain. She now has a busy acupuncture clinic in this charming Mediterranean city.Olga sometimes misses her homeland, and this book expresses some of the unique aspects of Russia and the Russians that she always carries with her.