Do You Know Who I Am?

Nice quote on the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel in St Petersburg -

"I am Engish and expect at least a modicum of good manners from hotel staff"

Oh well if you're English that's another matter, eh? How about 'I'm Guatamalan and I expect at least a modicum of hasheesh to be made available to me in room service"...

suddenly the history and drama of a city which has always been a bit different from the green and pleasant land and which, as Leningrad,  saw 1.5 million people (more than the population of Estonia) perish in the siege of 1941-44, people reduced to making soup from the glue scraped from cheap furniture and all that, I suppose they ought to have epxected at least a modicum of respect from the Nazis? Fuck off back to Bexhill on Sea or wherever you came from.

Oh well I'm only half English.