One woman has changed my life more than any other, and we only met socially 3 times. On the first occasion, in 1993, Margaret Jones had me on a place to the edge of a Siberian winter 48 hours later, and a year later into the heart of post-genocidal Rwanda. . Chapter 5 of Around the World in 80 Disasters - what happens when you send a fat Brit into temperatures of -28, armed with a raincoat, fake fur hat and no gloves.

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I have visited 96 counties and lived in 10, and I have had more than my fair share of disasters. Around the World in 80 Disasters by Paul Bradbury will be published shortly, but as an experiment, we are releasing the book by video story, one a week. After being Hitchhiking from Manchester to Moscow and being Homeless in the Soviet Union, followed by Being Arrested in My Bathrobe at St Petersburg Train Station, here is Chapter 4. St Petersburg: How to Compress a Lada in 2 Easy Steps (1992)

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