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The absent-minded lad of Leningrad. (First Person).
THE SMOOTH machinery of Intourist, the Soviet tourist agency, missed a beat when I arrived in Leningrad by train from Warsaw early one Sunday at the beginning of the 1980s. A guide was assigned to meet every tourist, but mine must have forgotten my arrival or overslept. Perhaps all that followed can be attributed to that absent-minded lad of Leningrad.
Seeing his default as an opportunity, I spoke to two African university students, who offered to take me in their taxi to the city centre. My travel voucher said only that I had a hotel in Leningrad, but the students insisted that this meant Hotel Leningrad.
Our taxi flanked a canal, cut through the Nevsky ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The absent-minded lad of Leningrad. (First Person).