{"id":1927,"date":"2020-08-08T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2021-06-03T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T10:48:51","slug":"englishman-chilling-in-zelenogradsk-with-bear-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/englishman-chilling-in-zelenogradsk-with-bear-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Englishman Chilling in Zelenogradsk with Bear &#038; Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 141 [2 August 2020]<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 8 August 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8216;You ought to get out more!&#8217; Since the birth of coronavirus, the intentional irony in this off-hand remark has taken on a whole new irrational meaning. We know that we want to get out more, but we are told that we should stay in more, and even a patriot like Nigel Farage, who does get out occasionally to do nothing more obnoxious than stand on a cliffside in Dover watching the endless flow of boats coming in full of happy smiling migrants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4VvzKM9q95w\">destined for 4-star hotels<\/a> (they do get free face masks as well), is castigated by the liberal press for breaking UK quarantine rules when they know full well he is not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">That\u2019s quite funny, isn\u2019t it? One Englishman pursued doggedly by the UK\u2019s liberal media for travelling down to Kent, whilst hundreds of migrants from every corner of the globe you have never heard of, and don\u2019t particularly want to, are pouring into the UK like, er let\u2019s say hard water through a Co-op tea bag, and on arrival, having been duly welcomed by our British Polite force, are then bussed to British hotels to reside in non-social distancing proximity at the expense of the British taxpayer. Hmmm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"background-color:#1700a3\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-white-color\">Previous articles:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/diary-of-a-self-isolator\/\">Article 1: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 1 [20 March 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/self-isolating-lockdown\/\">Article 2: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 6 [25 March 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/self-isolation-kaliningrad\/\">Article 3: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 7 [26 March 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/update-kaliningrad-coronavirus\/\">Article 4: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 9 [28 March 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/staying-at-home-in-kaliningrad\/\">Article 5: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 10 [29 March 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/kaliningrad-top-of-self-isolators\/\">Article 6: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 16 [4 April 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/positive-outcomes-from-coronavirus\/\">Article 7: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 19 [7 April 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/diary-of-a-self-isolator-in-kaliningrad\/\">Article 8: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 35 [23 April 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/englishman-self-isolating-in-kaliningrad\/\">Article 9: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 52 [10 May 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/isolation-restrictions-change-in-kaliningrad\/\">Article 10: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 54 [12 May 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/kaliningrad-a-green-city\/\">Article 11: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 65 [23 May 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/arguing-in-coronavirus-isolation\/\">Article 12: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 74 [1 June 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/max-aschmann-park-kaliningrad\/\">Article 13: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 84 [11 June 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/coronavirus-in-kaliningrad-25-june\/\">Article 14: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 98 [25 June 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/social-distancing-in-zelenogradsk\/\">Article 15: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 106 [3 July 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/socialising-in-the-coronavirus-age\/\">Article 16: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 115 [12 July 2020]<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/second-wave-coronavirus-a-new-east-west-divide\/\">Article 17: Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 138 [30 July 2020]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Englishman Chilling in Zelenogradsk with Bear &amp; Beer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Safe in the knowledge that, to use Mrs May\u2019s expression, it was \u2018highly likely\u2019 that there would not be a train of migrant boats being dutifully escorted to the shores of the Baltic Coast, I decided that a second trip to the coastal resort Zelenogradsk was needed before second wave coronavirus potentially washes us back over the isolation threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From Kaliningrad by car, the journey to Zelenogradsk takes between 20 and 30 minutes on the region\u2019s modern road network (providing the crowds are not out!). As we zipped along in a friend\u2019s car, I reflected on how long and cumbersome the same journey used to be just after Perestroika, bumping and pot-hole dodging the old German road within its crash-insensitive&nbsp; avenue of big gnarled trees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ahhh, Kaliningrad\u2019s new generations do not remember those times, but for those of us who do, we are able to appreciate just how extensive and beneficial improvements in this region have been over the last 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Englishman Chilling in Zelenogradsk with Bear &amp; Beer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It was another beautiful day in this priceless exclave of Russia as we drew in at the side of the road close to the bus park and rail station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We had been forewarned by Zelenogradsk residents that we would find the resort exceptionally busy, far busier than it was when we last visited three weeks or more ago. To some extent, this was to be expected, as we were now further along holiday-period road, but our sources informed us that the tourist population had swelled as a result of the Russian government\u2019s incentivisation to boost domestic tourism, which, with international travel limited and some of the borders still closed, appeared to be doing the trick. Apropos of this, I prepared myself for the game of spot the Muscovite on holiday. What I was not prepared to find was that bears (<em>meeshkee<\/em>) would also be taking advantage of the relaxed self-isolation rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There was one standing by the side of the road as we alighted from the car. Just to prove the western prejudice that bears really do walk the streets of Russia, I asked him nicely if I could have my photograph taken standing next to him. As you can see from the photograph, he was only too happy to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As I walked away, however, I sensed that this particular bear was becoming increasingly grizzly. \u201cAnglichanin! Anglichanin!\u201d he growled (Anglichanin meaning Englishman). Looking back, I saw that he was standing with his right arm extended. His palm was open and he was repeatedly scratching it with his claws in a gesture that could only mean that he had a terrible itch. Poor bear, I thought. And then the possibility dawned on me that perhaps non-isolating meeshkee who consented to have their photograph taken expected to be remunerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Having crossed his palm with rubles, we dropped our travelling bag off at the dacha kindly lent out to us by a friend, and took a walk along the prom. Yep, the news was spot on, both the prom and beach were busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The frontside bars and restaurants were also busy, not full but far from empty. For the first time I caught a whiff of nostalgia. If anybody had told me six months ago that I would be shunning these essential establishments for health reasons I would have laughed at them. More shocking came the realisation that this was possibly the longest continual period in my life, at least from the age of 14, that I had not frequented a pub or bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To take my mind off this reprehensible milestone, we decided to take a brief excursion into the backstreets of the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">What a delight these streets are. Architecturally, they provide the onlooker with an historical snapshot of the region\u2019s social history, an evocative diorama depicting life from pre-war Germany, through the Second World War, across the Cold War period and into the present day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Nostalgically, this pre- and one ardently hopes never-to-happen gentrification, echoes, for my generation at least, a time of natural realism now forever lost in the UK, but preserved in Kaliningrad and in its surrounding towns and villages in the overgrown verges, rough tracks, a seemingly inexhaustible inventiveness for recycled car and lorry tyres, vegetable plots neatly honed, vibrant cottage flower beds and an astonishing medley of makeshift sheds, lean-tos and little old barns. (See my later post, which I haven\u2019t written yet.) I cannot remember the name of the street ~ I think it was Memory Lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-attachment-id=\"1935\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/englishman-chilling-in-zelenogradsk-with-bear-beer\/track-trees-zeleno-rz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Track-Trees-Zeleno-Rz.jpg?fit=1260%2C945&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1260,945\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1596381472&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?fit=625%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1934\" data-link=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?attachment_id=1934\" class=\"wp-image-1934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?resize=24%2C18&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?resize=36%2C27&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?resize=48%2C36&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zeleno-Roadside-Scene-Rz.jpg?w=1260&amp;ssl=1 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From this enlightening excursion, we ambled back to the dacha, stopping on the way for some edible provisions and, naturally, a couple of bottles of beer. We were going to divvy up the grub and, making a picnic with it along with one of the bottles of beer, head off to the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We had decided to walk away from the nearest, the most central point of the beach as this was where people would naturally be most concentrated, thus availing ourselves of a quieter spot whilst fulfilling our social contract to observe the one-metre rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Our plan paid off. We found a nice, white sandy stretch of beach with a convenient barrage of sea-breaker sandbags against which I could rest my back as I drank my beer whilst my wife, Olga, went for a swim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"469\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"1936\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/englishman-chilling-in-zelenogradsk-with-bear-beer\/me-on-beach-4-with-beer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?fit=704%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"704,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Me-on-beach-4-with-beer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?fit=138%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?fit=469%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?resize=469%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mick Hart Chilling in Zelenogradsk with Bear &amp; Beer\" class=\"wp-image-1936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?resize=469%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 469w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?resize=138%2C300&amp;ssl=1 138w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?resize=624%2C1361&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?resize=11%2C24&amp;ssl=1 11w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?resize=17%2C36&amp;ssl=1 17w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?resize=22%2C48&amp;ssl=1 22w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Me-on-beach-4-with-beer.jpg?w=704&amp;ssl=1 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><figcaption>Mick Hart chilling on Zelinogradsk beach, Baltic Coast, Russia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The water was gloriously warm, Olga informed me later, and my beer, which had been well-chilled at the outset, kept sustainably so parked between the sandbags where I had placed it at ground level. We were each so comfortable in our own right, according to our own pursuits, that we stayed put until evening and by so doing were granted a first-rate view of one of the Baltic Coast\u2019s legendary sunsets ~ sublimity at its best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"653\" data-attachment-id=\"1937\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/englishman-chilling-in-zelenogradsk-with-bear-beer\/another-sunset-pic-crop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Another-sunset-pic-crop.jpg?fit=700%2C731&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,731\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1596829657&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Another-sunset-pic-crop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Another-sunset-pic-crop.jpg?fit=287%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Another-sunset-pic-crop.jpg?fit=625%2C653&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Another-sunset-pic-crop.jpg?resize=625%2C653&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Zalinogradsk Baltic Coast Russia, Sunset August 2020. Englishman Chilling in Zelenogradsk\" class=\"wp-image-1937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Another-sunset-pic-crop.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Another-sunset-pic-crop.jpg?resize=287%2C300&amp;ssl=1 287w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Another-sunset-pic-crop.jpg?resize=624%2C652&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Another-sunset-pic-crop.jpg?resize=24%2C24&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Another-sunset-pic-crop.jpg?resize=34%2C36&amp;ssl=1 34w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Another-sunset-pic-crop.jpg?resize=46%2C48&amp;ssl=1 46w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption>Zalinogradsk, Baltic Coast, Russia, Sunset August 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Making our way back into town, we spent another lazy hour sitting on one of the benches along the central promenade playing spot the Muscovite before returning to the dacha for a nightcap with a blue elephant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">No, this is not the name of a Russian beer (as far as I am aware), and neither have I reached the intoxication level whereupon such manifestations are commonplace to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The blue elephant in question was a little elephant made from Plasticine. On our way back from our street tour earlier, we had stumbled upon some young entrepreneurs selling Plasticine models on the edge of the sidewalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We bought the blue elephant from them, upon which one of the boys exclaimed excitedly, \u201cGreat, we\u2019ve now got enough money for three ice creams!\u201d and when I asked them if we could take their photograph they were even more excited, \u201cEnough for three ice creams and our photograph taken!\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" data-attachment-id=\"1938\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/englishman-chilling-in-zelenogradsk-with-bear-beer\/blue-elephant-company-rz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blue-Elephant-Company-Rz.jpg?fit=1260%2C945&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1260,945\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1596383539&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Blue-Elephant-Company-Rz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blue-Elephant-Company-Rz.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blue-Elephant-Company-Rz.jpg?fit=625%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blue-Elephant-Company-Rz.jpg?resize=625%2C469&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Olga Hart 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blue-Elephant-Company-Rz.jpg?resize=48%2C36&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blue-Elephant-Company-Rz.jpg?w=1260&amp;ssl=1 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption>Olga Hart buying a Plasticine elephant from young Russian entrepreneurs, Zelenogradsk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I think when I get back to Mick\u2019s Place (Attic Bar) I will allocate a special spot for this new drinking partner of mine, providing he keeps a metre apart and always wears his facemask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"973\" data-attachment-id=\"1939\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/englishman-chilling-in-zelenogradsk-with-bear-beer\/elephant-crop-rs\/\" 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Elephant-crop-Rs.jpeg?resize=625%2C973&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A blue Plasticine elephant from Zelenogradsk  August 2020. Englishman Chilling in Zelenogradsk\n\" class=\"wp-image-1939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Elephant-crop-Rs.jpeg?resize=658%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 658w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Elephant-crop-Rs.jpeg?resize=193%2C300&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Elephant-crop-Rs.jpeg?resize=768%2C1195&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Elephant-crop-Rs.jpeg?resize=624%2C971&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Elephant-crop-Rs.jpeg?resize=15%2C24&amp;ssl=1 15w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Elephant-crop-Rs.jpeg?resize=23%2C36&amp;ssl=1 23w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Elephant-crop-Rs.jpeg?resize=31%2C48&amp;ssl=1 31w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Elephant-crop-Rs.jpeg?w=810&amp;ssl=1 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption>Zelinogradsk, Russia: a hand-sculptured Plasticine elephant. Now  a drinking partner in MIck Hart&#8217;s bar <em>Mick&#8217;s Place<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#5b00a3\" class=\"has-text-color\">Copyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 141 [2 August 2020] Published: 8 August 2020 &#8216;You ought to get out more!&#8217; Since the birth of coronavirus, the intentional irony in this off-hand remark has taken on a whole new irrational meaning. 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