In article ,
Keith Willshaw wrote:

"ANDREW ROBERT BREEN" wrote in message
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In article .net,
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

I am looking at the UK too. It is small.

Having looked at Russia (from flights out to Japan) the USA is small
and the UK very small..

Yeah I recall an 8 hour flight from Leningrad that got me
about half way to Vladivostok.

Would that have been to Yakutsk? My former boss (now dead, sadly)
spent a fair amount of time working with the geophysical institute
there in the middle and late 80s, eventually leading to him being
immortalised by Steve Bell as the Plaid Siberu candidate in the
Vale of Yakutsk bye-election series of cartoons.

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