Today the Gabfest
speaking club had walk-in guests from the Netherlands. Ladies Sabine and Jannie
came to our city on a noble mission – to visit the field where Sabine’s family
member is buried. He was German and was killed in action during the World War
II.
The guests
of the city stayed in the lovely Astoria hotel. The club members told them a
lot of funny facts about the history of the hotel.
It was the
head quarters of the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno during the Civil War in
1919.The classical Russian novelist Alexey Tolstoy described it in his novel “The Ordeal”.
The club
members recommended them the places of interest – from the historical and
Blavatskaya museums to the nuclear missiles and space rockets display in the
local machine building factory.
The ladies
told us a few things about Holland and joined the movie club for the screening
of “To kill a mocking bird”.
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