Bonjour Konstantin,
I am back to France and would like to thank you for your warm welcome and hospitality. Partly thanks to the kindness of the people we met there, this trip to Russia will remain one of my best memories.
Would you be so kind as to send me Tatiana?s address, so I could thank her as well?
Please don?t forget that you are welcome to stay at my place whenever you want to discover the region of Annecy.
I wish you all the best for the future.
Kind regards,
Marie

Firstly: You were brilliant. Enthusiastic and passionate about your place and so knowledgeable about all the questions that I asked. Obviously a real good business that makes a huge difference to local craft businesses, restaurants, and the community feeling proud of their place and what it offers to those of us lucky enough to visit you! Not to mention the adhoc excitement of landing in a snow drift and giving a bit of unplanned business to the local towing company!!!
I will have been away for just over six weeks when I get home on January 14th and Ekaterinburg will be a real highlight of my trip. I have found most of the trip testing and very challenging at times and it left me with a real apathy, and a sense of despond a lot of the time, which makes it hard to get out of bed in the morning! But for the two days I spent under your professional guiding and your fascinating take on the world that Russia is now living in, the apathy and despond almost left me - for that time just being a vague background noise. Thank you for that short reprieve - your care and attention and your personality and attitude was much to do with it.
As for the proper feedback form!
The hotel was good. Loved the unexpected lunch box, the room was spotless and the hospitality good. There was no coffee one morning, but everything was friendly and caring
The city tour familiarising was brilliant, and that you added in getting a ticket for the ballet was kind and thoughtful (like getting the plastic bag for my boots!). I have not had such a tour here in Harbin and am the lesser able for that absence! The map is brilliant even though I did not have time to use it much. It is the first time that I felt another day in a place would have been good and well occupied!
The Day trip was great in ALL respects! I loved that you still got me into that old church even though we were up against time!

You were just great as both guide and driver and historian.
The ballet was so worth going to!

So a BIG thank you.