Ruth's latest entry
Odessa, Ukraine
Arrived at Odessa airport from Riga where we were jumped on by taxi drivers haggling for trade.
"Sixty dollars for city", a large, generally beige guy shouted.
"He say sixty, I go to for fifty!"
"No", I said in Russian, "too expensive!"
"You are Westerners - we are poor. You pay us fifty dollars."
And that was when I felt ashamed to be…

