Here I am, a few weeks from setting off on the journey of a lifetime, a trip I have wanted to do for 35 years – more than half my life – its planned almost to the hour, its even funded by a windfall, and I’ve got cold feet????? Why????? Should I worry that my country and Russia are hovvering on the edge of a major diplomatic spat???? Will they notice a little middle aged (well, elderly really, to be accurate but, well, I don’t feel elderly….yet….) woman with her rucksack sitting on a train?? Will they mind?? Will they let me in? And out again at the end? Will they be hostile? Will it just make it all the more of an adventure or will it make it hell? Or will it all be blown over by then????