A TV presenter gets ready for her live-take during a training session of Colombia at the Spartak stadium in Moscow, Russia, July 2, 2018. As well as shooting all the matches, Reuters photographers are producing pictures showing their own quirky view from the sidelines of the World Cup. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
NIZHNY NOVGOROD (Reuters) - Such was my haste in packing and ignorance of Russia that I nearly followed my wife's recommendation to throw in a woolly hat for the World Cup before setting off from Venezuela.
Thank goodness I didn't, because it would have felt mighty silly having that in higher summer temperatures beside the Volga river than those back home on the Caribbean.
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