Andrej Malenkov

This is Andrej and Larissa Malenkov from Nijnii Novgorod. I met them close to the Ponte Vecchio having the time of their lives. Andrej drives a cab and a couple of months ago took a fare from the hotel to the station. He got into his car to go back to town when he noticed a black plastic case with a couple of dozen memory cards marked with recent dates. He ran into the station where his brother-in-law, Ivan Denisovich, was second station master and asked him to call the train. Ivan contacted the conductor who found one horribly hung-over photo reporter sleeping it off in an empty first-class compartment. He woke him up and showed him the picture of the case with the memory cards sent to him ... the guy almost had a heart attack. Andrej used DHL to courier the box to the hotel in Rostov, where the reporter went next and got a wire for a thousand Euros in his name. The money was enough to replace the transmission in his aging Honda (his idea) or for a four-day trip to Florence (Larissa's idea). Andrej hated eating pizza from cardboard boxes but loved taking selfies with his wife.