The kindness of strangers: we thought we'd been poisoned at Tolstoy's house. Then a local explained what we had really drunk
Briefly

When we arrived at the writer's house, we were overheated and dehydrated. Our first stop was the little restaurant, which served recipes by Tolstoy's wife, Sophia.
The bottled water we received looked normal but tasted bizarre. Our expressions confirmed we shared the experience of this 'disaster' as we tried to communicate with the waitress.
My sister and friend, both law students, couldn't help but draw parallels to the classic legal case of the decomposing snail in ginger beer.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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