'The reason the wind is so cold is that there's nothing between here and the Urals'. A casual remark by his father, to which no one else seems to have paid the slightest attention, sets Richard Guise off on an unlikely adventure. Fifty years after standing on that chilly Leicestershire hilltop, he aims to prove his father wrong. A quest for truth, beer and jokes through England, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Belarus and Russia.