Want a real working holiday? isango (
www.isango.com) is reporting a healthy sign-up for the most masochistic day trip of 2008: a day of slogging in Siberian village. If you're at a loose end in the city of Yekaterinburg, a guide will drop you in a nearby Russian village for a few hours' chopping wood, fetching water and spinning yarn. From £75pp, it includes a slap-up spuds-and-meat dinner and folk dancing.
