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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 4 2o18 Katy Beinart | Khlebosolny/Bread and Salt 21 then travel over land by bus to the capital Vilnius where we would meet our father William, who would be accompanying us by car to Rokiskis. Finally, we would catch a sleeper train from Vilnius to St Petersburg, returning to the UK by air (see map, figure 3). In our luggage, we took our starter culture mix for bread-making, and the salt we had collected in the salt pans in South Africa, with plans to re-enact our khlebosolny threshold ritual of sharing bread and salt at points on our journey.17 Hamburg: Finding Anne (2012-17) “We spent Saturday roaming the streets of Hamburg, following the very faint trail of our great-great-grandmother Anne Filaratoff, and her father Nicho- las. We believe they came to Hamburg from St Petersburg in the 1870s and stayed for up to a decade before leaving for Hull (and Anne eventually for South Africa). Katy had scanned two portrait photographs of Anne, with the address of 19th-century photography studios on the back. So we began our day searching for these addresses, negotiating a large triathlon that blocked many of the city centre streets. Opposite the Rathaus, we found the first address, which had a serendipitous advert for a photo service in the window. The second address was now a shiny clothes shop, and we took photographs at each location posed as Anne had, 120 years ago.”18 17 Beinart, ‘Origination: Journeying In The Footsteps Of Our Ancestors’, p. 167, 170. 18 Katy and Rebecca Beinart, ‘Hamburg-Veddel’, Origination (blog), 26 July 2012. Project Blog at AN Artists Talking, <https://www.a- n.co.uk/blogs/origination/>