After an unusually warm autumn, winter finally struck Moscow last week. Whilst the UK and other parts of Northern Europe were engulfed in snow showers and plummeting temperatures of minus 6 I was enjoying a 15minute walk to some schools in temperatures ranging from minus 15 to minus twenty. You know it’s cold when you are judging the temperature on how quickly your earphones and trousers freeze. Yes, the gloves have come out, the hat is being worn and I am abandoning my Northern routes by wearing a coat; it is cold. I never though that I would think that minus 10 was warm, but last week that was every new teachers thought.
For the last 6months of the 8months I was in Cambodia I waited and I prayed for the Russian winter I was expecting and now that it is here it is living up to expectations. With one let down.
There is not enough snow.
Whilst Wolsingham, Newcastle and all other places in the UK have been getting record snow fall, snow depth in Moscow has barely reached 3inches. It may stay for an incredible amount of time; the snow from last Saturday night has barely receded but there is still not enough of the stuff for my personal liking.
Anyway, here’s hoping and praying for some more snow and a long cold, but sunny, winter!
The pond by my house in October
And again taken on 4th December
Kids playing on the ice with the power station
chimney stack as a majestic backdrop
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