Winter is here ! (or should I say "was" here)
Now that I'm finally out of hibernation it is time for me to publish this much overdue article on the Siberian winter. I wrote it in December and for some reasons I just haven't taken the time to edit it up till now. So here it goes.... After weeks, and let’s admit months of anticipation, it finally arrived. On the 11th November. I remember the day perfectly, I was going to yoga when I stumbled upon the corpse of a dead cactus in the parking lot I was crossing. A dire omen of the departure of the warmth from this area of the globe. Less than 24 hours later, the city was covered in snow. Winter had come. Here is an account on how we are dealing with it so far and some advice on how to dress in such low temperatures. The first snowfall felt magical. For a European used to dreaming hopelessly of a white Christmas, I couldn’t help but feel that Christmas was near. But my birthday hadn’t even come yet and I quickly relinquished this feeling