Part 3 : An Eight Day Trip away from Home

Upon touchdown into Moscow, some of us made a trip to an Italian restaurant whereby i ate the most delicious blue cheese pizza ever. As my money changer had given me one thousand Russian rubles in stacks of ten dollar notes, the bill looked like we paid a hefty sum. We headed back to the hotel immediately on foot as the cold was unbearable. The night pictures shown below was not easy to take as each shot had me remove my gloves which caused my hands to freeze and become numb almost immediately.

It was indeed a white Christmas for me and the temperature ranged between -8 to -12 degrees Celsius. The city was blanketed by snow and some people were even traveling around on horses. One of the pictures below shows a mosque, a large amount of Russians are Muslim.

I stayed in the following day as the temperature got even colder and so did everyone else. Many of them had gotten cold rashes, the flu and fever even when staying within the premises of the hotel. Unfortunately, i got stubborn and when out in search of a stall that sells calling cards and i almost felt like my nose would fall off my face. The coldest month in Russia would be in February whereby the temperature could drop to a minus 40 degrees Celsius.

That pretty much sums up my Eight day trip. Its great to be back home.