Well, this is off-topic, but I just realized something. With the circumference of the longitudinal lines decreasing as you come near the earth's poles, you have a unique opportunity at hand. By standing at the pole itself, and running around in circles, you could cross the international date line many times during a short period. If you do this quickly and enough times, I believe you would travel through time. Be careful not to do this on a windy day though as you may lose your direction.

Excellent idea! But it is a pity, that from our island to a pole - almost 3000 kilometres :)

I've blown over in the wind, too, although not in conditions anywhere near that severe. Maybe you should strap weights to your ankles! That's awesome that you have a church there.

I don’t know how you do it, where I live summer temperature is 22 to 29 C And winter gets down to a really cold 15 to 20 C and we might have 5 days in the year where the early morning temp gets down to 5 for a few hours. I look at Russia and think, I could never survive. I’m unhappy when I have to put my shirt on at night. I see some Siberian area’s get down to –30C, I cant even imagine that, if you stop the car get out and have a leak, you’ll probably get stuck to the tree ;) Russia fascinates me, but the cold worries me. Here if people want to see the country they can do it with tents, or a camper vehicle, I suppose that is just out of the question in Russia, how do people tour Russia?