To Russia for love, part 1

With a Rossiya Airlines flight from Rome via St Petersburg to Omsk in Siberia, I had to sleep on the benches of Rome Fiumicino airport in order to catch the early-morning flight the next day, so I had set off by train from Massa the previous evening. And given the time difference of +5 hours, I arrived in Omsk the following morning. In October 2011. Here the cold bites, though it's dry and therefore bearable. It starts to feel like cold between minus 20 and minus 40 degrees.