Hope you get this in time!
Enjoy yourself and keep us posted with all you find out there. "His lordship" has only made it into Siberia 2 days ago, after being in Moscow and then Kyrghyzstan, and has missed the worst of the cold although he was expecting -30 and said he could cope with that. He did say it might cause a problem for skiing at the weekend (-30 + windchill = aargh!) Anyway he's back to Moscow and Rostov on Monday and out to China at the end of next week.
Good luck!
Andrea