Glad you're ok and enjoying it! By the way the mafia are usually to be seen in black leather, and drinking in the sort of bars that only foreigners and they could afford!

My other half has just decamped to Shenyang, which isn't all that far south of Vladivostok really, 'cept in China. He had heard it was -25 there last week. I haven't had contact with him yet. It got to -30 or so in Kemerovo, and he told me about the humidity freezing so that ice particles sparkled in the air!

Keep us posted.

Andrea