10 years ago: Moscow-Murmansk-Moscow

As usual, March in Moscow was misty, chilly, and desperately depressive. Gray days started with late, uncomely sunrises when the sun is covered by clouds so badly that one not having a watch can't understand if the daytime had been already started or not. The days continued with onerous traffic jams on the dirty roads covered by muddy melting snow, and ended with moral and bodily fatigue, amplified by spring vitamin deficiency.

Where one, being immersed into such reality, would be dreaming to escape for a short holiday? Now it is difficult to believe, but in 2005 we decided to go to Murmansk – the extreme North Russian city situated within the Polar circle.

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