It has been nearly a year since arriving in Moscow and this weekend I saw snow like I had never seen before. After what already seems like a long winter, which has been mainly cold, grey and dry, record snowfall descended on Moscow. More than half the monthly average snow – 38cm (15 inches) – fell on Saturday the 3rd of February, beating the previous record from 1957. It was amazing to see such heavy snowfall and how everything kept working. It had already been snowing for days before the heavy deluge of snow started. But it seems all day every day, there are teams of snow cleaners/removers in orange coats removing snow from the roads and then the pavements. The snow then gets put into trucks and moved out of the city to start a new life.
On the Sunday I managed to fly out of Domodedovo at 9am to Zurich roughly on time, which was amazing given the amount of snow around and still falling. I have never seen flights take off in such weather. It was a good job it did, as I had to get back to the UK for the coming week, as I had important meetings. I will now only be back in Moscow for 3 days between now and April, when it should be spring, as I have trips to Germany and China and coming up.
Robin Bell 
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