The cold weather gets you down?
Days are too short and too dark?
You don’t wanna go out, it’s freezing?
Try this one on for size: -55Celsius! Daytime! Now that is cold! If you live in Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia you can experience it all day, every day in winter. It is so cold they have heated bus stops where you can sit inside while waiting for your next ride. It is so cold they have blankets for cars. And auto-start systems installed that starts the car’s engine when the temperature inside the car drops to -5C. Outside the city they don’t have running water in the houses, waterpipes in the ground would freeze, so they do their toilet business in “outhouses”. Unheated outhouses! In Japan you have heated seats on the toilets. In Yakutsk the toilets are outside (in the countryside that is)!
Can you imagine? And yet there are people who take a bath, in that cold temperature, outdoors, in ice cold water. Now that is just crazy! So next time you think that +2C is too cold, just look at these pictures and thank your lucky stars that you live in Chiba not in Siberia. Alex