Trip Report: Minsk, Belorussia

Coming to Minsk brought back memories from my childhood after the second world war: memories of suffering from the cold, the gusting wind, the freezing snow. … It was 2 degrees Celsius below zero in Minsk, and I was told that this was warm for the season: it sometimes gets down to 30 degrees Celsius below zero.

In such weather I had no desire to get out and visit anything. So at night I watched lots of television. And an insight came to me.