Our Winter destination was Far East of Russia - SAKHALIN ISLAND. It's Yulia's homeland, beautiful underappreciated Russian nature reserve. I'll start with a shoker: -26°C was the lowest temperature we experienced during the trip. We live in Auckland, New Zealand and the lowest ever possible temperature here at winter time was -4°C and it's very VERY cold, as there are no buildings with central heating at all . You can't say the same about Russia. Thats why the clothes in wint