This is YAKUTSK in Siberia. Is it really that cold, you ask?
“No other place on the planet experiences the temperature extreme found here: in winter, the temperatures regularly fall to minus 40° (the coldest temperature recorded was -64°C) and in summer often reaches temperatures above 30°C”
Yakutsk has a population of 270,000 people (!).
Photographs by Steve Iuncker
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This year has been a massively disappointing winter with only a scanty 1 or 2 days of proper snow to drive around in—–and all in a year when i searched months for the right wheels to put on brand new snow tires.
I am left to wonder what could have been……well here’s a nice photo from 1916 with white stuff filling up the street in Seattle, a place I will be later this week for a visit.
src: vintage seattle
Never let me go near a Dunhill store without taking my wallet from me; that’s the moral of the story.
As of yet, I have never been able to walk into a Dunhill store and not walk out with a bag in my hand, in fact my impulsive buying at that shop in particular is a bit scary.
The damage today wasn’t that bad….err, relatively speaking. I’d been looking for a new pair of winter gloves for the past week or two, having even dismissed a pair i liked somewhere last week because they were “too expensive” ($100)…..fast forward to today, I was invited to the Audi Forum in Manhattan for some free drinks, a look around the cars they had, and a general social gathering. The gathering was quite boring, so i swigged down 2 Amstels and decided to walk 9 blocks to go to the Dunhill store.
The damage? Well the winter “Shearling” gloves i bought were $225. But OH how they feel when i put them on……the inside is lined with mink fur, and the outside trimmed in leather and suede. I drove home in the TT, and the gloves just felt EPIC. Surely the fact that i’d just spent $225 on them made them just that much more beautiful.
One of my favourite photos of recent memory…..FANTASTIC!
Foto taken by Thomas1978 (QW)
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Not sure where this photo originates from, but it was taken this week in IEDEI’s hometown of NYC! Fantastic. Lamborghini Murcielago.
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