And this one in Murmansk is particularly interesting...well, maybe not the lighthouse itself, but the position of Murmansk...it is located in the extreme north-west part of Russia, on the Kola Bay...and you know that I get a special heart-beat for those places which are located at some extreme point on earth.
The port remains ice-free year round due to the warm North Atlantic drift ocean current, and it is set to be the Russian terminus of the Arctic Bridge (or Arctic Sea Bridge), a sea route linking it to the Canadian port of Churchill, Manitoba.
and some brrr temperatures.....the average highest temperature in July reaches only 17.2 degrees Celsius...ok, I prefer colder weather than our unbearable summers, but I dont think I could live long in a place where during the year, the temperature is either below or around zero...uhmm...what was that about me wanting to live in Norway?!.....Maybe I should give it a second thought :)
Im not sure though what was the situation in Murmansk this summer, when Russia was caught in that awful heat-wave..
and some nice Russian stamps...the small one is one of the Russian definitives issued in 2008 in a set of 15 stamps, this one representing a Fox....the other two stamps were issued this year...the green one on the left comes from a set of 4 stamps showing costumes, while the other one is also from a set of 4 stamps, showing WWII weapons.
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