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4 BROTHERS, 4 FAMILIES, 4 CONTINENTS, 4 PERSPECTIVES
Four brothers
This is about 4 brothers and their families living in different continents. Each week, each of us take a photo to reflect a common theme, and then we post them here. These help us keep in touch, and see aspects of each other's lives. We hope you enjoy our 4 windows...
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- Jamin and Julie
- Jeremy and Marianna
- Joel and Mara
- Jon and Courtney
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From top left:
- The GP mart near Jon and Courtney's place
- The Red Robin General Store in Mt Evelyn has been Jamin and Julie's local milk bar for the last 11 years.
- In Luanda, down on the corner, you can get anything you want- well, within reason.
- Our local milk bar, in an inner-city Rigan basement, sells the usual bread and milk. I always feel a bit nervous and very sad when I go there - because it's also the local speak-easy, where you can get 100 grams of vodka, day or night. I have gone down to get milk at 8am to see clean-cut businessmen chugging down their shots with fruit juice chasers. Once I even watched our local garbage truck driver - stop the truck outside and pop in for his morning vodka before revving up the truck and continuing his rounds...
The milk bar with alcohol must be a given in all of eastern Europe. I remember being shocked when I first saw news stands in Ukraine that sold a range of vodka and beer. Then I just got used to it.
We can get beer just about anywhere here, including our corner store. It is usually the white people living here who buy it, I have never since an Indonesian buy beer.
We stopped into that Riga shop often when we lived on Blaumanu street, and yup, it was always a sad sight. I think the most traumatic for me was seeing the vodka shots going down with chasers of Kefirs. How to even describe Kefirs? Regardless, it just does not seem right to use dairy products that help calm an upset stomach as chasers....
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