Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/08/25

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Subject: [Leica] Baku teeth, tea, and a girl
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:00:12 +0530
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Nice one
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Matt Kollasch <narbutta17 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> When walking Sovetskaya district (where the houses are being razed) I came
> across a common sight: men drinking tea. This group included the daughter
> of one of the men. They offered me tea from the samovar set up on the
> street amidst the rubble. I accepted and sat down for a bit of rest.
>
> The Azeris often drink their tea with sugar in their teeth and grocery
> stores have huge sections for individually wrapped candy. I was offered
> some of that candy with my tea. In Azerbaijan you see a fair amount of
> people with gold teeth, which I surmise is the result of the combination of
> poor dental hygiene and this penchant for sweets. It may be getting better
> because young adults seem to have better hygiene... and there are many
> stomatology
> (dental ) offices around the city.
>
> The girl in this group of tea drinkers was playing with a magazine, as you
> can see here:
> http://www.kollarfoto.com/lug/2015/8/26/ds0eq7al8h0weho8yuusibupczmnzq
>
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Replies: Reply from photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe) ([Leica] Baku teeth, tea, and a girl)
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