The little shop in our yard

We are so pleased that shopping for the basics is very easy for us here. We don't have a car and so we have to walk and carry everything home in bags. Quite by accident, we found a tiny little shop in the yard of our apartment block. It looks like a garage/shed and we wouldn't have much need to walk that way, except that one day we noticed a couple of young girls walking towards us with plastic bags of fresh fruit and veg. When we asked where they had bought their goods they pointed out this obscure little shop. It's one of our favourite little haunts now!

 

And the people are incredibly friendly. It's a family business with a number of young people manning it most of the time.

Ayka is always SO enthusiastic about our visits and asked for this photo on Day 2. Ayka's English is excellent and she loves to try to teach me Russian. I love to try to learn. So far I have mastered the numbers from 1 - 10, some greetings and quite a lot of the letters of their cyrillic alphabet. I can pronounce lots of words but have no idea what most of them mean, but its fun trying to sound them out.

And Ayka's brother Kuba was pretty keen to have his pic taken with David too. When we had these photos printed and gave them to the young people they were SO happy. They were really interested in kangaroos, as is just about anyone we talk with here. I gave Ayka a card I had made with a photo of two kangaroos. She was thrilled and showed it to all of her family.

This little (VERY little) shop is no bigger than most single car garages in Australia. Here one can buy bottled water, milk, juice and soft drink, fresh bread and baked goods, frozen meats and icecreams, cheese, butter, processed meats, all sorts of sweet treats and, most importantly, fresh fruit and veg. Not a lot we can't buy here.

We're so thankful to have such a great little shop so close by with such friendly owners. We enjoy their company and they enjoy ours and we have occasion to see them most days of the week. One of the many pluses of living here.