Day 2 Sleep was disturbed by the farm waking up. The dog barking at the rooster calling for the dawn. The kids stirred from their slumber and demanded breakfast. Tania the ever loyal hostess bowed to their very request and provided the adults with a cup of fresh coffee. We were up early, not only for the fact we had been woken by the animals, but because Yuliya’s brother Sergei was arriving with his family on the 8am train from Minsk. They would be spending a week with us on the farm. When I first met Sergei I was intimidated by him. He is only a couple of years older than yuliya and was a colonel at a nuclear missile base in the forests near the European border. He gave out the impression that he disliked
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