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Collecting

From

Overseas

One of the things that makes bottle
colleting even more challenging to
me nowadays, other than the fact
that there is barely anybody left who
collects what I collect, is the fact
that we moved overseas. Picking up
stuff I’m after overseas is virtually
impossible, mostly due to the fact
that I’m looking for old stuff.

However, picking up other minis
overseas is a whole different
ballgame, and the selection, the
prices and the accessibility is
incredible.

Israelis travel. A lot. And due to that
fact, there’s a huge competition
between the airlines and the
booking agencies, which lowers the
cost to travel to a floor price. How
low? It can be as low as US$30 for
a roundtrip from Tel Aviv to Athens
Greece; US$60 for a roundtrip from
Tel Aviv to Berlin; and US$100 for a
roundtrip to Cyprus and the list goes
on. To put things in proportion, I
paid US$285 for my roundtrip flight
from Atlanta to St. Louis…

That’s as far as geographical
accessibility goes, what about liquor
accessibility? Let’s just say that the
ATF in the US should learn a thing
or two from the Europeans. Liquor
stores, grocery stores, flea markets,
supermarkets, mom and pop shops,
gas stations, newsstands – you

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