Saturday, December 19/2009

Market morning. Start with Cypriot coffee with M&M. Maggi full of spillover news forgotten at our Wednesday night meeting, including the sad news that our hotel, the Kition, is apparently to be demolished. Prices seem up a bit - or is it just our fading memories? Buy 6 eggs from the egg lady's daughter, as well as broccoli, tomatoes, mushrooms, tiny potatoes, carrots and a large bag of oranges (53 actually!), the last for a euro seventy.

Still stocking up with basic supplies as well as for christmas, we go shopping in the afternoon as well. First stop the Polski sklep (shop). J finds a bottle of black currant syrup - though he would rather have had cherry. Smart Store for liquor. Unfortunately the liquor sales are all in the lead up to Christmas and New Year, so we have to guess what we're likely to use in the next 3 months in order to take advantage of the special prices. So we acquire a litre of Famous Grouse whiskey for nine euros ninety (15.15 CAD or 8.80 GB) as well as a local apricot liqueur and a domestic liqueur intriguingly entitled Scotish Legend. The spelling makes it clear that it's no Highland import, but it's cheap enough that we buy it hoping for a palatable Drambuie knock off. No such luck. It turns out later to be an undistinguished but drinkable Cypriot brandy style drink. Mark down a litre bottle of vodka at 6 euros for later collection when we're not carrying so much.