Starts by looking like rain but improves rapidly, so J, M and I walk down to St Lazarus Church. Our old café (like so many businesses) has disappeared. In fact one shop nearby has closed but still contains some goods on the shelves as well as a large tree inside - presumably once ornamental. The tree has, improbably, continued growing, filling one end of the shop and pushing its way under, over and through the centre of the padlocked doors, looking like something from a horror movie.
The pavement at the far side of St Lazarus Church, traditionally believed to be the burial place of the Biblical Lazarus (crypt there but long since vacated), is furnished with chairs and small tables. The sun reaches the first of the tables just after midday. A lovely warm spot for coffee. For reasons best know to Cypriots the Greek coffee, which is very good is €1, whereas Nescafé is €2.
Stop on the way home at the smaller Orphanides store. Orphanides is an island-wide supermarket chain which has just gone spectacularly bankrupt, sadly for its employees just before Christmas. No one was willing to advance further loans to a company with #250 million in debts, so the survival of some of the suppliers is in question as well. Meanwhile virtually everything is 40% off on the emptying shelves, so M picks up sheets and a duvet cover for her new flat and we a box of Alpen.
The pavement at the far side of St Lazarus Church, traditionally believed to be the burial place of the Biblical Lazarus (crypt there but long since vacated), is furnished with chairs and small tables. The sun reaches the first of the tables just after midday. A lovely warm spot for coffee. For reasons best know to Cypriots the Greek coffee, which is very good is €1, whereas Nescafé is €2.
Stop on the way home at the smaller Orphanides store. Orphanides is an island-wide supermarket chain which has just gone spectacularly bankrupt, sadly for its employees just before Christmas. No one was willing to advance further loans to a company with #250 million in debts, so the survival of some of the suppliers is in question as well. Meanwhile virtually everything is 40% off on the emptying shelves, so M picks up sheets and a duvet cover for her new flat and we a box of Alpen.
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