Down to the animal shelter charity shop with the plastic supermarket bags we've been saving. If they don't have to buy the bags for people's purchases they ccan buy more dog food for the rescued dogs. We also have an Ian Rankin novel and a couple of items of clothing to donate, as we weed out our winter's possessions with our two small suitcases in mind.
We're early for our coffee date with Maggi, so poke around the Saturday market first. Heaps of oranges gleaming in the sun, deep purple aubergines, ripe tomatoes and dark green cucumbers, brilliant lemons. It's a jewel toned market. Some exotica as well, at least by Canadian standards. Artichokes are now in season, adding their green tulip shapes, and there ae plastic boxes of snails, sustained by a leaf or two as they await their fates. Then Greek coffee in the sun outside the café with Maggi, who has biked over. Sketo - one of our few Greek words - without sugar. Each cup individually brewed in a tiny long handled metal pot known as a briki, heated three times almost to the point of boiling, traditionally on hot sand. And, oddly enough, costing half the price of Nescafé.
We're early for our coffee date with Maggi, so poke around the Saturday market first. Heaps of oranges gleaming in the sun, deep purple aubergines, ripe tomatoes and dark green cucumbers, brilliant lemons. It's a jewel toned market. Some exotica as well, at least by Canadian standards. Artichokes are now in season, adding their green tulip shapes, and there ae plastic boxes of snails, sustained by a leaf or two as they await their fates. Then Greek coffee in the sun outside the café with Maggi, who has biked over. Sketo - one of our few Greek words - without sugar. Each cup individually brewed in a tiny long handled metal pot known as a briki, heated three times almost to the point of boiling, traditionally on hot sand. And, oddly enough, costing half the price of Nescafé.
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