Saturday, January 3/2014

Odd period from Christmas to Epiphany. It's 13 days, but three of them are holidays and two are Sundays. Some businesses close Boxing Day and some, more surprisingly, on January 2. Hangover day? Prinos, our greengrocer, was one of the latter. And there seem to be shops that simply close for the whole period. After all, how many people are likely to have paintings framed between Christmas Eve and January 6?

Down to the coffee shop by St Lazarus where we meet up with Maggi and Maxi for our regular Saturday coffee. Maxi a much more relaxed dog than she was a year ago when M first got her and content to lie beneath a chair watching the passers by. Looks like rain and as we leave Prinos on the way back it starts. Not far to go by that point, though, and J has an enormous bag of enormous fresh juicy pink grapefruit for €2 (£0.78, $2.80 CAD).