Monday, November 2/2015

Visit to the Turkish shop up Green Lanes Road. Really it's a whole Turkish district - restaurants, greengrocers, barbers, little travel agencies. Our shop looks more like a small warehouse half hidden behind a carpet shop. We're fortunately limited to what we can carry - and more important what we can use in the next two weeks in a room without fridge or cooking facilities. Still a treasure trove. Sundried tomatoes and olives, plump dried figs, roast pepper spread, dried apricots. We can't use the pomegranate syrup here but get a little bottle for Jean. There are boxes of dates, but also packets of dried pears and peppers. Intriguing dried mulberries. Enormous bags of tea leaves and soft red pepper flakes. A happy half hour's browsing.