Friday, 22 January 2016

Wednesday, January 20/2016


800 gram cauliflower


Coffee at Harry's about 11:30. Four older men (don't know older than what - not necessarily older than us, but not young) at the next table. They have coffee but also a bottle of something colourless labelled in Greek. Probably zivania, a grape based spirit. Much laughter, and when they're finished the bottle returned to the cafĂ© shelves. Cheerful lifestyle, though as J points out the women don't seem to have nearly such a relaxed life. 

Carrefour and Prinos for fruit and veg. Incredibly lucky to be here strawberries are fresh. In fact I never by fruit that has no scent. Same rule at home, but in SL that leaves us with a much narrower range - mostly bananas and grapes. Here even the carrots smell like carrots. Tiny tomatoes, and cauliflower. The latter 69 euro cents per kilo today (52p, $1.06 CAD). That's 48 cents a pound in Canada. We've been reading stories about $8 heads of cauliflower in Canada. Of course that isn't a kilo price. Maybe they're enormous....Maybe aye and maybe hooch aye, my Scots grandmother would have said skeptically.