Sunday, 19 February 2017

Saturday, February 18/2017

Under the impression that this is a long weekend, with Monday being Green (or clean) Monday in the Orthodox calendar. So three grocery stops. First at Saris, probably the most local of the supermarkets and usually the best prices. Not especially bilingual, and sometimes the translations are not so much inaccurate as unfortunate. Thus the food freezer includes meat labelled "rabbit carcass frozen". No doubt. 

First suspicion that this is not Green Monday weekend dawns at Prinos Greengrocer, which is not, as one would have expected, unusually busy. Humus, onions, potatoes, oranges, tomatoes, bananas, carrots, and a very small cauliflower for a grand total of €3.50 ($4.88 CAD, £3). All local and fresh. Google Green Monday (a moveable feast as it signals the beginning of Orthodox Lent) when we get home and find it's next week. Well, we won't go hungry.