Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Sunday, December 3/2017



Sunday. J checks out Lidl, half a mile down the road and I pick up the Sunday edition of the Cyprus Mail. Extremely thin once tv listings and such removed but ok-ish on local news, though happy to pad with unnecessary international stories. Pretty good puzzle section, and J doesn't compete to nab it. Sadly, the Mail's bravest columnist, Loucas Charlambous, died suddenly in July. We'll miss his opinion pieces. 

Jane calls to see if we want Sunday lunch at Cambanella's, and we do. Take the bus - but it unexpectedly turns off the Dhekelia Road well before we get there. Apparently the road is being resurfaced so there is a diversion. And no real indication of any likelihood of returning to the main route. Kind and helpful intervention on our behalf by a young student, who doesn't speak Greek, with bus driver, who pretty well doesn't speak English. Driver stops at a point where he is about to go further away from the main road and points. There, turn left, 400 metres. He's more or less right, although it's a bit of a walk before we're close enough to recognise landmarks. Four hundred metres rather optimistic, although our orienteering skills may have been a bit rusty. Lovely day, though, and we are on time. Would otherwise have been early. 


After lunch to Jane and Bill's to pick olives. Surprisingly, it seems that the small green ones, which are what the tree produces, are apparently the best for oil. We get 14 litres in a couple of hours. Interestingly, same number of kilos. So the density of olives equals that of water. New bit of trivia.