Haircuts for both of us, at the same little place we've been going to for the last seventeen years. If it has a name, we don't know it, but they don't make appointments. You just show up and wait if the queue doesn't seem too long. Usually find that bringing a book I really want to read means I get taken quickly.
Then walk down the crooked little street that used to be home to a number of artisans working in front of their shops in a communal arrangement that may well be centuries old. But this year most of the shops are padlocked and the street seems to be turning into cafés and boutiques. Attractive, but a loss of living history. Two shops seem still to be functioning. In one a man is making chairs, while across the road two men are heating a metal rod in a small forge. So the traditions are not quite dead.
J collects his watch. Ten euros and an explanation - the previous inner works were not quite the right size but this will be perfect. J not entirely happy, as the watchmaker had previously charged €10 for the works he is now disparaging. No mention then of their being the wrong size.
Our regular coffee spot is across the road and this is our first time this season. But we're greeted with a smile as regulars. Sketo (sugarless)? Good memory!
Andreas Apostolos Taverna for dinner with B&J, Harry and Ailsa. Good food and indecently massive portions. Always less problematic when with H&A as they have so many rescue animals that the leftovers needn't be wasted, even less attractive ones like chips or rice. Relaxed, if fairly noisy, Cypriot hospitality. Bill comes to €68 ($102 CAD, £60) for six of us. Includes more than we can eat, beer or wine, and the fruit, small pastries and Greek coffee that are gratis after we've paid. And, as in most places outside Canada, tax already figured in. Everyone stops at our place briefly to admire the new flat, but mindful of a previous occasion when we all piled into the lift which promptly died (thoroughly, repairman required) we go in two lots. Quite sure we weren't over the posted weight warning last time, but....
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