Wednesday, January 24/2018

Looks like we're in for a couple of days of intermittent rain. Which it's hard to complain about here, partly because the weather is predominantly fine and partly because the island is chronically short of water, so that the inevitable response to rain by locals is always but we need it. Cyprus has always been dry but climate change has been taking its toll, along with welcome but ecologically damaging tourism and scientists are warning of the dangers of desertification. In the North water is brought from Turkey through underwater pipes. Apparently the North offered to supply water to the South as well but the offer was refused. So we nip over to Prinos before predicted rain begins. Wednesdays fruit and vegetables, which are most of what Prinos sells, are 20% off. The difficulty is never paying for the produce. It's that €3 (£2.64, $4.56 CAD) worth of oranges, grapefruit, courgettes, onions, potatoes and tomatoes is as much as we can carry.