More or less the last day of getting restocked, although with a half sized fridge, limited cupboard space and an endless supply of fresh produce, shopping is more or less daily anyway. We missed the pre-Christmas to New Year liquor and wine sales at the supermarkets, which are usually pretty good, the difficulty being that ideally one should predict consumption through to the beginning of April and stock up. Still, post New Year’s Cyprus remains one of the better countries to buy in. Grant’s triple wood whiskey blend on sale for €7 ($10.64 CAD, £6.30) for a 70 cl bottle. Not that one wishes to become alcoholic simply because it would be inexpensive to do so.
Always some entertainment value to shopping as well. Looking at the various jars of honey, I’m puzzled by “theme” honey. And spend a few seconds wondering what the theme might be, until it occurs to me that the intended word is almost certainly thyme. Paused yesterday over “backed” beans, but clearly that was baked. My previous favourite was self raisin flour. But actually we’re pretty lucky in the larger stores that they make any effort at all to put it in English. The alternative is the chancy judging by the picture, which can be quite misleading.
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