The tiny bird, which we still can’t identify comes back to the roof tiles with wisps of nest building material in its beak, but doesn’t head straight to the home tile. Instead it makes a pretence of investigating other tiles and showing no interest in the home one for some time before heading inside to the nest. Interesting, as few would be predators could fit through the tiny opening anyway.
Quick trip to the little shop. Lots of eggs this time, some in cartons and others loose in a pail, as was sometimes the case in the South, usually at very small shops or markets. Much more fragile to carry, though - loose in a plastic bag - so we choose a carton of six, an option more common in Europe than North America, where the price would usually be well over half that for a dozen if it were available at all.
Pick up a bottle of Moldovan Cabernet Sauvignon. Pretty cheap and still not worth it. Hard to predict, though. The Turkish cabernet that was in the fridge when we arrived was quite nice. Remember being in a supermarket in Turkey about twenty years ago. We were astonished to find that the prices on the shelf were all electronic. You could actually watch a price change as you stood there. Turned out the reason was not an addiction to high tech but a currency that was devaluing so quickly that it was impossible to keep up by changing price signs manually. Not a lot better now. When we arrived three and a half weeks ago the exchange rate was 6.97 Turkish lira to a euro. Now 7.28. The shop will take either and is fair about the exchange. Change in lira.
Quick trip to the little shop. Lots of eggs this time, some in cartons and others loose in a pail, as was sometimes the case in the South, usually at very small shops or markets. Much more fragile to carry, though - loose in a plastic bag - so we choose a carton of six, an option more common in Europe than North America, where the price would usually be well over half that for a dozen if it were available at all.
Pick up a bottle of Moldovan Cabernet Sauvignon. Pretty cheap and still not worth it. Hard to predict, though. The Turkish cabernet that was in the fridge when we arrived was quite nice. Remember being in a supermarket in Turkey about twenty years ago. We were astonished to find that the prices on the shelf were all electronic. You could actually watch a price change as you stood there. Turned out the reason was not an addiction to high tech but a currency that was devaluing so quickly that it was impossible to keep up by changing price signs manually. Not a lot better now. When we arrived three and a half weeks ago the exchange rate was 6.97 Turkish lira to a euro. Now 7.28. The shop will take either and is fair about the exchange. Change in lira.