Our weekly outing to the grocery store. May become biweekly as the produce truck seems to have stopped its rounds. Biweekly probably also simpler if we switch to bottled water. We have been boiling water and have had no problems, but locals seem to feel bottled is safer, though without being able to point to any specific toxin that would not be removed by boiling.
Not much of an outing either as it’s only a three minute walk. One of the ex-pats reports being stopped by police and told she had to go to her nearest supermarket rather than the larger one she was heading for. She not best pleased as her local didn’t have many of the things she wanted.
Ours not the widest range of choice either, but certainly possible. Maybe a question of reduced expectations. Last time the veg and oranges were loose but now in bags. Sizes vary a bit - from fewer carrots and onions than we might have chosen to family size bags of potatoes - well probably no more than five kilos so they will get eaten. As always in Cyprus local, with the earth still on them.
The remaining German in intensive care has died. Now down to 46 active cases in the TRNC; 45 Turkish Cypriots and 1 unspecified “other”. Not a tourist, either, as that would have been specified. Possibly a foreign worker or student.
Could take the rubbish and throw it in the skip a few metres down the lane, but why not save some of the outside excitement for another day.
Not much of an outing either as it’s only a three minute walk. One of the ex-pats reports being stopped by police and told she had to go to her nearest supermarket rather than the larger one she was heading for. She not best pleased as her local didn’t have many of the things she wanted.
Ours not the widest range of choice either, but certainly possible. Maybe a question of reduced expectations. Last time the veg and oranges were loose but now in bags. Sizes vary a bit - from fewer carrots and onions than we might have chosen to family size bags of potatoes - well probably no more than five kilos so they will get eaten. As always in Cyprus local, with the earth still on them.
The remaining German in intensive care has died. Now down to 46 active cases in the TRNC; 45 Turkish Cypriots and 1 unspecified “other”. Not a tourist, either, as that would have been specified. Possibly a foreign worker or student.
Could take the rubbish and throw it in the skip a few metres down the lane, but why not save some of the outside excitement for another day.