Wednesday, midweek lottery of the shopping trip. Long sweet red peppers are in, a definite buy. No eggs, but we’re good until Saturday. We’re not out of crunchy peanut butter but they’re down to one jar so we get it. We probably already ate the others, although their initial supply can’t have been in anticipation of our arrival. Acquire a litre of cold pressed extra virgin olive oil. More than we would have paid in Canada but that’s always true in Cyprus. Possibly less likely to have lied about the provenance? The treat - a bottle of gin. Pay a bit more than the sale sign round its neck but quite a lot less than we would have done in Canada. Paid in euros today as we don’t have many Turkish lira left. The official exchange rate (the one no one ever actually gets) is now 7.49 to the euro. But only three weeks ago it was 6.99. So the shop is working on 7 TL to the euro as it was then, and hard to blame them. They’ve scarcely paid for their stock when the currency devalues. Bread at the shop pretty good, and no mistakes now I know how to read whole wheat in Turkish. Not nearly as good as the lovely warm, fragrant round loaf of olive bread that the kind neighbour across the road gave us, though!
Two of the people under observation in the TRNC following return flights have developed covid-19. On the other hand eight of those who were infected have recovered and were released today. This brings the country total of active cases down to 27, so the strictness of the lockdown may be having an effect.
No earthshaking events during lockdown. Though actually three earthquakes today - 4.2, 4.7 and 4.4 magnitude. Actually 10 km depth just off the coast of Syria, near Latakia, but the distance between Latakia and the Karpas peninsula is only about 110 km. Didn’t feel anything here though.
Two of the people under observation in the TRNC following return flights have developed covid-19. On the other hand eight of those who were infected have recovered and were released today. This brings the country total of active cases down to 27, so the strictness of the lockdown may be having an effect.
No earthshaking events during lockdown. Though actually three earthquakes today - 4.2, 4.7 and 4.4 magnitude. Actually 10 km depth just off the coast of Syria, near Latakia, but the distance between Latakia and the Karpas peninsula is only about 110 km. Didn’t feel anything here though.