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Sunday, 24 May 2020

Sunday, May 24/2020


Ramazan Bayramı today. And very quiet. Families must be inside celebrating and the shops are almost all shut, sort of like Christmas Day at home. We go for a walk around six. Restaurants closed. One café open as well as the pastry place down near the port wall. They have a café inside where you can have coffee as well as their pastries and a shop attached that sells pastries and sweets. We don’t  go in but they seem to have a number of customers including some on their upstairs balcony. Social distancing really does discourage browsing. If you’re mostly window shopping without expecting to be all that tempted you’re using a serious customer’s time and space.