Thursday is municipal market day in Gazimağusa. A moveable feast as it was in Girne yesterday and will move on to Lefkoşa by the weekend. The purpose built building is enormous, with high roof and open sides - shaded but good air flow. Practically everything but meat for sale (and there is a fish truck outside). Fruit and vegetables, helim (halloumi), olives, eggs, dried fruit, nuts. But also clothing, fabric, and minor hardware. Our main problem is avoiding buying too much - we only have another week here, and in any case our cooking facilities are pretty limited. The new gas cooker is fine but we have one medium sized pot and a pretty flimsy frying pan and no desire to purchase more at this point. 
Note calculator in left hand, cigarette in right 🙄
Start with a a fair sized bag of freshly ground coffee. We’ve bought this here before and it was excellent. Then aubergines, tomatoes, onions, little cucumbers, courgettes, a couple of carrots, a few mushrooms. And also sweet green grapes and mandarin oranges. The grape season is just ending, the orange season beginning. And are persuaded - pretty easily - to add dried apricots and figs.
On the way home stop at supermarket and notice that aubergines that were 15 Turkish lira a kilo ($1.07 CAD, €0.78, £0.68) are 10tl here. But market ones much nicer and difference unlikely to affect the quality of our retirement.
Today’s bonus: announced six hour power cut did not occur, making up for Monday’s unannounced outage.
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