Find we are calling the supermarkets we frequent by names they went by in the past. Sign of age - ours not the world’s? Probably not. Rachel, still in her teens then, used to complain that people in Sioux Lookout regularly referred to business establishments by names they had possessed in the past, sometimes the distant past, leaving her with no idea where they meant. So we find ourselves talking about Carrefour - as it was - rather than Sklavenitis as it now is. Carrefour, of course, a more familiar company and easier to say - to say nothing of spell. And that’s without involving the Greek alphabet, where it would be written as Σκλαβεm. We read Greek about as slowly as a kindergarten child sounding out words and preferring all capital letters - although with some degree of success in guessing meaning once deciphered. And our preferred supermarket is still known to us as Elephant, as we remember when it rejoiced in the name of The Elephant Store. Locals our age probably still call it Sarris after a previous owner.
Noting on our way out that the preponderance of rectangular white buildings with flat roofs is somewhat reminiscent of the architecture in childhood picture books of Biblical stories, although not nearly as strikingly so as in the white city of Amman, Jordan. Well, served the same purpose in much of the Middle East. Missing in ancient times were the large, if ugly, water storage tanks and the much more recent solar panels.