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Friday, 1 March 2024

Friday, March 1/2024




Courtesy LGC News

The price of bread will rise tomorrow from 13.5 lira to 15 (€0.44, £0.38, $0.68 CAD). It’s government controlled and applies to the most basic loaf of (white) bread available. The olive sourdough baguettes and whole wheat with rye loaves we buy would be between three and four times that price and are not subject to government controls. Ten kilo cylinders of gas for cooking, also government regulated, have just gone up from 390 lira to 415 lira (€12.20, £10.45, $17.93 CAD), the second increase in three weeks. Don’t know how long a cylinder lasts, but must be quite a while because we have been using our present one since we came here 

and last year we didn’t in two and a half months finish the one that was in place when we arrived. 


In the afternoon our regular stroll down to the Blue Song. Warm enough for short sleeves sitting outside, but windy, especially by the sea.