Seems government offices, banks and schools are closed for the holiday. Shops are open, with the odd exception of chemists. Though admittedly on Sundays when the supermarkets are all functioning only the duty chemist in each area remains open.
No need for a pharmacy but pop down to our little local supermarket. No warm sourdough bread straight out of the oven but we do find an enormous dark green bunch of celery for 49 lira (€1.30, £1.08, $1.96 CAD). No easy way to predict prices. Celery is local but so are potatoes which cost more than they would at home, although they are much nicer. Imports tend to be fairly pricey but Italian wine more than reasonable, which is probably a question of tax.
Delighted to see the man who owns the orchard immediately opposite us back again. For the first few days we neither saw our neighbour nor heard his goat. Had assumed the goat had met the fate for which it was being bred. But then we began to hear it bleating. Encouraging but still no sign of the owner, who was previously in the habit of spending several hours a day tending his grounds. Had begun to wonder if he were ill or even had died. He’s not young. And, had he died, there was the additional unhappy possibility that his heirs, not equally addicted to gardening, might sell the property to developers happy to erect high rise apartments. So for selfish as well as benign reasons we’re pleased to see him back at his labours.
Closed govt schools banks chemists
Orchard goat