Eid in much of the Muslim world, known as Bayram in Turkish. Both words mean festival and the difference is etymological. Eid is Arabic and Bayram Persian in origin. The end of Ramadan is marked by a feast day. Actually according to Islam it is wrong to fast on Bayram and we’re happy to conform.
Despite tradition, it’s not a sunny day. Storms continue to cross the Mediterranean so we stay home and make chili and cheese biscuits (undoubtedly not traditional but good rainy day fare). Cheese biscuits a bit of a challenge as the last of the baking powder went into yesterday’s rock cakes. So baking soda should work as long as there is enough acid in the mixture. Internet highly dubious but my guess is that if the liquid is sour milk that should do it, and we do have vinegar. Might not publish the recipe, but not bad.
Have, over the past years, stayed in a number of places less well designed as retreats from the rain. Think, for example of the one room cabin inside the old city walls in Rhodes. The kitchen, such as it was, was a bit of a lean-to. Beside, but not quite attached to, the room in which we slept. Not bad in dry weather but did mean ducking through rain to enter it on wet days. But that was twenty-five years ago - we were young!
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