I have boat chores to do, but I’m saving them for the rainy days. Laundry gets done early on the sunny days; the marina does have a dryer but I’d rather use the sun and avoid lines at the laundry room. Grocery shopping is a sunny day activity when we use the motorbike. Inside dusting and vacuuming will just have to wait. Sunday, Monday as well as today were sunny so we were out and about.
Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving tomorrow back at home. Lots of food and football. We’re getting together with Bill and Judy for chicken and cornbread stuffing and roasted vegetable and some local treats. In the morning I’m going to do another load of laundry early and then take Randal off for a walk so we’ll deserve Thanksgiving dinner. But no wine for me. After a two for one happy hour here tonight on an empty stomach, I’m going to be tea totaling for a bit.
Ru
Cyprus Sunday and Monday
This past Sunday was sunny so we took Bill and Judy for a walk up to “our” basilica.
You get a better idea of the place with people in it.
According to the leaflet we got from the little boy, parts are still buried and there are no funds at this point for further excavation. There won’t ever be enough money if they rely on a small boy and smaller puppy to collect entrance fees.
Bill and Judy from the sailing vessel BeBe
Bill in the stone basin in the baptismal chamber.
The little boy and puppy and an older brother came again with handouts for Bill, Judy and Randal. Bill gave him some lira coins. Randal only had a twenty TL note so told me to trade the 20 for the coins. It took a bit of persuading but finally the boy saw it was a better deal to give me the 5 coins and take the 20 TL paper. We will all save our leaflets to prove we paid once so we shouldn’t have to pay again. Since it was about my 7th time there I guess paying once is fair. (Today on my walk I saw and adult “official” asleep in the booth at the entrance to the small area.
Market Day in Yeni Erenkoy
Monday is market day in the local town. We first made a stop at the local Turkcell shop to get our Cyprus SIM phone card and some minutes. There was no real hope for the Turkish SIM card and the 50 TL we had on each phone. Maybe we’ll revisit Turkey before our minutes run out in January and our Turkish VISA that we needed for our one night in Istanbul on the way back to Cyprus runs out in February.
Lots of lovely fruit and veggies.
Local families were shopping as well as many British and German xPats.
Household goods and some clothing were for sale.
The market was much smaller than Famagusta but just 10 minutes down the road. Famagusta is over an hour by local bus for just about the same things.
Randal tries to load the two loaves of bread into our front basket.
It’s a wonder we got everything back to the boat. We didn’t bring our panniers because we only needed to do a little shopping. But when you see all the beautiful fruit and veggies and the great bread, you go a little crazy.
The two rounded loaves that together are about the size of a basketball.
This loaf is olive bread complete with pits!
While I was buying fruit Randal was buying bread and since it all looked great he bought two loaves.
We returned from the market and I quickly put together a picnic and off we went for a walk and lunch north of the marina.
Cyprus has a beautiful shoreline and a great spot for a picnic just a 30 minute walk down the road.
There is a huge mound of porous rock and we walked to the top for lunch.
Randal looks so tiny but is only about a 3 minute walk from where I’m taking the photo.
Cheese, salami and tomato on some of our new bread. I’d also spread some mayo and about a teaspoon of spicy pepper spread onto the sandwich. Randal had bought a jar of the spread at the market thinking it was sundried tomatoes. I ate some of our left-over chicken instead.
Then it was time to head on back to the marina.
Unfortunately there’s no path along the water and we had to walk back to the road to return to the marina.
Walking back to the main road from our picnic spot.