One Mornings 'Shopping'...

In more 'advanced' countries one shops online.  Here we 'shop'  at the cafeteria with a cup of coffee, pleasant company, hopefully in the warm sun and everything is brought to our table

The first black olives for salting.

A handful for K to salt.  Given to us by the cafe owner who had picked a few from his early producing olive tree

Ouzo meze

After the coffee comes more serious business

Lottery seller

Fig and tomato preserve

These were brought to us to try and inevitably to take home.

The figs preserved in syrup will go into fruit cakes.  The tomato preserves for all their sugar still tasted like tomatoes.  They will go into a fruit cake too, cut into tiny pieces.  I'm sure anyone who notices will think it's a cherry in their cake. Sticky sweet preserves are not my favourite.

Small fish for frying whole

They are eaten whole too.

Open your mouth and down it goes

We ordered these from the fish market.  Today's catch.

At home they will go straight into the flour and the frying pan 

Fresh from the fishing boat which came in an hour ago

Homemade raki

Dropped off by a neighbour who sat down a few tables away and remembered he owed us some of his own distillation

A bag of pistachio nuts and a few lemons

Another friend had just arrived for a coffee after watering his lemon trees on a small plot on the mainland

This morning's loaf.  Sourdough still warm from the baker's oven.

Wrapped in paper so it doesn't sweat