CHEESE, GAS REFILLS and the WIND WI-FI PACKAGE, 11 – 13 June,
Days 48 - 50
Living in any place for a few weeks allows one to have new or
different food experiences. We love cheese and we have taken to eating two
types here in Sicily. Living in Malta we are used to cheese pastizzi filled
with ricotta, but we did not image that we would be buying fresh ricotta here
and just eating it cold with salads, bread, biscuits etc. To me ricotta was
something to cook with, and we just didn’t buy it. Now we love it and it is
such good value at under 5 euros a kilo.
Visitors to Italy like us are used to Parmisan cheese to
grate over a hot pasta dish, or even to buy ready grated. It is a tangy hard
cheese. Here we find many hard tangy cheeses and at under 8 euros a kilo we are
buying Grana Padano, and slicing it for salads and sandwiches. It is delicious.
Italy is a tomato producer and when we find tomatoes which
smell good, we love to eat them with fresh basil leaves. We have three good
supermarkets in Marina di Ragusa but apart from a small weekly market we don’t find
good supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables, and sadly some of the tomatoes
are tasteless, and some cucumbers even taste bad. Anita describes them as
“grown with chemicals”. We choose what we enjoy, and actually have started to
drink regularly diluted apple cider vinegar before meals, which Dr Lidia in
Malta had recommended to me a few years ago.
The week started calm and we put up the full cockpit waning
to provide welcome shade. Happenings away from here caused some ongoing worry,
especially as a money transfer from about three weeks ago appeared to be lost
and the transferee company claiming it had not been received. Their bank also
reported on enquiry a different amount credited from that sent. Worries drain
energy and leave us just wanting to relax.
Strong west winds are forecast from Wednesday for a few days
as we await the new motor, and have to find a weather window to depart and get
round the corner to the less windy East coast of Sicily to start our journey to
Greece, so we took down the awning and made things secure on deck.
The other wind in our minds is the WIND Giga International wi-fi
package so we went inland to Ragusa to fill two gas bottles and visit the
proper WIND telecoms shop and get proper advice which the local telecoms shop
Video Piu had failed miserable to achieve, as they sell products from various
mobile companies alongside scented candles. They do not have the training and
knowledge to service our needs and were keen to deny the existence of the
package we finally took today instead selling us a TIM package which is
absolutely not right for our needs of internet wi-fi when in other countries.
Our WIND wi-fi is working, and thanks to sailing friends who
are using it abroad at 20 GB a month and who guided us past the bad advice from
Video Piu.
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