Yesterday was quite a dramatic day with thunder storms occurring randomly throughout the day. It was impossible to guess when they would start or when they would end.
Trapped in the car as we waited for the storm to pass over!
The scene as we waited for a dry moment to run into the market.
During our shopping trip we found Hilde and Yens in this ferry ticket office/cafenion.
As usual the "No smoking" sign on the wall is countered by ashtrays on the tables!
Juliana and I shopped for dinner ingredients and spent part of the afternoon in the underground kitchen...chopping and refining the evening's meal. Tables were set for 18 guests. Our ethnic meal included tabouli, Moroccan chickpeas and curried eggplant mixed veggies.
Miraculously there was enough food for everyone to enjoy a full plate of mixed flavours.
We raised glasses to toast my sister Dorothy on her birthday!
These meals offer the opportunity to share time with people from around the world. It is wonderful to hear the variety and lilt of different languages. At one end of the gathering I could hear Dutch and occasional Flemish interrupted by a few German words. Two guests tried to be heard in French while our host chatted in Greek with a friend. Everyone speaks English!
Theo, our host, in a meditative moment.
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