Wednesday 8 November
A slow start today, as Skipper is now going down with a version of the ‘lurgy’ as well, so Mate relaxed with a magazine – in order to add it to the recycling, and reduce my internal load – all very virtuous. She cooked a peculiar cheese pie-type dish for lunch, with a big pile of salad to compensate for the calories in the melted Camembert with red onion chutney baked in gluten free puff pastry…a bit of overkill on a fragile appetite, methinks.
To ward off the inevitable slump, they wrapped up warm again and headed over the bridge into town to make good on some more of Mate’s research. They found an incredibly well-stocked mini supermarket, Mabrouk on the Botermarkt, and passed a happy hour browsing a huge range of ingredients and products. Then they followed the map around the block to the supermarket: albert heijn (a distinctive ‘ah’ white on turquoise), already familiar from Rotterdam and pretty good for the essentials on their list. By now it was dark and the interesting shops had closed, so for interest they found a different route home.