The market here is fascinating. The prices are all the same at each stall so I guess it just comes down to who you want to buy from and what produce looks more appetizing. We walked there from our building, through little streets and bought a bunch of essentials, like oil, butter, eggs and a bunch of beans. The vegetables and fruit all look beautiful and fresh and are quite hard to resist. Buying groceries in this country is fascinating. Prices are fixed but sometimes it will be in pesos and other times in CUCs, depending what kind of store you are in. The market stalls are all in pesos and los shoppings are in CUCs. Buying things in CUCs makes everything more expensive, but the only places to find certain things like butter, cheese, oils are in the shoppings and so we end paying in CUCs. Other things like eggs, which our project coordinator said were really hard to find, have been relatively easy to find and are quite inexpensive. We paid 30 pesos, one dollar and a few cents for 20 beautiful looking eggs. Two huge avocados cost less than one dollar. A massive mango costs less than 50 cents. Life is good. Greens and grapes are the most expensive things I have seen yet. It was the hottest time of the day to go shopping and within a few minutes we were all melting. It was pleasant for the simple fact that we weren’t being harrassed to buy everything. The vendors weren’t in the least bit pushy. We finally found some spices, so our meals will have a little extra kick now. The thing I have yet to see is pure flour so that I can start baking.
I plan on doing some reading today about water purification in rural tropical areas and start learning my stuff for Guantanamo.
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