Well, everyone slept in, at least until the guys came with two trucks of rocks for Jim's new driveway. The driveway is going to be amazing - he is using huge slabs of rock from the North of the island, which these guys will hand fit into a pattern.
Today we walked down to the vegetable mart and bought potatoes, bananas, green beans, fresh butter lettuce (3 heads for 30 Ru/ 1.00 US), grapes, plums and apples. We are eating very well, and no one has gotten sick yet. Of course, we have not yet tried the guys with food on the back of their motorcycles. They are at all the corners, selling. Today one came down our street, blowing a horn, and people came out to buy things from him. It's usually a tortilla-like thing that is then filled with beans or veggies, but sometimes they have buns and other bakery items.
Typical street scene in Quatre Bornes, with a small food vendor there on the left.
A view of the vegetable market.
On the way to the vegetable market, playing tag with the traffic.
Sam has just spotted the bananas. We got a huge bunch of 15 (they are smaller than the ones in the US) for 60 Ru (2.00 US). The herb behind Sam is corrainder - they use a great deal of it here and like to fry it up in wads of deep fried dough with onion and other spices. Interesting taste.
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