Thursday, January 20, 2011

Mi piso, prices of things

That means apartment, or flat (floor). Loli finally arrived back home, and she is indeed truly lovely. She is almost never without Marie Carmen. They work together, in real estate, and Marie Carmen is "family" of some sort. They are in quite a few pictures together. Yesterday they offered me two small curled up, deep fried, whole fish that they'd made for lunch, and a glass of wine. The fish were excellent and because I am used to asian deep fried prawns, I ate the entire thing, head, bones and all, and was later told I should not have done so. I really didn't notice any bones as when they are deep fried, it doesn't matter. I said I thought it was Calcium and she said, but it goes like this in your stomach, and made a circling motion.

The hot water problem has nothing to do with Loli being stingy. It is simply a matter of poor water pressure. I learned last summer that the wall mounted hot water heater in every kitchen doesn't fire up if you only turn the tap on a little bit. So when the heat gets turned up a lot, somehow the pressure goes down... hmmm that is not really logical. Anyways this particular building, at least on its 3rd floor, has poor pressure, and so we can't have very hot water.

The price of food in Sevilla is about the same as at home. I'd say both groceries and eating out. Possibly breakfast in a cafe is cheaper: you get a coffee and sandwich with ham for E2.50, which would be ... wow, it took me a few minutes to do some really wrong math in my head (am losing it)... somewhere around $3.80. The price of apartments is from E130,000 to E230,000, with most of them being in the lower part of the range. That is one bedroom.

But there are some other things that are notably cheaper, such as haircuts, which I still haven't managed to get, and keep looking at every peluqueria that I pass. They are about E10 - E16, in most places. Here, cheap clothing seems even more plentiful than at home. Before I left, I made sure I had some leggings for dancing, but I couldn't get any for less than $30, so I made them. Here, I just bought some for E3. There was something else (besides wine) but I can't think of it right now.

There are some really old fashioned ways that are cute. I bought some socks at a sock and underwear shop. The man wrapped them in a piece of brown paper that had his name and the shop address on it: it said "so and so, corseteria y calzatura (or whatever socks are called)"
It is a weird exception here if you pick your own fruit and vegetables when you are shopping. Normally you ask the guy behind his fruit, for what you want. If it is something soft, he/she makes a cone out of stiff paper and puts your strawberries or figs in that, and closes the top. The meat shop too, wrapped my breaded chicken in paper, with a fancy kind of folding to totally close it up, so I couldn't replicate it.

Other stuff... words that are parecido to ours: una novella de intrigue, la farmacia, una cafeteria. By the way, the most beautiful farmacy you will ever see is in Triana.

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