- We headed up the street to our local stationery shop to buy some envelopes. At a local stationers, you don't buy packets of envelopes, you ask for the exact amount of envelopes that you'd like - five small envelopes and one slightly bigger one.
- After continuing via a cash point, we bumped into an English friend on the street. We love that we regularly run into people we know in our local area!
- Next stop was the small bakers to pick up some poğaca as a snack for the park. Poğaca is a type of savoury bread/pastry that can be found at every bakery here. It's traditionally eaten at breakfast time, or as an afternoon snack - or pretty much at any time really - and goes really well with a glass of Turkish tea. They often come with different fillings (soft Turkish cheese, slightly harder Turkish cheese, black olives, etc.) or can be plain.
- Once we had our poğaca it was only a few minutes walk to the park. As it's the middle of winter, the park (more a playground to be honest, as there's no grass to play on) was fairly empty. A little girl and her grandfather were feeding the pigeons so J gleefully chased and scattered all the birds that had gathered to eat.
- And via a very quick trip into a tiny supermarket, we headed (very slowly) home for lunch.
After various coughs, colds etc. we're enjoying getting out and about again. Or rather, the boys have not yet fully got rid of their colds but we've all got cabin fever so we're returning to routine and going out to the park anyway. I'm currently ignoring all the comments made by random people who look at S and say he's ill, because he has a runny nose!
Poğaca - yum! Although this photo makes them look giant, when they're not *that* big
