Settling-in update
- I finally made it out to Saeed's International Market on Ocean Avenue, and was overjoyed to find a reliable source of decent olive oil, linden tea, rosewater, Cafe Najjar with cardamom, red lentils, and various jams (gooseberry, rose hip, fig) not easily findable at the main grocery store. Also baklava and za'atar bread. This made my morning.
- (It occurs to me that I've been spoiled by having ready access to exotic groceries in most of the places I've lived in my adult life. In Philadelphia there were all kinds of fantastic eats to be found at Reading Terminal Market and the Italian Market; in Charlottesville I was right near Foods of All Nations; and in Ann Arbor I lived within a five-minute walk of the foodie paradise that is Zingerman's, not that I could afford most of what they sold. Here it requires a bit more initiative to find the same kinds of things, but I'm happy to report that it can be done.)
- On the way, I stopped at my new local yarn store, Dagmar's Yarns, and browsed happily for a bit. I don't think I'm going to have any problem finding yarn for my next sweater project. There's another yarn store in Mystic, just up the coast, that I want to check out as well.
- Apropos of knitting: I have found People to Knit With. This is always a good thing.
- The other good news of the weekend: I now have a functioning washer/dryer in the apartment, and just in time; I was on the verge of running out of clean clothes.
- More pictures of New London, including 19th-century houses, 18th-century gravestones, and attempts to capture sunlight on the river, will be forthcoming once I get around to uploading them.
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