I’m struggling a bit with the supermarkets here. Firstly because on the whole you can’t buy ingredients – you can just buy ready made things with added lard and sugar. Secondly because everything comes in HUGE quantities – I mean why would I want to buy 12 eggs at a time? Lastly because the logic of the supermarket layout isn’t the same as the logic of UK supermarkets.

Why is that important? Well because I hate supermarkets and usually run in, get what I need, then run out. I can’t do that here because stuff isn’t where you’d expect. For example the other day I was looking for blue cheese. I didn’t find it along the whole wall of the store marked “Cheese is good” which more accurately should have been “Cheese wrapped in plastic/ Plastic Cheese”. I didn’t find it in the deli section which only had rectangular cheese. I finally found it in the “exotic mostly foreign cheeses” section hidden behind the fruit and veg.

Same with rice. Every sort of rice known to man, except for the Arborio I was looking for was in the same area…..postponing any risotto making for at least a fortnight.