Hamstering

You are not allowed to shop with more than one, but we took the liberty to stock up at Mercadona each with our own shopping trolley, each doing half of the store.

Mercadona actually had nearly everything still in stock. Meat: completely stocked up. Only dishwasher tablets were nearly gone, all dried chick peas, and all crisps (chips), apart from one flavor.

Bought extra supplies to not have to visit for a while: 2 x 5 kg flour (bread!), 1 kg couscous, 4 kg rice, 1 kg spaghetti, 2 packets with 8 small tins of tuna, 16 big tins of dog food (4 flavors), 8 tins canned tomato, 1 bottle washing liquid, etc.

Spain in lockdown

Spain is in lockdown, which for us is not totally horrible, as we’re always sort of in lockdown ourselves, being more or less asocial to start with. Only allowed to go out to the shops for basic supplies. Took advantage yesterday to get a fresh supply of dog food. We are flexible, we can eat almost anything, but dogs are a bit less flexitarian, so I relieved Ramblizo of 4 big bags of Royal Canine. Regular for Zoomba and Papaya, Adult7+ for Coco, antiallergenic for Alma, and mini for Lucero. That should last us up to 2 months.

We still had 3 kg flour, if we cannot reach a baker, ca 5 kg of various dry pasta, 2 kg couscous, 1 kg migas, etc. And some pots of pesto, quite a few liters of olive oil, 5 kg sugar, 2 kg salt, 10 bottles of Guv’nor, 4 liters Campari, 1 bottle Grand Marnier, etc. We’ll survive. I hope.

Grand Marnier ish

Grand Marnier is very nice, but not readily available here. At least not at Mercadona. They do have Cointreau, but no regular triple sec, while this is orange country. Odd. Mercadona does have a quite good tequila, so we don't have to spend our lives here without Margaritas. (Don't worry.)

Grand Marnier and triple sec are available, but in only one liquor shop that we know, in Vera. Mercadona does have a nice Spanish brandy, for less than 10€. The good thing is that this brandy mixed with common triple sec is not quite unlike Grand Marnier. Which makes life here a little cheaper again.

Still really unavailable is Poire William eau de vie. Unknown here. Which is a pity. What they do have here are the Williams pears themselves. Never seen those elsewhere.