Saturday: Spitza

We set off on a long walk to the market this morning so that we could do our weekly vegetable shopping, forgetting that today was All Saints' Day and everything was closed.  We did stand in the middle of the market square looking a bit bemused while it slowly dawned on us.  So, instead of market shopping, we had to resort to supermarket shopping in Konzum, the only place that was open.

After that was done, we sat in the sun, drinking coffee and watching the world go by.  That is a national pastime here, so much so that there is a word for it - 'spitza', derived  from the German for going for a walk, 'spazieren'.

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