Tuesday 6th October
One of our best routines in Luperon so far is Tuesday morning’s fruit and veg market. Even a small town like Luperon has plenty of great fresh food for sale and at excellent prices, but Tuesday morning’s are even better. Something akin to the Friday market at St Georges in Belfast, with some small differences.
Staff from a local farm arrive in a rusty old pickup at 5.30am, empty their products onto the pavement under the shade of a tree, and until 9am you can get a whole range of tasty fresh goodness for amazing prices.
Kel went on her own this morning while I did a little tidying on the boat, and came back with avocados, eggplant, cucumbers, peppers, pineapple, tomatoes and bunches of fresh herbs. The prices are great too, along with eating out it’s the cheapest part of life in D.R. 60 cents for a pineapple, avocados for 30. Surely the avocado must rate as one of the finest vegtables, or is it a fruit? Our favourite is a healthy dose of salt and loads of lime juice over it, we eat at least one a day at the minute.
Fresh meat is similarly plentiful. One shop on the mainstreet sells chickens killed freshly each morning, if you arrive early enough he might even let you wring their necks.
All of this leaves us plotting our next adventure, subsistence farming in Nicaragua… but that’s not for this year.
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