What is the Feria?
Feria is Spanish for Fair, but in this case it stands for the market or farmers market,
It is on Fridays where all the farmers, produce people, bakers, cheese makers, fish mongers and butchers come and sell their goods. AT a very reasonable price I might add.
If you are someone who loves fresh fruits and vegitables, then this is the place for you.
What Makes Atenas Different?
Atenas, the city where we live, was named the most friendliest climate in all the world by National Geographic. We literally live in perpetual springtime 365 days of the year.
Because it is perpetual spring, we have a LOT of fruits and veggitables that grow year around, where in the U.S. they only grow during the spring time.
We have papaya, pineapple, mango, passion fruit and many sorts of citrus. Interestingly enough, we do not have the comon yellow lemon down here. For some reason, it does not grow here.
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| Here I am checking out some Star Fruit - yea, it grows here. |
Here we have apple bananas, yep, they have a apple taste. I personally think they have more of a berry taste. No matter what, they are great tasting. Once you have tried a tree ripened banana, you will never eat a store ripened again.
El Toledo Coffee - I have to say some of the best coffee in the world. I just opened a bag of light roast and the flavors are out of this world. I never knew coffee could be this good. IF you come down for a visit, we will take you to El Toledo. You will fall in love with the coffee as well.
These long brown things are Yucca. You eat them like you would potatoes. The are really good and in most restaurants, when you think you have potatoes, you are actually eating yucca.
Yes, the watermelon is that red. In fact a deep ruby red and they are really sweet to.
This is the stall where I buy my mangos. They have a pretty good selection. The key is to buy some fully ripe, some not so ripe and then some that need time to mature. This way you can have mango everyday like Tracye and I do for our breakfast fruit salad.
Yep, one of the advantages of living where it is always springtime. Incredible fruit and veggies.
You are making me hungry and I just finished dinner. The fruit and the coffee, according to my dear hubby, are beyond comparison to what we regularly can buy in the stores of Oklahoma and Arkansas. But I would love to drink a cup or two of the coffee with you and just talk about the Lord. Things are kinda weird around here for this time of the year. Most generally by the first of May, last of April the heat is getting a little testy but so far, we still have our heat on. Tired of the gas bills but it does remind me of the spring of 1979 and it turned out to be one of our hottest summers of all time.
ReplyDeleteKeeping you in my prayers and above all, for the joy and blessings of the Lord to overcome you so much that your barns cannot hold all of the abundance God has stored up for you. You won't need them in Heaven; you need them on earth so you can fulfill your calling and assignment by God.
Shalom,
Wilma
Over the years we've lived all over the world. It was fun to live off whatever was readily available. We miss living near beachfronts and fishing communities due to having fresh fish available daily but don't miss it because it was much more crowded. We loved living among the pineapple fields in Hawaii and living on fresh food like you are now able to do. Every area gives you special things to eat. Enjoy where ever you are planted!
ReplyDeleteExcept National Geographic has never released lists or anything or named Grecia the best climate in the world. It's an urban myth that just keeps getting repeated in CR. Someone looked into this some time ago and contacted National Geographic.
ReplyDelete@ Wayne Harrison - So do you go around kicking puppies and kittens too? Please read the blog, I am not talking about Grecia, I am talking about Atenas. Even so, urban myth or not, it makes for a good story and we love it here no matter what. I really can not say the same for Grecia. Thanks for being the "soup nazi"for factual reporting.
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