Late Night Shopping
Thursday night is late night shopping night in Maningrida. There are only two shops, and they close at 5pm other nights (and don’t open at all Saturday or Sunday!) but on Thursday evening you can go out on the town and shop till you drop!
My local shop – which is a minute or two’s walk away from my house – was fairly lively this evening at about 6. Probably not the most lively i’ve seen it since i’ve been here though.
This shop sells most things you’d expect to find in a small supermarket – and some things you might not expect to find.
They have kitchen stuff and some tools and camping-type things, fishing stuff, frozen food, meat, the usual canned things, and all the rest of what you’d expect. There’s fruit and vegetables, which are quite expensive – but perhaps not that much more expensive than Darwin, which isn’t a cheap place anyway, as everything comes up from the south on trucks. I paid $4.20 for 6 small granny smith apples, $2.30 for a bunch of shallots, and $3.00 for 500g of zucchinis. I can’t really remember what things cost there now, but it’s probably cheaper than England!
There are, of course, quite a few things you can’t get that i used to buy when i lived in Northern New South Wales – or even in Kabul. Yes, Ingrid, like tahini! But you can order stuff from supermarkets in Darwin and they pack it and put it on the barge for you.
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