Today was another recovery day. Last night at 2am Ton and I were having a nice conversation about something as we were both wide awake. We both finally nodded off about 4 am. Needless to say we ended up sleeping late.
After we got ourselves going we decided to use today to get François fully stocked for the trip When I googled groceries near me, in addition to all of the normal grocery stores an Asian Grocery popped up that looked interesting. We decided to start our day there and it was a good find. In our travels in Europe we never have come across an Asian grocery, but this one was giant. It filled a good sized warehouse, the front was individual servings, but in back there was a large section with large bulk items to purchase. Ton really enjoyed shopping and we walked out with a good amount of “luxury” items to consume on this trip.
We needed some meat and other basics, across the street was a giant grocery called Makro, we went in behind another customer, but I thought it was weird that he needed to scan a card to get in. When we got inside the interior was very similar to a Costco, and then it hit me, we had gone to one of these in Thailand before and the one in Thailand required a membership. We saw someone who worked there and I asked him if this was a membership store, and he said yes. I apologized for breaking in, and he laughed, but said to come with him and he would ask if we could get a one time membership. In the end we could not, so we ended up in a Lidl.
We also saw a small deli next to the Makro that sold Surinamese food. Ton was curious so we poked our head in. We both realized that we were hungry as we had not had lunch and only a very small breakfast. We got a couple of interesting dishes, and fried bananas which I loved. The food was tasty.
Tomorrow we are planning our first excursion into Amsterdam.