Paphos Life

Discovered that the table water I am buying at Lidl's is improving the taste of coffee and tea. Obviously the pH of 7.1, low on calcium but high on magnesium 81.2 mg/l is the secret. So the intake if you drink 2 liter from this water is enough magnesium what your body wants. In fact I could stop buying magnesium tablets as I do at the pharmacy. But more important is the better taste of my coffees and teas....

Another advantage I found when I am using this water: the kettle stays much cleaner. It is not always available at Lidl but next week it is on offer and the brand name is Drosia from Greece.
Max

By the way: the Zivania on offer has got 45%Vol - also good for starting the BBQ ..
Max

Just out of interest, what are the current supermarket offers on things like:

1. Scotch Whisky, 1L. Like Bells, Famous Grouse, Teacher's, Grant's?

2. Rolling Tobacco, 50g. Like Golden Virginia, Amber Leaf, Old Holborn?

3. 6mm Filters, and standard blue / green rolling papers?

That's about all I need to keep me alive, LOL!

@Max: Zivania 45% is Devil's Water... I've seen an ex-Pat in Nata visibly croak from squaffing this evil juice morning till night. He even had a free bottle put in front of him (and his long-suffering wife) when we occassionally bumped into each other up at Pericles Taverna Nata, on a regular (Tues-Sat) weekday lunchtime session...

Cheers- Yiamass!- AL

So no more mineral supplements then Max?


Shane

ApusApus wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2017 10:08 pm So no more mineral supplements then Max?


Shane

I said that I COULD stop magnesium supplements I am buying so far (350mg/day) beside Iron (100mg/day). The only problem is that I cannot get enough of this Drosia water as Lidl stocks it only occasionally and I use 3 bottles per day (also my dog gets it)
Max

@Max: Zivania 45% is Devil's Water...

Is not only good to start the BBQ but also to clean windows with it. I lived 4 years in Italy and used to drink a nice Grappa after a heavy meal. But this was something to enjoy unlike the stuff they sell here. (ok, the bottle was ca 100 Euro)...Zivania is only produced to get rid of grape overproduction.
Max

Thank you telling me, if I run out of stock I will shop there...

Max

We never waste our cash on any plastic bottled water, we do have filtered fridge water and we have for many years used a Brita filter that takes's out most of the limescale; I am very fussy about ground filtered coffee and no reason to complain, for sure I would never buy plastic water and we have never done.

Where do you buy your replacement cartridges from.

Trev..

Personally we have never had any hint of a Chlorine smell from water, in the 3 properties we have lived in here.

Trev..

Interesting link how healthy filtered tap water can be....https://www.thrillist.com/health/nation ... fiers-work

Trev we get our new filters from Super Home Centre and like you we have never smelt any "disgusting chlorine smell" the only thing for us is that hard limescale water, the answer for us in the Brita unit, excellent.

I must admit I have never smelled Chlorine in the tap water in Cyprus either. The issue for me is also limescale. I have gone through so many kettles despite cleaning!

Jeanne

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There must be something wrong with your sniffer then.
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Indeed !

Lofos-Jan wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2017 2:12 pm I must admit I have never smelled Chlorine in the tap water in Cyprus either. The issue for me is also limescale. I have gone through so many kettles despite cleaning!

Jeanne

I agree! I recently bought a nice looking glass kettle which shows the limescale & cloudy water problems with abundance ........... quite disconcerting really! Won't do that again


Shane

No Chlorine up ere... we're clear.

Thanks for the Britta filter outlet Jim..

Trev..

It's not only electric kettles that are destroyed by the hard limescale water in the Paphos region. Imagine what it's doing to your Immersion Heater in Winter, particularly with the cheapo copper elements (designed for soft water areas ONLY) that builders and developers invariably spec on new builds...

Not to mention all the limescale build-up on your hot and cold taps and showerheads...

Cheers- AL

I've never smelled chlorine either, outside of the pool.

The water in Polemi is softer than the water we had back in the UK in Surrey.

Dominic wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2017 6:23 am The water in Polemi is softer than the water we had back in the UK in Surrey.

So you are very lucky Dominic. In the small village of Marathounda the drinking water comes obviously from two different sources as sometimes the pH is high and sometimes low. Very difficult to control the pool pH there as it needs normally acid (pH-) to balance and for a sudden the water comes very low in pH for a month or so. (6.8)....I wonder if the same happens in Polemi as it is a much larger community. Slowly I am off topic ..