Belly button of the earth. It's a long way up a mountain fo be a belly button. We passed through it on our way home from Mesolongi. My humans had taken the long way round and realized the route went straight through one of the most high profile archeological (and tourist) sites in Greece. It was a bright sunny Sunday and the town was jammers with cars and visitors. F decided that a visit deserved a whole lot more time than we had at the tail end of our holiday, so we drove to a small layby about a kilometre from the village and stopped to eat our lunch.
So, no photos of Delphi on this post and the heading is probably a misrepresntation or false advertising.
THIS
...is the scourge of Greece. We cleaned up the area around where we stopped because there was a big green bin about 50m away that we could put the rubbish in
Those two photos were taken from exactly the same view point. The second rubbish cache was less than 10m from the bin
They are both almost in this photo together.
Its a really sad indictment on how people (we don't know which people) treat the countryside. So close to an internationally renowned site of such cultural importance it is nothing short of an insult.
Looking the other way was much more satisfying
That's all olive trees down there - and see that irrigation canal? It was a much better view than the photos suggest.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... I wrote a lengthy response in empathy of disgust for the litterbugs - but of course my internet had dropped out in the meantime and the whole thing was lost. So now the gnashing of teeth is about the wifi service as much as about the fact that FOLK DON'T TAKE IT HOME....ggrrrrrr....
thanks for showing us the beautiful side, to help calm the nerves... hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Sometimes the internet failures save us from ourselves. At other times having drafted a particularly erudite piece of observation and losing it, I should take the view that having composed it once I should be able to do so again. Of course by then half the red mist has evaporated and the second attempt is as you say frustration at all the wasted passion, rather than the subject of that passion itself. Cup of tea? Furrings and lurrings from the whole Tigger household.
DeleteSpectacular scenery up there. Even better without the rubbish!
ReplyDeleteOn the whole its pretty good up there, but tourism brings its own plagues.
DeleteSimilar messes are seen here in NZ, people are so lazy and it's sad. we should take better care of our earth.
ReplyDeleteF grew up with Tidy Kiwi campaign, but acknowledges there was way less of what we eat, drink and use came packaged in plastic in the 70's. There was less that humans COULD throw away, and more of it was relatively harmless paper. There is a case to be made for reducing the amount of plastics being produced and using/applying this fabulous material more wisely. It is great stuff, but like guns, it's what humans do with it that does the harm.
DeleteI agree with Amy - NZ suffers the same sad problem and there is rubbish and litter to be seen in some of our most beautiful spots. Some of it is even deliberately hidden (under bushes, in ditches etc.) and one wonders why, if they went to that much trouble, didn't they just bin it?
ReplyDeleteI love that first portrait of Tigger on the rock. Very stately :)
F used to work in NZ forest service. One of the reasons given for not putting bins in popular spots was that once full, the rubbish would just be piled around them, or put another way bins attract rubbish and people should learn to take it home rather than develop the attitude that their waste can be discarded in the place they finished with it. F doesn't know enough about human psychology to have a well informed opinion on the wisdom of that policy. So the question to your comment is that if they brought the stuff here, and could go to so much trouble to hide it, why not simply take it away again?
DeleteTigger was annoyed by the time F put him on the rock, he had just decided to go exploring down a really steep cliff face and was stopped from doing so, but he thanks you for the compliment.
People can be so lazy. Thank you for cleaning up after them
ReplyDeleteF subscribes to this principle https://beachclean.net/ - that 2 minutes a day is nothing to donate to making the space around us more attractive or less polluted. #2minutebeachclean, #2minutestreetclean. We don't do all the hashtag stuff just collect it and bin it.
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