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Long and winding road to nowhere.
Long and winding road to nowhere. Well-known fact. Grumps hate waste!
“Eat your greens, there are children starving in Africa…Switch the lights off, it’s like Blackpool Illuminations around her…Shut the window, the central heating’s on.”
You know the sort of thing.
So thrift-induced apoplexy was close to breaking new records while visiting the idyllic Greek island of Kefalonia.
Ten years ago, a £1,000,000 EEC-funded “museum” was built on one of the remotest sites. Access afforded by a track made for donkey carts hair-pinning up an impressive geological feature the Venetians thought suitable for a fortress. Which they built.
The “museum” - complete with all mod. cons. including marble-paved courtyards, flushing loos, copious wiring to a non-existent power supply – has never been used. Although goat turds on the marble indicate some benefit to the local fauna.
No, keep the rag away from your face, now ain’t the time for your tears, as Bob Dylan once wrote.
This year’s EEC-funded folly at the same site makes the “museum” seem piffling in its attempts at idiocy.
The kilometre-long, twisting, single-lane access to the afore-mentioned fort is being up-graded. Not with gravel, or tarmac, or concrete, or any other suitable road surface. Oh no, they are using slabs of inch-thick slate which would be ideal for up-market kitchen flooring. I kid you not.
A local said 80 euros per square meter had been agreed in the quote. But whatever the real cost, it ain’t cheap.
“But it will be far too slippery for vehicles when there is any rain,” quoth I in disbelief.
“Oh no,” says the local. “Vehicles won’t be allowed to use it.”
So, in a remote corner of Kefalonia, there is a £1 million unused “museum” with no electricity. It’s only access now is a kilometre-long, superb slate, 12-foot-wide footpath. And all funded from our taxes.
Waste? Don’t get me started!
“Eat your greens, there are children starving in Africa…Switch the lights off, it’s like Blackpool Illuminations around her…Shut the window, the central heating’s on.”
You know the sort of thing.
So thrift-induced apoplexy was close to breaking new records while visiting the idyllic Greek island of Kefalonia.
Ten years ago, a £1,000,000 EEC-funded “museum” was built on one of the remotest sites. Access afforded by a track made for donkey carts hair-pinning up an impressive geological feature the Venetians thought suitable for a fortress. Which they built.
The “museum” - complete with all mod. cons. including marble-paved courtyards, flushing loos, copious wiring to a non-existent power supply – has never been used. Although goat turds on the marble indicate some benefit to the local fauna.
No, keep the rag away from your face, now ain’t the time for your tears, as Bob Dylan once wrote.
This year’s EEC-funded folly at the same site makes the “museum” seem piffling in its attempts at idiocy.
The kilometre-long, twisting, single-lane access to the afore-mentioned fort is being up-graded. Not with gravel, or tarmac, or concrete, or any other suitable road surface. Oh no, they are using slabs of inch-thick slate which would be ideal for up-market kitchen flooring. I kid you not.
A local said 80 euros per square meter had been agreed in the quote. But whatever the real cost, it ain’t cheap.
“But it will be far too slippery for vehicles when there is any rain,” quoth I in disbelief.
“Oh no,” says the local. “Vehicles won’t be allowed to use it.”
So, in a remote corner of Kefalonia, there is a £1 million unused “museum” with no electricity. It’s only access now is a kilometre-long, superb slate, 12-foot-wide footpath. And all funded from our taxes.
Waste? Don’t get me started!
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