Reinhardt also has a collection of snakes and spiders in jars on the mantelpiece. Greece has quite an array of them including cross adders, sand vipers, horned vipers and rather nasty looking black brute of a spider that looks distinctly like a funnel web but I have been reliably informed that although its bite will make you very ill it has never been known to kill anyone. The snakes on the other hand are seriously poisonous and every summer, half of the people in regional hospitals are those that have been bitten by them as they work their market gardens and orchards. A large number of goat herders and shepherds also fall foul of the pesky little mongrels.
Greek hospitals are one place you do not, I repeat; do not want to end up in.
A friend of Reinhardt was visiting from Germany and he borrowed the motorbike for a quick run. Consequential to him spreading himself down the gravel road outside, he wound up via ambulance in the Sparta hospital. Reinhardt went to visit him the following day. He was lying in the bed, his wounds untreated, crusted in blood, clouds of flies swarming the infected sores. The doctor told Reinhardt that it was best just to let these things heal naturally. He was rescued immediately, driven to Athens and flown back to Germany for some proper intensive care.
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