Greece is also a land where the notion of public works maps simply doesn’t exist or hasn’t been thought of yet. You just stick your sewer; water pipe, gas main or telephone cable in the ground and if it stops working you simply dig in a new one or leave the service broken. God only knows what archaeologists will think in 3,000 years time.
At any rate, some bright spark decided that with the installation of a new phone cable between Sparta and the southern villages that maybe this time they might put phone post markers in as it had previously been a total nightmare tracking the old cable to try and repair it. In a single day they actually managed to hole the water mains in 15 different locations effectively drying up half of the regions houses and farms. No one had any idea where the pipes actually were and it was nothing short of a miracle that they had laid the cable without digging into the mains originally. They must have been right beside it all the way and never realised.
This is a country fervently trying to upgrade before the Olympics and they haven’t got a clue as to where to find the things that need the upgrading. From a sadistic stand point, I’m looking forward immensely to mid 2004 and the undoubted chaos that will ensue as the Olympics get under way.
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