When I first visted Katapola in 1985, rubbish was dumped in black bin bags by the roadside. Cats attacked the bags, and rubbish was sometimes strewn around.
The modern rubbish collection areas are a good place to photograph cats. The lids of the bins are not always closed. And even when the lids are closed - the other day I saw a cat emerging from the bottle shaped opening of a bottle bank. Perhaps the cat could not read, and did not realise that only glass should be in that bin, not tasty titbits for a catty snack.
On the way to Amorgos we were commenting on the evidence of civic pride in Amorgos. The new "square" in Katapola. The way the large car park is screened by plants. The way when a seat collapses, a new seat appears in its place. The staue in the sea - one visit her head was missing. Soon afterwards I saw that her head had been replaced. This is the ornate head of a statue standing on a plinth in the sea, and very well repaired - I can see no join. And the way in which the rubbish bins are screened.
Then I walked round the bay to our rooms - and saw that the rubbish bins had been moved away from the screened area, and were on the road, fully visible. Odd, I thought. Then I noticed that after all the heavy rain, the road leading to the screenend area was flooded. The bins had been moved to dry ground.
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