Destruction of fishing boats on Paros

See the photos here
http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.3440316089419.2166886.1316067967&type=3 (Oona Giesen)

and comments on Paros and Naxos Life's Facebook page here http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.3440316089419.2166886.1316067967&type=3

It seems that the boats are being destroyed to get an EU subsidy, but the traditional old boats that are bing destroyed are not being used for the over-fishing that is the reason for the subsidy.  The much larger fishing boats are the one's that overfish.

Some of these old wooden fishing boats are works of art, and add so much to the atmosphere of many islands, not just Paros.  I wonder if these old boats are being destroyed elsewhere in Greece? :-(

Katapola - "the Big Boom Project" - destruction of the unfinished hotel

For many years the large unfinished hotel was one of the landmarks on Amorgos.  In this video you can see the destruction of the hotel in April 2006.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pspeYksu3bo

On the roadside in front of the hotel is a large old house which we have always called the "Captain's House".  That hotel was not demolished, and since the destruction of the hotel "skeleton" has been renovated.