heh
I know where your coming from, but it seems that personal responsibility is such that if there isn't a fence, or a sign saying that you expressely can't do something, some people reckon that it's a green light for just about anything ...
get enough traffic, and it gets fucked up. I've seen some outrageous things - one experience always sticks in my mind, over in Gozo, at Gigantia Temples. This bloke told me that he hadn't come all the way from Deptford just to stay behind the cordon, so he jumped over to have a better look. I watched him do it.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of people, go through there everyday. If everyone who visited there did that, then the place would be totally fucked up just by sheer weight of numbers. What gives anyone the right to say "my need is greater" in that situation?
Ironically, we kept bumping into him and his family over the next few days, topping it off with grabbing the last tour place around the Hypogeum that I could have feasibly done, and still been able to catch my flight
careful, you don't know what you've started!
generally, most people who visit ancient sites really take care, but the law of averages means that somebody either deliberately or thoughtlessly leaves in a worse condition than they found it ... a visit to West Kennet got me thinking this way, coming away with pockets full of collected rubbish (mainly tea candles), and the recent solstices and equinoxes at Stonehenge have been memorable for having a close look at the stones for the first time, and seeing the graffiti, going back hundreds (and thousands) of years.
So it's not a new problem
I'll stop now ... I've been reading about Dromberg, and I'm intrigued (over to you, FW)
RG
