Oddities Observed On Outings #9
People’s Pebbles.
This continuing series looks at things observed when walking. Some objects will be familiar to some readers, but most are likely to be unfamiliar to most. I’m really just presenting those objects that catch one’s attention perhaps by their incongruity, their idiosyncrasy, or simply their oddness.
In 2016, our daughter had left uni and was working as a Holiday Rep on the lovely, small, Greek Island of Samos. We went out to see her and she showed us a lot of the island we would otherwise have missed.
On one our unaccompanied walks, we came across concrete steps leading down to a pebble beach, half of which we discovered belonged to a beachside hotel, with the other half devoted to a ‘clothes optional’ beach.
For reasons I hope are clear, I was cautious with the rather obvious camera I always carried in those days, so we wandered the hotel part until we reached some steep cliffs with Mediterranean waves crashing against them. But there was little else of interest, so we retraced our steps and began to climb the path leading to the steps.
On the way, as we passed through a small copse of trees, we came across a few patches of pebbles inscribed with messages. Some had faded with time, others were illegible, but some contained stones with…
