Walking the islands ….. Greece three decades ago

It is easy to be sniffy about how things were done in the past and even more so in other countries.

So, it now seems very strange that once if you wanted to talk to someone by phone you had to go out and put coins in a machine to do so, and equally strange that packets of unflavoured crisps came with bit of salt inside a twist of blue paper.

All of which makes it less bizarre that this man should be plastering the upstairs outside window by standing on a window ledge.

Or that just down in the road in the same Greek village a woman was whitewashing a wall using simple brush made from straw bundled together and tied to a stick with string.

But then back in the early 1970s just outside Seaham Harbour in the North East the scaffolding surrounding a construction consisted of old telegraph poles to which were lashed planks.

At the time I marvelled at the Heath Robinson approach to building but then I had yet to visit Greece.

As I said it is easy to be sniffy, but how things were done in the past was just different.

Location; Greece

Pictures; doing it differently, Greece, 1981, from the collection of Andrew Simpson