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Blogging and Twittering, Wisdoms and Rules:

100909 Beyond Hope – can also be found when you twitter and blog. #Twitter #Blogging

100910 My home is my castle – that is also true for twittering and blogging. #Twitter #Blogging

100911 You grow with your task – that is also true for twittering and blogging. #Twitter #Blogging

100912 The worst enemy of “good” is “better” – that is also true for twittering and blogging. #Twitter #Blogging

100913 The best language is the one that comes from deep in your heart – that is also true for twittering and blogging. #Twitter #Blogging

100914 Evil spreads easily – that is also true for twittering and blogging. #Twitter #Blogging

100915 Sometimes half as much is better than all of it – that is also true for twittering and blogging. #Twitter #Blogging

There is a new tweet each day. See Twitter and “follow” RolandDuerre!

Enjoy!

RMD
(Translated by EG)

P.S.
For more pictures taken by Mani (Peloponnesus, Greece), try Twitpic!

P.S.1
I took all these proverbs from Alle deutsche Sprichwörter.

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At the time, we had to go out into the open country regularly. In Germany!

However, when I live in a tent during my vacation, then this is a pleasure.

And then the following criteria must be met:

• The tent has to be pitched directly near the ocean.
• There must be a nice sandy beach between the tent and the ocean.
• The campground should be rather deserted.
• There must be ample distance between my own and other tents.
• There should be as few campers and caravans near my tent as possible.
• The toilets and showers must be clean.
• There must be a minimum chance of rain.
• The temperatures must be very hot during the day and very nice at night.
• The water of the ocean must be warm.
• As you walk into the ocean, the water must be very shallow at first, but reach a good depth for swimming very soon.
• There must be very good swimming.
• Motor boats, private planes, motor bikes and cars may impede me.
• The water must be clean and ecologically acceptable.
• Many fish should be swimming in the ocean.
• The flora and fauna must be intact.
• There must be an idyllic view from the tent.
• The sky should be starry, the moon should be reflected in the water.
• Every rise and setting of the sun must be a wonderful experience.
• It should be possible to kayak.
• There should be beautiful scenery to admire from the water.
• All kinds of bike tours with varieties of levels and distances should be possible.
• The local food must be as tasty as it used to be.
• There should be all kinds of restaurants offering tasty and varying meals at reasonable prices.
• The wine must taste delicious.
• And much more!

It is hard to believe, but I found the place!

Greetings from abroad,

RMD
(Translated by EG)

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To be sure, it is quite possible that my experience is only of the sunny side of Greece because we are far from the central areas of Athens/Piräus. We are staying 15 kilometres south of Gythio.

Gythio used to be the harbour of Sparta and is the local metropolis. Yet it has hardly more than 5,000 inhabitants. The next “bigger” city is probably Sparta, which with less than 15,000 (city) and 20,000 (area) inhabitants is still considered “small-townish” by our standards. Both Ottobrunn and Unterhaching, for instance, have more inhabitants.

So you could say I am really in a rural area. We are confronted with a high standard of living and extremely friendly people. Basically, this seems to be a misfit if you consider the current business reputation of Greece in Germany.

However, there are a few “claw marks in the varnish”. They signal that all is not well. For example, along the transit road into the beautiful harbour town of Gythio, foul-smelling waste is contaminating the place.

The same is true for all small and big roads I travelled. You cannot find a single street where there are no small of huge mountains of waste.

For me, that is inconceivable. How is this possible?
Well, so here is one of my stupid ideas.

Are we treating our countryside any better in Germany? Unfortunately not! We bury our countryside in very much the same manner. To be sure, we do not do it with plastics and other waste. Instead, we cover everything with concrete. That is typical for our German thoroughness.

Do we really need all those discount markets, do-it-yourself markets, furniture markets and supermarkets in all our communities? Why do we always make the old roads broader and broader? Why do we still build new streets and parking places, although we know that individualized traffic is dying? In Bavaria, we fill 17,2 hectares of land with concrete each day.

The only difference is that our waste looks different from the Greek waste. And there will be a day when it is much more expensive to re-build the German waste than to collect and deposit the Greek waste.

RMD
(Translated by EG)

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And in every discussion, you hear about bordello frequenters. To be sure, their faces will not be recognisable, but their clothes and gestures make them easy to identify. What a disaster!

And it will get easier and easier for thieves to plan the layout of their thefts. Not to mention that you can even make out the colour of your kitchen curtains …

I do not fear street view. Admittedly, the internet will bring plenty of change. But I think it is still quite as impossible now as it used to be to even imagine all the possible consequences. It makes me remember what it was like when the first automobiles were introduced. When the cars conquered all the (not even existing) streets, everybody was opposed to the idea. Farmers demonstrated with pitchforks against those devil’s coaches. And all kinds of associations were formed in order to prevent those smelly and noisy means of individualized transport from happening.

But they came regardless – and with a vengeance. There is no doubt that they caused massive damage. It might have been possible to limit the damage if the new technology had been accepted and controlled in a pro-active way from the outset, rather than demonizing it. Some excesses might probably have been prevented.

However, since the automobile technology was rejected with ignorance, it emancipated itself and rolled over us in the truest sense of the word. Driving a car became the epitome of freedom, the first drivers of cars were called pioneers of progress. Thus, the technology quickly found its way, regardless of all resistance. And it was no longer possible to control the predictable development and the explosion of individualized traffic.

But this intermediate step “individualized traffic based on the combustion motor” was a necessary part of the way towards an infra-structure based on electricity. And that is what we need for a modern society with all the comforts I no longer want to do without. The detour through steam engine and combustion motor was necessary in order to create an “electrical society”.

When the classical cars disappear, they will have dominated our world for a little more than a century. But what is a century in the face of evolution? It seems that we repeat the mistakes we made a hundred years ago. We demonize a new technology and demonstrate against it with “pitchforks”. We come up with strange or absurd data protection laws and motivate people to protest against them. The current artificial and partly hypocritical resistance will be swept aside, just as the car honked away all its opponents.

But cars, too, face their exodus, even if they currently celebrate their last great success in countries that were still called developing countries a few years back. There is a comfort for many upset people who are now terrified by Google and mostly without being knowledgeable at all about the internet endlessly babbling and fluttering all over the place: the “Google-Empire” will not last a hundred years as did Daimler, Ford, VW and Co. I am absolutely sure about that!

RMD
(Translated by EG)

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