The good: how lucky we are to live on this wonderful beautiful island. Today we walked down to Σμαρδάκιτο from Tarabados (excuse spellings!) taking in the gorgeous views, and then had a lovely lunch before walking (more slowly!!) back up again. But......the Bad: when we left home, the rubbish by the bins!! All over the road. The temptation is just to go 'tut tut, how terrible' and drive on. But no! It took me less than 5 minutes to gather it up and put in a bin - they were not full. I can't imagine who would leave such a mess, I suspect no one on this site, everyone here loves & respects Tinos too much. But, we are, as I said at the start so lucky to be here, and its only takes a few moments to take a bit of care.....

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