On 30 Aug, 17:55, me wrote:
> On Aug 30, 5:17 am, Morcel Moreseaux wrote:
>
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/6966714.stm
>
> > A not-so-happy return to the Med
> > By Julian Pettifer
> > BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents
>
> > According to English writer Samuel Johnson, "the grand object of all
> > travel is to see the shores of the Mediterranean."
>
> > A lifeguard hut on the beach at El' Estatit
> > The Med remains one of the world's most popular coastlines
>
> > In his day, that expression of love was harmless enough, but in recent
> > years, so many of us have been able to satisfy our desire to visit the
> > Med that we have loved her almost to death.
>
> > I was lucky, I knew her at her best. Fifty years ago, in 1957, I
> > hitchhiked my way around Spain and had the beaches almost to myself.
>
> [snip]
>
> First sign of old age. One starts to talk about how much better
> things
> were when they were young. Go back 50 years, old people were
> complaining then too.
According to a recent Greenpeace study, the Mediterranean suffers more
pollution from discarded plastics than any other sea - almost 2,000
pieces of plastic per sq km of seabed.
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