water

I find this all very strange as we have always drunk the tap water with no ill affects. I think it must be something to do with where you live as everyone in our village drinks the tap water including the visitors of the English families who don't have time to get used to any bugs as they only come once a year for a week or two. We have just been out for a meal with friends whose parents own a house here and they have been giving their 2 year old water straight from the tap with no problems. As for tasting bad I actually don't like the water in England as it has so much chrorine in it. The best water I have ever tasted out of a tap is at the donkey sanctuary which is just like spring water. However, do remember that at this time of year the water goes off most days for a couple of hours so many people still use the sterna or a reserve tank (especially the hotels and appartments) so I would say that it would be unwise then to drink the water. Just ask locally what the water is like.

On the same note, We have just been to Athens for a few days with the grandchildren. When we got there we mentioned that maybe we would have to put the toilet paper in a little bin. They were so disgusted by this that I popped down to reception and asked and they told me that those days where long gone. Thats the other thing I find so supprising that people are still being asked not to put paper down the Loo. I can understand it if you are close to the sea as we wouldn't want to polute the water there so there are no soakaways and the sewerage has to be pumped out, sometimes every day, but in villages where there is room to build large soakaways just what is the problem? In the UK our soil pipe is 4 inches, here it is over 6 inches. Many of our neighbours have been putting everything into their soakaway for 20 years and never had it emptied and if they ever did it would only cost around 200 Euro.  For 10 Euro a year I think it's worth it.