Pavement Cracks

One of my favourite songs is by Annie Lennox and it's called Pavement Cracks. I'm not sure this is what she was referring too though...





This is not unusual, in fact I ran into a few sidewalks that were worse last night but it was too dark to take a picture.

A couple of days ago while talking to the offspring he asked If I felt safe enough to go for a walk at night. In terms of being safe from people sure, said I...but the sidewalks, nope, not on my own. My husband is constantly holding on to me to make sure I don't fall. The other danger I face, being over six food tall, are the low hanging trees. I now tend to walk with my head down to avoid the cracks and end up being bonked in the head by an olive tree.

The glaring difference here is that because property taxes are relatively low compared to North America, the municipalities are not responsible for the sidewalks. Each property owner puts in and maintains his own and I suppose if they break and crumble they don't want to spend the money to fix them. Seems no one forces them to do so either.

I'm just really going to watch my step here...