(Note the chandelier hanging from the arm of the digging arm, the finished cobblestones on the left of the road)
The road machinery was parked out in front of a wonderful coffee shop, third world, fair trade franchise shop, just around the corner from where we live. The owners of the shop decided to use the machinery for the purpose of hanging up their merchandise, so that the few brave people who venture though the construction site, might be tempted to buy the shop’s whares.
(Nomad-son-who-has-returned took a photo of himself swinging in this hammock)
The construction has been going on for weeks now. They are plastering the road with small cobblestones and not asphalt. (I kid you not). Since there are only a few cobble stone layers to be had, the machinery does tend to sit and wait while the cobblestones are laid at snails pace.
Side Note
Come autumn, the city council does a review of its budget and if they find that some of the annual funds have, for whatever reason, not been properly distributed, then they’re quickly spend on road repairs. For, if, horrors of horrors, any of the money the regional or national government has appointed to the city should not be spent by the end of the year, then their new budget will be minus this sum.
So, the city is clogged with road construction sites. Nothing, nyet, is moving. It’s a good thing I ride a bicycle everywhere.
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