July 7, 2008: Living On The Edge
 

In the "Bigger Europe" IOtD the other day, I mentioned that Europe was worrying about overcrowding, in the early '30s. Now I see what they were worrying about. :eek:

Ronda, Spain.
http://cellar.org/2008/cliffedge1.jpg


Bonifacio, Corsica.
http://cellar.org/2008/cliffedge2.jpg


Castellfollit de la Roca, Spain.
http://cellar.org/2008/cliffedge3.jpg

On the up side, I guess it's easy to get rid of trash and garbage.

Yeah.. I'm looking at that lower right inset on the first pic and wondering shurrrrrr they ran a sewer line up from that place.

Or kids, or pets, or spouses, or roofers.

I've been to Bonifacio several times, the location is amazing ...

How big is that town/city, manu?

I've also been to Bonifacio. It is a beautiful midievil town, the edge of which is perched so precariously on the edge of those cliffs. I arrived there by boat, and it's very dramatic when seen from below...!

Manu, what takes you to Corsica? I have French family with property there and many Corsican friends. I have been going since the 70's. Yourself?

ok - say you live toward the end and have a refrigerator and some new furniture coming - how's it get delivered?

I have also been to Spain. Some city beginning with a 'B' but not Bonifacio...B B bbb ummmm...... on Yeah! Benidorm! With the crocodile and the rain!

Never mind me....

...Send the visitors' obnoxious kids out to play in the back yard....

Let's see...Houses of dubious structural integrity...constructed on the precipice of certain death...

DONOTWANT!!!!!!

I would never sleep. Never.

Gives a whole new meening to Peeing off the Back Porch !!!

Oh. My. God. In the pic from Castellfollit de la Roca, Spain, just above the middle of the pic, on the side of the cliff...Is that a TV antenna? Or a child catcher? Or a gangplank?

At least these houses are built on solid rock, even if it is above a cliff. What about all the hillside houses in California right in the heart of landslide/earthquake country?

Solid rock? Look at that first Bonifacio picture.

Sure, the part that wasn't solid fell down. But what's left is solid.

I think people who lived in the second row wanted to live in the first row. Now they do.

TV antenna on a black pole.

... and eventually people who lived on the third row back then will have that privilege.

Look at the basalt columns ready to break off in the Spanish town:

http://picasaweb.google.com/fcerdans...follitDeLaRoca