Ratiboř

In building this site, we assumed that its physical condition and cleanliness would lead users to leave it in the state in which they found it after their use. Most do.

But last week was different. One group that barbecued on Saturday, Aug. 21, did clean up the area, but left a black bag of trash in place. It was the ones who came after them on Tuesday and stayed until Wednesday morning who left an egregious mess - see photos. Scattered and especially broken glass bottles, a vandalized fireplace full of shards, the ground littered with the remains of inflatable balloons and paper garlands, countless empty PET bottles and beer tops. In addition, as it turned out later, there was a smoldering metre-long log in the fireplace, stolen, as one of many, from the edge of the yard of the nearby Dančák cottage. According to the witnesses, these were school-aged youths who were perhaps celebrating a birthday or the end of the holidays. It took me an hour and a half to clean up.

I would welcome it if any of the celebrants, if they read this, would come to apologise, thank me for cleaning up and arrange to replace the wood stolen from the Dančaks.

Jan Janicek, patron of the benches at Kosice.