Poor Viljandi. It is one of the loveliest towns in Estonia and boasts one of the country's most gorgeous settings, whatever the season - and tourists are deserting it like rats from the proverbial sinker because it reeks. Hotel and guesthouse managers, tired of their trade fleeing the town in horror at the objectionable odour wafting over it, have picketed the town council. The fetor is thought to derive from local pig farm slurry, a nearby manure farm or possibly the town's waste treatment facilities. However, while all three admit that they are inevitably responsible for a certain stinkiness, none of them are taking the rap for the putrid pong repelling unsuspecting visitors.
A spokesman from the Pärnu County Environmental Inspectorate said that they would be keeping an eye on the three as potential sources of the offensive stench, but conceded that you can expect little else at the peak of the smelly season. "Summer has been relatively hot and dry, and there hasn't really been any wind to speak of, so any whiff is going to become extra shitty under those circumstances," he explained. Or words to that effect.
2 comments:
I love that picture. You should send it to Viljandi. They can make it into postcards, t-shirts, coffee mugs, dinner plates . . . they should start captalizing on their smelliness.
We should come up with slogans for them! "Viljandi... smells like shit!" "Viljandi... nausea was never so much fun!"
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