Very often I find old country roads paved with asphalt. This is the result of the cars' circulation prevailing which obviously is more facilitated in this way than in the dusty country roads full of potholes. It is clear enough that residents are bored to have their cars destroyed and the cars' body covered by dust and scratched by bushes. What is funny is that in general people drive big SUVs on these streets which, poor devils, can be easily damaged in the country roads (so I wonder what these SUVs are good for...)
I've got to say that in the past, only donkeys, mules, oxen and horses circulated along these roads: then arrived tractors. Now the countryside is under siege of construction speculation and country houses which, like hoppers, are excessively multiplicating.
Walking on these asphalted roads is definitively harder than walking on a dusty country road: the soil is rigid and, above all in this season during which days are warmer, asphalt is hot and sometimes it is troublesome to walk over it. Sometimes I'm forced to go "off-road" to rest my feet...
The landscape however is still beautiful and, even if - considering the better road conditions - with more car traffic, it is possible to stay in a good loneliness.
Nonetheless, I do believe that the old country roads should be preserved and maintained in good conditions as a real cultural heritage which should not be buried under a flood of asphalt.
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