article_snippet: There’s nothing more down there than nuts and bolts and the odd bit of rotted cargo.'
article_snippet: As I was about to discover, there was far more down there than that.
article_snippet: I had arrived a few days earlier, touching down at Messinia's Kalamata airport after a particularly grim 5am red-eye from Gatwick.
article_snippet: I’d stumbled out of the typically tiny airport to be confronted by a flat concrete car park blotted with bollards and a whiff of hot tar and thyme.
article_snippet: A mysterious collection of cans, burst open with A mysterious collection of cans contents gone.
article_snippet: – a reminder, if ever there was one, of the long history of this spot.