点评:Stoupa is now well past it's sell by date. Once an idyllic village and beach resort, it's increasing popularity has led to serious overcrowding of the beaches and restaurants. The two main beaches now have sunbeds and umbrellas so close together that no sunshine can get through. The restaurants are so busy that the quality of the food has become inconsistent at the best , downright poor at many times.
To add insult to injury Kalamata airport is to small to cope with the volume of British flights, god help it when the ees is fully implemented!
I understand that this is all a response to a greater demand, and to be honest, whilst we were there most seemed perfectly happy. But then most didn't know what it was like before it became over commercialised. In a nut shell, Stoupa hasn't the physical capacity (two relatively small beaches, literally just a couple of hundred yards wide, and just a dozen or so restaurants) to accommodate and feed the vast numbers of tourists descending upon it during the holiday season.
翻译:斯托帕如今早已过了它的“黄金时期”。这里曾经是个风景如画的村庄和海滩度假胜地,但随着知名度日益提升,海滩和餐馆出现了严重的过度拥挤现象。现在,两处主要海滩上的日光浴床和遮阳伞密密麻麻地排列着,阳光都难以透过来。餐馆里人满为患,食物品质在最好的情况下也只是参差不齐,很多时候甚至糟糕透顶。雪上加霜的是,卡拉马塔机场的规模太小,根本无法应对大量英国航班的需求;一旦欧洲旅游开放政策全面实施,那可真是不堪设想啊!
我明白这一切都是因为需求增加所致。说实话,我们在那里的时候,大多数人似乎都挺开心的。不过他们大多并不知道在旅游产业过度商业化之前这里是什么样子。简而言之,斯托帕在物理空间上根本承载不了这么多游客——这里只有两片相对较小的海滩,宽度也就几百码而已。只有十几家餐馆,根本无法满足假日期间大量涌入的游客的用餐需求。