When I discovered that Bruce Chatwin’s ashes, at his express will, had been scattered in the Mani" and not at the foot of some Argentinean glacier or in the middle of the Australian bush, I was almost disappointed. But how? The myth of travellers, the twentieth century writer in eternal movement, had chosen Mediterranean Greece, the Peloponnese, and not a more exotic and "original" place than the ones told in "Le vie dei canti" or "In Patagonia"? The writer, who died in 1989, pointed to a small chapel in an olive grove overlooking the bay of Kardamyli as the place where his ashes were to be scattered. We only know that it is located near the village of Exochori, in the hills eight kilometers from Kardamyli.
