Last month you may have read about the caravan controversy in Motril, whereupon the council decided to ban mobile home campers on the grounds that they cause a nuisance and take business away from camp sites. A little harsh for all those law abiding camping people who do in fact clean up after themselves and leave their picnic tables at home (a crime, it seems, to get them out in a car park.) But now it seems Salobreña has decided to follow Motril’s lead and ban the vans too.
After being fairly neutral in my reporting last month and appreciating both sides to the story, I think I’ve changed my mind. Fair enough, large groups of caravans can be quite overpowering but then surely stricter controls are a better way to deal with the problem than just booting them out of town all together. Whatever happened to a free world? Peace and love and tolerance indeed.
What is particularly hard to swallow is that until Motril brought in the ban, Salobreña never claimed to have any problems with the dear campers, in fact, they were designated certain areas in town where they wouldn’t disrupt the townsfolk and keep everybody happy. Guess the old system didn’t work so well after all. So, off to more tolerant shores Caravaners and, just for the record Salobreña, it’s not cool to copy your neighbours.