With summer literally weeks away, it has been announced that our beaches will have an extra 500 metres of access matting available. Excuse me whilst I suppress a felicity-generated erection.
The sort of ‘matting’ that we are talking about, are those, small, blue, concrete slabs that are linked together, made and supplied by a company called Bagelsa. The spokesman of the said company, Antonio Ruiz Baena, announced that installation is already complete on the beaches of Cantarriján and La Herradura.
This additional walk-way material was bought last year, by the way, costing around 96,000 euros, and was purchased thanks to a grant from the Tourism Board of the Junta de Andalucía. However, as the grant was delayed and the summer period passed, the Town Hall opted for waiting until this summer to install them. They had been stored next to the Aquatropic, so you might have seen them, if you have been down that way.
The Town Hall opted for concrete slabs over the traditional wooden walkways as the latter were forever ‘disappearing’ or vandalised. In fact, many mysteriously disappeared the night of San Juan last year…