At last, the wooden stumps – all that is left of the old wooden paseo – have been removed, or at least, the authorities have made a stab at it. (to make an effort towards.)

I know that some native English speakers find it perplexing that I put explanations in brackets, but there are many non-native English readers of the Seaside Gazette and the English language is laced with impenetrable idioms like ‘make a stab at.’

Anyway, until now, only the stumps that got in the way of the setting up of the San José fair had been removed.

This long-delayed task has finally been tackled because the Ministry of the Environment in Madrid (Costas) has handed over the administrative responsibility of the Andaluz coastline to the Junta de Andalucia.

Once completed, the only other obsolete features to be removed are the wooden lampposts, which, incidentally, only were in use for one whole day and the pergola in front of the kiddies’ park.

The wooden paseo, complete with an impressive wooden pier, was put to project in 1994 and erected in 1996 – what a bloody fiasco and complete waste of tax-payers’ money that was?

(News: Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)