Perhaps the classic AC/DC number can best sum up where the A-7 peters out into the N-340… Highway to Hell.

On the 16th of August, with all the holiday makers trying to make their way back up to Granada after spending a fortnight on the coast, squeezing onto the same sorry tarmac of the N-340 as those coming down to the coast to spend the 2nd fortnight of August and the result was inevitable – tailbacks and bottlenecks.

The new record for a tailback now stands at 25 kilometres, thanks to the 16th of August. What a bloody disaster!

The whole road was jammed from Almuñécar (Taramay), past Salobrena, past Motril and through Torrenueva. Getting off the A-7 in Taramay with the foolishly optimistic aim of getting onto the A-44 for Granada was resulting in over an hour of slow-rolling patience.

Those who know the Cabra route past Jete & Otivar took it; it’s a longer route, but the time it takes you to go from the coast, all the way over the top, to come out at Padul on the A-44 was about the same as it took you to reach the A-44/N-340 junction between Salobrena and Motril.

And poor bloody Salobrena! Getting into or out of the village would have had Gandhi and Mother Theresa cagando en los muertos de to’o

(News: Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)