For those of you who are not sure where this underground car park is, it’s the one in the square just on the opposite side of the main roundabout from Las Esplanadas. OK, so it wasn’t exactly a GPS-rivalling indicator, as far as explanations go, but you know where we’re talking about.

The square in question is La Plaza del Tranvia and it has the only publicly owned car park in town under it. As far as underground car parks go, one would have to say it’s a bit on the small side, or rather it was designed for hobbits with rubber cars because unless your car can bend around corners, it’s a bugger getting in and out. On top of that, according to the PSOE spokesperson, Flor Almón, it’s falling apart.

Unhindered by automatic entrance and exit barriers, motorists have to present themselves at the little booth on the first floor and receive a handwritten ticket. Have we mentioned that the public toilets look as if their doors were wrestled from a sinking tramp steamer? Perhaps not – no need to rub salt into the wound, is there…

But the fact is that it is a very handy little car park and within striking distance of most places in central Motril… and you don’t have to wrestle with traffic lights, if you come into Motril, off the N-340, onto the port road. Yes, you just nip across the main roundabout and straight down into the car park, in a practiced manoeuvre that would leave a double-jointed limbo dancer green with envy.

Anyway, the socialist opposition party wants lifts installed – quite how is a bit of an enigma – the dripping damp eradicated, better lighting and automated access and exit installed.

Why it is that politicians always come up with these demands when they know that there is only an aching vacuum at the bottom of the municipal coffers, but there you have it, none the less.

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