In an exercise of futility, it appears, the Town Hall ordered that the zebra crossings on Avenida de Andalucia be repainted on the very eve of Semana Santa – they wanted the place to look smart before the crowds arrived. Fantastic! However, Semana Santa brings the pointy-hat shufflers out with kilos of flaming candles, dripping wax in endless trails of tyre-squealing cacophonies.

Now, the PSOE is demanding that the Town Hall cleans up the road surface, and the recently painted zebra crossings that lasted a whole 24 hours in a pristine state, before the wax-clan speckled the lot.

Then, of course, you have weeks of people coming off their motorbikes because of the treacherously slippery surface. When you consider that in the city of Granada, the cleaning services scraped up no fewer than 250 kilos of melted wax, it gives you some idea of how much of the stuff is dripped along road surfaces.

Well, look on the bright side: we’ve got at least three months of blissful silence before the Semana Santa bands start practicing again for Easter next year…

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