Sometimes, something doesn’t have to be new to please people; sometimes just getting something old fixed is enough, which is the case with the long none-functioning streetlight in front of the Hotel Almijarra entrance on the Acera de Pilar in La Herradura.

There hadn’t been a glimmer from it in years, and like a stone in your shoe, it’s a nagging problem that annoys you until you take the time to unlace the problematic shoe, take it off, and empty it.

It gives a bad impression wherever the offending and reluctant street light might be, but right in front of a hotel…

Of course, to fix this streetlight, you have to close this narrow but important thoroughfare to traffic whilst you repair it, so it is not as if you just whip out a ladder, shin up the blighter and change the bulb – no, you have to bring half the village to a halt, which is why this particular problem has lingered on so long.

Let there be light!

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