Work is under way for a bridge to link Otivar to the other side of the river where many local farmers have orchards.

When the river is up, even a landrovers have trouble across, so the bridge has been on Otívar’s Santa list for a long time.

Because the access to the river from the village is hardly wide enough to get mule on a full stomach down, the pillars are being made actually in the riverbed – there’s no way of bringing them down ready made.

The bridge construction has a budget of 200,000 euros, 150,000 of which come from the Provincial Council and 50,000 from the municipal coffers.

Once finished it will be 19 metres long and six metres wide – wide enough for at least two lunch-bloated mules – just joking!

I’m not 100 percent sure where the bridge is being built but it probably just down from the electricity-generation station, where the Cázulas road reaches the river.

Enhorabuena, Otívar!

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