Quite a downpour on the coast last night (8th Oct) as 32 litres per sq/m fell in one hour causing the habitual damage and inconveniences.

Almuñécar’s Plaza de Madrid stank of sewage and there was poor old Sergio from the Movistar shop on the corner mopping out the premises this morning around ten. All the new street work in the square was supposed to stop this from happening – never mind.

On the Torrecuevas road there was the habitual lake in front of the junior school and mud ridges further on across the road, brought down from dirt tracks leading onto the road and barrancos then literally empty onto it instead of passing underneath.

Never mind, at least we have a superfluous roundabout with monolithic centre pieces underneath Los Pinos – it was a greater necessity than spending money on sorting out Torrecuevas, obviously.

Avenida Juan Carlos I is being dug up again, just months after it was “finished” because all the pipes laid for draining away rainwater in an effective manner don’t appear to be working as envisaged…

But on a positive note, municipal maintenance workers have been busy building a foot ramp up to the centre of the fountain for the Mayor & entourage on the Día de Hispanidad on Monday – you know where I mean; the fountain on the Carrera de la Concepción which sports a flag the size of a small country, just in case we forget in which country we find ourselves in on the way to work or dropping off the kids at school…

We are indeed fortunate that we have a Mayor who knows her priorities!

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