That can be read two ways and both are correct: Almuñécar is completely given over to the Fiesta de San Juan and… there are rules that you will have to obey.

First: as of half an hour ago, you can start setting up your tent cities on the beach and getting wood for your bonfire ready for nightfall.

Second: you have to be off the beach, together with your ‘kit’ by 10.00h on Saturday (tomorrow) so you have a few hours to sleep it all off, because nobody sleeps on the night of San Juan, at least, on the beach, otherwise you could find yourself thrown into the sea by the boisterous minded.

Third: no open-air discos are permitted, meaning that ghetto blasters and their 21st century equivalents be operated at levels that do not desintegrate standing structures within ten paces.

Fourth: you can’t set up a stall to sell things or wander around like the ice cream & fags lady of 1960’s British picture houses (cinemas).

Fifth: no small electricity generators or furniture ‘inappropriate’ of a beach. I remember one year on the day after, coming across a solid-wood dining-room table – somebody’s mum was not pleased.

Sixth: no improvised chiringuitos, or brothels, for that matter.

Seventh: clean up the area that you have occupied. Oh wow, the Mayor is such an optimist sometimes!

Eighth: Thou Shalt Not Kill nor Covert Thy Neighbour’s Wife (unless the husband’s too drunk to notice).

So there you go, a cluster of things that you can’t do, which have all come into being thanks to people taking the piss over the last 30 years and thus are necessary restrictions.

However, the press communique mentions nothing about special concerts or activities, which is the case in Motril and Salobreña.

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