Rain turns the countryside green… and brings out the mosquitoes and flies, as those who live near the La Rambla de las Brujas well know.

And you don’t have to live there to be the target of swarms of 6-legged muggers who rob you of your blood and sweat because the lanes down either side of the Rambla are very popular amongst walkers, joggers and cyclists.

The Town Hall had hounded (rightly) the Junta to clear the watercourse of vegetation before the rains came, which they did, but the bountiful rainfall since then has brought forth the tropical-island jungle that it now sports, all the way between Alcampo and the Centro de Desarrollo Turístico.

So, it looks like pedestrians and cyclists are stuck with the 633 Squadrons merciless attacks until September, when the clearing operations will begin again, but by which time all the winged beasties will have died off with the encroaching cold and pure exhaustion from plundering blood.

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