The Friday Street Market in Almuñécar will recommence starting the 3rd of July with the Sunday Flea Market starting that same week.

In both cases you’ll have to be done up like an astronaut on the Moon’s surface owing to health precautions but that won’t stop ya, will it?

The Friday market will open at 08.00h and close down at 14.00h, as has been the habitual times for a long time until it was closed down for four months during the Lock Down.

The markets were able to reopen thanks to terms and conditions agreed between the traders and the Councillor for Citizen Safety, Francisco Robles Rivas with health limitations enforced by the Policía Local.

Only 50% of the normal amount of stalls will be permitted, which translate into about 100 stalls. The traders drew numbers out of the bags with odd numbers getting the first chance – even numbers will be allowed to set up their stall the following week.

The Councillor explained that each stall must have hand sanitiser for its customers and gloves must be worn by the traders. Visitors will have to follow a set of arrows around the market so that they won’t be crossing paths with each other.

As for the Sunday Market, like the Friday one, it will be operative between 08.00h and 14.00h. The same painted-arrow-system on the ground will be used to indicate which way to go around the market.

Parking will be forbidden, as always on the Blas Infante square where the markets are held for those events; the prohibition times are on signposts at the entrance to the square and along the road running alongside. In the case of doubt, don’t bloody park there unless you want to be towed away.

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