All of the seaside towns along the Costa Tropical announced prior to Semana Santa that they had been busy getting their beaches ready for the Easter crowds. Salobreña was no exception.

But Salobreña’s Maintenance Deparment had been busy up in the Old Town (as mentioned in a previous article) applying a lick of paint here, and sorting out street lighting there.

In fact, the Town Hall has hired half a dozen extra workers using PFEA funds to help out with getting beach furniture up to scratch.

It’s true that the cold and windy weather at the beginning of the week didn’t help, but with the arrival of Good Friday things began to look up weatherwise.

Once Semana Santa is over, street-cleaning personnel with get to work removing the wax…

Editorial comment: if there is one thing that gets my goat, up it is seeing some public employee with a leafblower, especially in this case (see photo) using it to remove sand from the beach walkways. What is wrong with a stiff yard broom?

(News: Salobrena, Costa tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Beach, Old Town, Maintenance, Easter Crowds, Leafblower

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Reader’s comment: “Ahh… but a stiff yard brush doesn’t make the same sound as leaf blower VROOM… VROOM. There seems to be an unwritten rule nowadays that no work may be carried out unless accompanied by the sound of an ICE powered device (except when indoors when electrically powered devices are permissable). Check out your earplugs summer’s here.” – George