The day fair – what’s that all about? I remember when it first started in Calle Pintor Manuel Rivera with a few rickety bars and some shading provided by tarpaulins.

It morphed up the street over the years, even getting running water! Even then it was seen by many as depriving local bars of much needed summer income. Last year gave us a large marquee on the P4 lorry park and hundreds of drunken kids vomiting and urinating in the near vicinity.

This year we have a massive tent, with lots of pointy baby tents and lots of mobile toilets. The main tent has been up for possibly 3 weeks already. At what cost and to whom? All for 3 days? We know from last year that the tent will be heaving with young folk and that someone, somewhere will be making a fortune, but at the expense of the local bars.

On one hand, the ayuntamiento is trying to encourage tourism, on the other, the first thing visitors this weekend will see is this Bacchanalian drunken fest.

My very rough and guesstimated cost is around 25 euros for the tent. Do the bars inside have to pay rental?

The Grumpy Guiri ‎

(Grump Corner: Fería de Día, Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

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