Features

editorial columns by feature writers

Building Services

Luiz Furtado has plenty of experience in all aspects of the building trade, and offers a complete ‘start to finish’ service that even covers liaison with local officials at the initial stages of your project, right through to completion of works.
Luiz

ATS Summer

Don’t lie there all through the summer sweating, unable to sleep and scaring the neighbours by walking around in your underpants! Be a cool dude and get yourself a portable air conditioning unit. It’s

Chiringuito Reprieve

The Chiringuitos can breathe more easily, at last. After two worrying years, and the last few months of cliff-dangling tension, this summer and the next 15 they can get down to doing business without having an

Feria de Asociaciones

A total of 39 associations and clubs took part in the annual Encuentro de Voluntarios de Almuñécar y La Herradura, which was held in the Botanical Gardens, Parque Majuelo on the weekend of the

Gastronomic Fair

The XI Edition of the Annual Gastronomic Fair was held in the Majuelo botanical gardens from the 5th to the 7th of June Twenty

A-44 But No A-7

Last month all eyes swivelled to the virtually completed La Herradura-Taramay A-7 autovía – it was all over, bar the shouting, yet the announced inauguration turned out to be for the last bit of the A-44, Granada-Motril autovía.

Plush Café-Restaurant Opens

Literally the other side of the bridge, on the same side of the road, a very well decorated café-restaurant has opened in the Kairos building. The brothers, Vicente and Antonio Zamora, also run the successful bar-restaurant in Otívar called Bar-Restaurante Madera, by the way.

Almuñécar Art Gallery

Really, it’s not that hard to find, because there couldn’t be a better landmark: the main-road bridge over the Jete road, in San Sebastian. If you walk up to the bridge from the fountain, running down the side of the embankment there is a lane to the left. Just a few metres down, there is a multi-coloured metal door – that’s where the gallery is. It’s pretty spacious and is well lit.

Tartana Summer Menu

Flaming June is upon us, the sun is now a daily companion, and there could be no better place to enjoy those rays than the beautiful terraces at La Tartana.
Penny tells me they are introducing their summer menu to accompany the warmth… but don’t fret all you regulars, all the old favourites will remain and run concurrent with the new dishes.

Suki Sailing

It doesn’t matter if you live in our beautiful area or even if you’re just visiting, one of the most delightful ways of seeing the coastline is by boat, and thanks to the guys at Suki Sailing, it’s doesn’t cost the earth.