The reason for the contradictory heading is because although the mission of the Governmental Sub-Delegate for Granada, Santiago Pérez, was to reassure the residents of the Costa Tropical that the new conservative government would give priority to the completion of the A-7 autovia, the wording wasn’t actually that reassuring.
East Coast
Costa Tropical east of Motril
Publication Update – February
by Martin Myall •
The February edition of the Seaside Gazette is at present at the printers and will be ready for distribution Wednesday the 1st around midday.
Missing Fruit Crates
by Martin Myall •
Come on! admit it; who hasn’t got a plastic fruit crate amongst their possessions, being very handy boxes in which to store things? Well, quite a few readers will probably be nodding.
Costas vs. Greenhouses
by Martin Myall •
If you drive along the eastern coast of the Costa Tropical, between Carchuna and La Rábita, you will see greenhouses below the N-340, virtually on the beach or on a cliff – at the moment there is a battle between Costas and their owners over their future… or lack of it.
Appeal Quashed
by Martin Myall •
The driver who tried to run down three Guardia Civil policemen has had his seven years’ imprisonment upheld by the Supreme Court after his appeal failed.
Pepino Problems
by Martin Myall •
It was last year, we believe, that anybody passing the Carchuna beach would have seen hundreds of metres of cucumber mounds, rotting. The reason was that there had been a glut and it was cheaper to dump them rather than sell them at below-production prices.
This year the sector is beset by the same problem and the local cucumber farmers were talking of dumping the whole crop again.
Juicy Prize
by Martin Myall •
So what exactly is the Mancomunidad de la Costa Tropicaland why are our politicians squabbling so much to get control of it? Good question!
Avoidable Flooding?
by Martin Myall •
That is what the residents of Calahonda are asking themselves after extensive flooding beset the town. The fact of the matter is that torrential rain cannot be blamed on municipal authorities, but the readiness – or lack of it – of a town to cope with such phenomenon is quite another matter.
A7 Gorgoracha-Puntalon Go Ahead
by Martin Myall •
The much-needed stretch of autovia between Gorgoracha and Puntalón was 75% complete when all work ground to a halt; the construction company Isolux Corsan had struck an unexpected strata of rock that would require a lot of extra funding to reroute the construction work.
2000th Post!
by Martin Myall •
This website came into existence in April 2009 and by the 15th of August 2010 we had reached our 1001st post and were pretty chuffed, but today we’re proud to register our 2,000th post!