Almuñécar

news and views from Almuñécar, Costa Tropical

Spain 1 – Paraguay 0

Woo Hoo! Spain’s through to the semi-finals for the first time in World Cup history and in the last ten minutes every street in town has erupted with hooters, drums and wild cheering. It’s going to be a long night tonight and anybody who is thinking of getting a quiet night’s sleep tonight should grab…

Velilla Road Opening

At last, on the 3rd of this month (i.e., today), the through traffic on Velilla and San Cristóbal will be restored… for good.

Chrismas Comes Early…

Wonderful news! The Local Police contingent will have spanking new laptops and PDA’s to make the taxing task of fining people easier and more enjoyable, if that is indeed possible.

Unfair Dismissal

A magistrate in Motril has found that the firing of twelve employees from Hotel Almuñécar Playa were unjustified; i.e., unfair dismissal.

Almuñécar July Agenda

The Town Hall sent us the Almuñécar cultural agenda for July… on the 1st of July, cleverly making it absolutely impossible to include the information in the hard-copy edition of the Seaside Gazette. *Sigh!*

Budget Won’t Budge

The ideal thing would be to start off on a positive note, but why break a habit of a lifetime, eh? Seriously though, the best place to start off is on the most important note – the one that will have most repercussions: the municipal budget.

Adding Insult to Injury

To add insult to injury, almost, the badly battered business along Velilla in front of the car park works have received yet another blow…

VPO’s For Almuñécar

And now onto something completely different… thanks to a subsidized housing project, there is some construction work going. Work in that sector fell so low that whereas before we lived in a forest of building cranes, now the mere glimpse at a building crane in action is something out of the ordinary. As far as…