The new car park on El Playazo was opened on the Friday the 21st of June, just in time for San Juan.
La Herradura Tapa Route
by Vivienne Hughes •
The village will be holding its first Ruta de la Tapa, which will have 18 participating establishments. The idea is to boost the local hostelry sector. The event will be held on two separate long weekends, so if you miss the first, you can still catch the second. The first will be from from the…
Cracked and Slipping
by Martin Myall •
This is probably the fourth article that we have done on La Herradura’s Carmenes del Mar, but each time it is to say that it has got worse.
July in Almuñecar with Jazz en La Costa
by Julissa Quesada •
Who’s playing at the Almuñécar Jazz en La Costa annual jazz festival at the Majuelo Park.
Tango in Salobreña
by Vivienne Hughes •
The Argentinean dance company, Arcos de Buenos Aires, will be performing in Salobreña on the 20th of July at the municipal auditorium.
Live Music at Restaurante La Ventura
by Louise Powell •
Fernando from Almuñécar’s very popular Restaurante La Ventura tells us that they have plenty lined up in the way of live music this July.
Celtic Music Opens Summer Programme
by Hugh MacArthur •
The Celtic-music band, Bibracte opened the summer programme for la Herradura, 2013.
Spot of Positive News
by Louise Powell •
Spain received 5.8m foreign tourists during May, giving it the best May figures in history.
Villa Astrida
by Martin Myall •
Many of you will know of the house but didn’t know its name: the holiday villa belonging to the Belgian Royal Family in Motril.
Mayor Stoned
by Martin Myall •
A man from Itrabo has been found guilty of attacking the a Guardia Civil policeman with an axe and throwing large stones and glass bottles at the Mayor.
Policeman Stabs Retired Bank Manager
by Louise Powell •
Sound likes it should be the other way around, but not so. The incident occurred in Valencia and involved a municipal policeman who had lost all his savings in a preference-shares deal
A drug-Dispensing Kiosk?
by Martin Myall •
The Salobreña Town Hall is taking steps to close down an ice-cream kiosk in Plaza Pushikino, where drugs and contraband tobacco was allegedly sold.
Artistic Almuñécar Benches
by David Darby •
The municipal workforce (the artistic arm) has been out creating beautifully decorated benches on the Almuñécar seafront. The first, at the bottom of Calle Marquita on the beach side of the roundabout (opposite Café Ayer) is just about completed.
Town Hall Eviction?
by Hugh MacArthur •
Before you jump to the conclusion that the Town Council has been evicted from the town-hall building, we should explain that it was a building that they had been leasing as a day centre for the elderly.
Confused with Drug Runners
by Hugh MacArthur •
A couple from Motril were arrested and “treated like narcos” in their own words by the police after they mistook medicine for drugs.