Alfacar, just outside Granada, has just held the IX Encuentro Internacional de Tiro con Arco, or in other words, the international archery championships – within the world archery fraternity, Alfacar is most definitely on the map!
Tag Archive for Andalusia
The Spanish region of Andalucia (Andalusia)
Almuñécar Hotel Branches Out
by Editor •
The owner(s) of Almuñécar’s Hotel Victoria Playa have purchased a plot of land on Playa Granada in Motril, quite close to Hotel Robinson, where they are going to build a 4-star hotel and multi-use centre.
Funding Blocked
by Editor •
The Tax Office (Hacienda) is withholding 400,000 euros from the Almuñécar Town Hall, for not having its accounting up to date. But Almuñécar is not alone in this because a total of 17 other municipalities have shared the same fate for the same reason.
Salobreña Debt Worry
by David Darby •
Yet another alleged failure to pay bills by the previous PP administration in the Salobreña Town Hall has come to light. This time it’s the company that has the contract to clean the streets, Fomento de Consrucciones y Contratas.
Nordic View
by Marianne Lindahl •
Autumn is Here
The older you get, the faster time flies. The signs of autumn are beginning to show here up North. The days are shorter, it is raining a lot, the forests are full of lingonberries and mushrooms and the elk hunt started today 24.9.
Drug Dealer Double Jeapordy
by Editor •
Low profiles and skylines are incompatible; in other words, if you’re doing something that you don’t want the police to find out about, keep out of trouble.
Medical Musings
by Wolfgang K Piller MD •
Axel and I have frequently written about the sense and nonsense of treatments, but hardly about tests. Tests are neither a magic wand to keep you healthy, nor to detect illness. For example everybody agrees on fasting blood sugar testing, but what does a normal result say? Everything and nothing. As a single test it may be useful to screen for diabetes, but a normal test does still not exclude it entirely.
Big Flag for Almuñécar
by David Darby •
Residents of Almuñecar will have noticed all the work going on around the fountain up on La Carrera de la Concepción roundabout (just across from the bus station).
Well, the work is all in aid of Columbus Day, which is this Wednesday, and the work includes an 18m flagpole, which will be situated in the fountain and will fly a Spanish flag which will probably be about the size of a small country. They are also trying to upgrade the entrance to Cl Puerta de Granada, which is the little lane from that area going up to the church and the Casa de Cultura, which is very difficult to drive into as you have to cross in front of the traffic lights.
Fire Above Cantarrijan
by Editor •
A mountain fire broke out on the 6th at Cerro Gordo, just below the parking area of the entrance road for Playa Cantarrijan. Fortunately, the rapid intervention of fire-fighting teams managed to extinguish the flames before they could spread further.
Students’ Power Protest
by David Darby •
Pupils at the IES Jose Martin Recuerda (secondary-education school) in Motril are protesting about the lack of electricity supply to their classrooms. In fact, the school has had no electricity since the beginning of the new term in September.