Tag Archive for andalusia

Saved from Ruin

Do you remember August 2007 in Almuñécar? Here’s a clue; the streets were stacked with accumulating rubbish, left uncollect in the sweltering summer heat…

Volatile Marital Row

The Spanish say, “tirar la casa por la ventana” which means, to spare no expense, but in this case, somebody in Granada literally did throw the furniture out of the window

Emergency Beach Drill

The Almuñécar emergency services have held a drill to test their coordination and execution skills. The scenario was an angler falling into the water near a groyne.

Useless Roundabout

I had gone down to Chiringuito El Peñon in Salobreña at Friday lunchtime on my bike – only a lunatic uses a car on the Costa Tropical in July – and there it was, a bus stuck on the roundabout.