Tag Archive for Poniente

Bad Parking

A small speed boat or motor launch came to grief on the rocks at the end of the Fuente Piedra breakwater, which is more or less in front of Las Gondolas, Almuñécar.

Blasting Boob

People were astounded to hear that workers on the high-speed-train line outside Loja managed to seriously weaken a standard railway bridge during blasting operations.

The Pleasant Hells

Close to the town of Loja, which is the capital of the Poniente de Granada, or western Granada, Río Genil runs through a 20m-deep canyon, after flowing over a waterfall called, Cola de Caballo (Horse Tail).

Fire Station Flounders

Work on the new area (comarcal) fire station in Loja has ground to a halt after the construction company went bust, and it is not the first time that Loja has seen a virtually completed project wallow, dead in the water.

Justifying A Salary

At a time when many people have no job, no savings, no income, the fact that we have 445,568 politicians drawing salaries from public funds is beyond comprehension for the average Spaniard.

Trousers-Around-Ankles Trick

A prostitute has been arrested for robbing a client, taking advantage of the fact he was in the middle of an orgasm – is nothing sacred?
The 43-year-old sex worker on her knees in front of the man – no imagination needed to work out what was happening – when, taking advantage of the the fact that the man was distracted by his own ejaculation, she pushed him over backwards, and as his trousers were around his ankles, he fell flat on his back.

Many Bars But Few Inhabitants

Granada has always been a province with a swarm of small bars – just about every ground floor of a block of flats has one… or two, but the town that has proportionally more bars than any other is little old Moraleda de Zafayona.

Socialist Mayor’s Selling Spree

Granada’s PP has formally denounced the Socialist mayor of Loja, Miguel Castellano, for allegedly selling off plots of land at “laughably” low prices to intimates, fellow-travellers, and others favoured by the Socialists.