
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.
The Salobreña night-time, street markets began on the Friday the 7th and will run every Friday throughout the summer until the 1st week of September.
Salobreña was the epicentre of national media interest today, thanks to a Spanish cartoon character, Tadeo Jones; brickie turned Indiana Jones, hence the surname.
The Salobreña dependency, La Caleta, is holding its annual fiestas from the 13th to the 16th of this month. But before that, on the 8th, the Feria del Dia opens.
Salobreña held a condom-use campaign on the 1st of July aimed at youngsters entitled, Con Condón No Hay Sustos (With A Condom, There’re No Scares).
The Mayor of Salobreña, María Eugenia Rufino, met with the Area Chief of Telefónica, María Jesús Almazor, about the building of a optic-fibre FTTH system in the town.
Cleaning crews in Almuñécar picked up a total of 25 tonnes of rubbish from its beaches: Puerta del Mar, Fuente Piedra, and Cristóbal saw the greatest concentrations.
Salobreña is no stranger to mindless vandalism but even so, each time it occurs it hurts on a collective level: this time it was the public toilets in the sports stadium.
Salobreña Blue Zones are in force, although thanks to the new hotel area work, there are fewer Blue-Zone spaces this year.