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Protest in Almería |
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The protest against 'illegal' property, callous demolitions, 'land-grab', property fraud, corruption, venality and arbitrary and unfair politics takes place in Almería City on January 9th. See http://spanishshilling.blogspot.com for details/story.
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| 6/1/2009 |
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Turkey Time |
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November 21st... heading in to Thankgiving Day (Thursday Nov 27th)... but the Christmas lights and Klaus' Santa Claus are already up and twinkling down here at the Parque Comercial. While money is short this season, let's not forget it's time to listen to the kids and the ladies and to get out that credit card for some serious plastic surgery.
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| 21/11/2008 |
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Clean and Scrubbed |
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Mojácar has gone through a couple of wet weeks, although nothing on the scale of Valencia which has had several serious days of flooding. Today the sun is back in the sky and our area, despite the presence of a few fresh (and remarkably lively) mosquitoes, looks clean and scrubbed.
Check out our webcam for a glimpse.
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| 15/10/2008 |
Lenox Napier writes...
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September Song |
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Mojácar has shaken off the summer lethargy and now the schoolchildren are back at their studies and those who could afford it are back from their holidays in the Caribbean. There’re a few more four-wheel drives cruising the streets than before, even if the building and real estate industries have hit the skids. We’ve even had a good gully-washer to clean up the town and beach. The weather has cooled down to ‘perfect’ and I even pulled the eiderdown onto the bed last night. The only threat on the horizon is the Junta de Andalucía’s bullish plans to build tens of thousands of homes in the wind-swept and blasted no-man’s land of the Llano Central. See www.theentertaineronline.com for regular updates on this worrisome interference from the Seville government in our local affairs.
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| 26/9/2008 |
Lenox Napier writes...
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School is Back |
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School begins today for all our little ones. In our local ‘village’ schools, the teachers have a few problems not faced in other parts of Andalucía. A goodly proportion of the class will be ‘foreign’ – a mixture of all sorts depending on the larger community outside. Some kids will be integrated but others will be new to the school or the language. There will be kids monolingual in English or Romanian, Chinese, Arab and Russian. South American kids, German and French kids. How do the teachers cope? Mostly – not very well. After all, they are just village schools with village-school funding. Do the teachers favour the local kids over the foreigners? Well, perhaps.
Foreign kids will learn Spanish pretty fast (depending on the number of other foreign kids in their class). Kids usually speak fluent Spanish in a question of months. However, don’t let them forget their own language – make sure they get extra schooling in spelling, writing and reading.
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| 15/9/2008 |
Lenox Napier writes...
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Red Rain |
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They say that it's the dust kicked high into the sky over the Sahara during a sand-storm, carried in huge billowing clouds along the stratosphere and across the Mediterranean Sea and then thrown down in a mild but dirty rainstorm over Mojácar. Today, everthing is red from the muddy rain-drops. The cars, the walls and, of course, the laundry. Well, perhaps it's the first sign of the end of the summer. The next sign - he laughed - will be the lowering of the prices in the bars and restaurants...
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| 9/9/2008 |
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Happy Days |
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thunder-flashes to waken us up (well, catupult us from our beds) to announce that the Mojácar fiesta is open for business. Question to be asked… how much do they spend on gunpowder…?
From the old days of the village band (we used to have to borrow the one from Vera) tootling out a merry tune or two followed by a slightly overdressed pop-group from Almería as we eyed up the foreign girls and danced under the paper lanterns and strings of flags in the Plaza Nueva to the twenty-first century where we totter about with our hands over our ears as the engineer coaxes another kw out of the loud-speakers. The fiesta is an event to be enjoyed and cherished. It’s going to come in through the windows anyway, so you might as well put your glad rags on and show up!
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| 27/8/2008 |
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Summer Hols... Starting soon! |
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The final ten days of August: just one… more… giant meal on the beach, thrash at the disco, swim in the sea, trawl around the shops, visit to the pueblo before our visitors must look to their suitcases and depart (oww… mind that sunburn!) back to Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.
The ‘full summer’ season ends in Mojácar with the fiestas, which this year will be held on August 27th – 30th. In fact, the final firework show late on that last Saturday night is the symbolic end of the commercial summer thrash – and of course the beginning of the residents’ summer season.
Ahhh… those empty beaches and welcoming restaurant owners… Bliss!
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| 20/8/2008 |
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Summer Holidays and the Residents |
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They say that this week, culminating in the fiesta (bank holiday) on Friday August 15th, is the beginning of the end of the summer holiday onslaught. Local residents will once again be stirring from their homes to check out this year’s new crop of bars and restaurants.
Summer is, of course, far from over. The heat and the cicadas are with us in force, but there will soon be less frustration, fewer queues and – with the honourable exception of Mojácar’s noisy fiesta which falls on August 27th through 30th – a bit less noise.
Fancy a swim, or a quiet drink in one of our beach-bars?
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| 11/8/2008 |
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Hot and Full |
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Well, it’s hot. Spain’s undergoing a heat-wave with temperatures in the forties. Here on the coast, it’s hard to sleep at night without a fan.
It’s also full. Cars are backed up on the Mojácar road down to the beach around lunchtime and they are solid along the beach from around 11.00am until 2.00pm and then again in the early evening. The other place where you will find plenty of visitors, tourists and residents alike is in the supermarkets.
Perhaps the bars and restaurants are taking slightly less this year as people try to save a bit here and there on their holiday expenses. But August is ‘sagrado’; it’s the sacred holiday month where lawyers, architects, dentists, doctors, politicians and other professionals (except writers) hang a sign outside their offices that reads: ‘volveremos en septiembre’. ‘We’ll be back in September’!
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| 5/8/2008 |
Lenox Napier writes...
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The News Must Go Out! |
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Man it's hot! I've been out in the old coche since Wednesday distributing copies of both of our newspapers, The New Entertainer and El Indálico. I've been in Bédar, Turre, Mojácar Pueblo and Garrucha. I've been in Los Gallardos and Antas and Vera and Cuevas. Tomorrow I'll be doing Sopalmo, Carboneras and Agua Amarga. Waaah - and the traffic! Another car does the other areas, above all the costa, but at least they have air conditioning in their transport! I need a swim - if there's any room left in the sea!
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| 1/8/2008 |
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Who and What We Are (Who, Who) |
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We are involved in a new task, a new labour-of-love. This webpage is a complete and independent page for the southeastern region of Almería, its residents and friends. We have a variety of material here, including our two monthly newspapers, El Indálico and The New Entertainer, a library of back issues; local news as it arrives in our offices, a web-cam (a view from our office terrace of the beach in Mojácar), classifieds and other wonders, including a link to The Entertainer Online, a well-respected non-commercial site with news, opinion, a blog and around 150 links to interesting local sites.
Here, I’ll try and keep this new section flowing: fresh and informative. Check us out each day!
If you want to write to us, our address is magazine@elindalico.com
Lenox
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| 29/7/2008 |
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Speed Traps |
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Trafico has gone a step further than its overhead gantries on the motorways wth sneaky cameras hidden behind them to help fund their Widows and Orphans collection. They now have those hard-to-spot British style road-side cameras. Almería province is getting five more of these filthy things including one on the Mojácar/Carboneras road at KM 28.9 (where the speed limit is 50).
Meanwhile, the Minister for Industry has presented his new plans to cut energy consumption, to include lowering the speed limits approaching cities by 20%.
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| 29/7/2008 |
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