Fresh fish is in abundance here in Salobreña, you can purchase it at the large supermarkets, or in the Municipal Market building just off the square on Calle Garcia Lorca 5 days a week. The fresh fruit and veg market is held in the square Tuesdays and Fridays. You can also purchase cheap shoes, bags, clothing, housewares, toys etc. This is a great place to practice your Spanish.
Here is another fine example of one of the many homes decorated with potted geraniums and other lovely plants up in the old town.
A new service has arrived in the area to service the Mom’s and Dad’s on holiday. Toddlers On Tour Spain offers equipment rental to take the pain out of travelling. Baby cots, high chairs, car seats and more. “Pack Light, you know it’s right” is her motto. Her items are all new and very affordable and can be delivered right to your rental property. Check out her site, you never know! www.toddlersontourspain.com
Well as promised, here are a couple photos of the work being done up on Calle Antequera. It annoying, but they have re-routed the traffic down other streets. As I am sure anyone can appreciate, doing road works in the heat of the Spanish sun is not easy. Yesterday in the shade the air temp was 95F. So in fact, my hat goes off to these guys for getting a hard job done.
I snapped these 2 pics early yesterday morning on my way to work. Who knows what the story is, but I can tell you, that if you continue on down the road, you will come to the golf area and just beyond that, is the land of discos and late night beach bars… so maybe intoxication is to blame.. This poor chappy has landed himself into the canal that runs either side of road.
I just received a comment from one reader regarding the amount of construction going on up in the old town at the moment. We do indeed have construction going on here at the moment and it is concentrated right up in the old town on Calle Antiquera which is one of the main roads down from the top of town. My own street, was under siege for almost 10 months, so I well know the agro involved with the streets being torn up.
What the town is doing, is laying new sewer pipes throughout the town. This involves a lot of jack hammers, digging and laying of new pipe and then new stone. Don’t even ask about the dust OY! The town is systematically going street by street and although annoying and tedious, it is very necessary. The construction mentioned in the comment, has been going on now since February.. These are huge undertakings that unfortunately take months to complete. The streets are narrow and quite steep which only adds to the already difficult task of construction in the hot sun.
I am truly sorry you had a disappointing visit. It is such a lovely town, but I think what a lot people forget, is that this is a working village, and not strictly a vacation resort. The people here need the new services being installed and are happy that the town is doing it even if it causes temporary traffic hardships. The amount of water damage that has been done to many of the homes here over the years do to cracked and rusted run off pipes is unbelievable. We look on it as a good thing in the long run as once it is complete, all will be well with the world again. If anyone is coming to Salobreña and would like to know the current construction situation at any given time, please don’t hesitate to contact me, and I will advise accordingly.. Similarly, if you have any other queries regarding the area, I would be most happy to answer any and all questions. Pictures later today of the construction mentioned above.
I photographed this fantastic plant yesterday, I may have altered the colors somewhat.
When I came across this bit of creative driving.
There is a bit of a steep hill on a turn that led to this.. Our driver was going too fast and hit the steps and, well you can see.. this is exactly how they do those spectacular car flips in the movies.. well almost, they use a small ramp. You accelerate as two wheels go over the ramp and voila you are over. Notice the left front wheel is actually resting on the wall of the house.
Salobreña is so small that we don’t even have traffic lights.. Oh they put them in years ago, but in the 8 years that I have lived here, they have yet to be put into use. We prefer the almighty round-about. We have rules like all societies, it’s just that no one pays any real attention to them. Stop signs really mean.. um slow down take a look and then proceed. No parking means you can kinda park here if it is late enough at night, and you move it first thing in the morning. You can park on a crosswalk, especially if in doing so you are double parked at the time..No one gets too fluffed about it, however as a driver from another country, it can be quite daunting… I snapped this picture yesterday of a no parking sign yesterday. This has been chained to this no parking sign for about 6 months.
