Nerja News

Yesterday was, of course, St Patrick’s Day and it was time to put on the funny hats.  Quite a lot of celebrating throughout the day with Irish Soup or Stew being on the menu in many places.

The evening, however, seemed to be a rather subdued affair. In fact, it was the quietest I’ve seen it in all the time I have been living in Nerja. The Irish bars are normally packed on this evening, but not this year for some reason. Except for Irish Annie’s, where even the terrace was full.

Another noticeable thing was that a great number of those walking round the town during the evening wearing the ‘funny hats’ were Spanish. The times they are a changing, to be sure.

I received an email from Karen in which she recounted a rather unfortunate experience resulting from a visit to Nerja in November 2009 and a solution to which is still not forthcoming. Rather than paraphrase, here is the full, completely unedited email: more »

Somewhat disturbing to hear, although unconfirmed, that one local business was handed a €3,000 fine for trying to stay open during renovations. They were apparently ‘ordered’ to close while work was carried out in front of their premises.

Businesses are struggling and it is a little incongruous that projects aimed at ’stimulating the local economy’ result in someone being ordered to close and, therefore, actually lose money.

El Rey Alfonso on the Balcon de Europa now has regular ‘live’ music nights.

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Millions and millions are being pumped into local municipalities in attempts to revitalise local economies and the talk is of ’sustainable’ growth, ’sustainable’ tourism, ’sustainable’ economy and ’sustainable’ just about everything else. But is it working? more »

The new Indian restaurant in avenida Castilla Perez is now open for business, the hours being 12:00 to 16:00 and 18:00 to 24:00. They also do a full take away service. Would love to hear reviews from anyone who has already tried it…Email… more »

Gone is the plumbing and bathroom appliances shop on calle Chaparil but there is a new business opening directly across the road.

The new business set to open is ‘Olivares International Food Product / Olivares Degustación Internacional’. more »

The new underground rubbish containers in calle Jaén, installed about a month ago, are still not in use. Hopefully it won’t take as long as it did in Plaza Tutti Frutti!

There are signs up in calle Granada advising no parking due to the upcoming Carnaval procession. As calle Granada is currently closed due to the bottom end being dug up, hope someone hasn’t had the bright idea of leading the procession down there and then trying to back them out! Presumably as the the signs ‘always’ go in calle Granada, that’s where they get put, regardless.