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ROYAL ESTATES

NOT A PRETTY SIGHT

Calle San Sebastián is - or was - one of Jimena’s more picturesque streets. The top end, where it meets Jincaleta, is now devoid of plants and planters. The bench there is practically destroyed. Neighbours complain of a bunch of some 10 or 12 children gathering there every evening to play football up against the [...]

TAXI RANK MOVES

Well, yes, the taxi rank has moved to round the corner on Calle Jincaleta, but nobody seems to have told the taxi drivers: they are still parking at their old place opposite the banks, amongst the rubble of renewed roadworks there. From these pictures it would seem the neighbours don’t know, either. And it’s not [...]

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Life is much calmer when we remember that who we are and what we do are not the same. Anonymous

TRAFFIC CHAOS - AGAIN

Without warning and probably without thinking, work started again yesterday on the street around the main square, El Paseo. Traffic is once again being diverted up Calle Larga and right at Jincaleta; to head up or down Calle Sevilla is a matter of conjecture. Why doesn’t anybody think to warn traffic ahead of time and [...]

ANDALUCÍA ELECTION RESULTS

Further to our brief report on the national elections posted yesterday, these are the results for the Chamber of the Autonomous Region of Andalucía. As you can see from the graph, the PSOE is once again elected to power. In fact, the party has been in power since the advent of democracy thirty years ago. [...]