Costa Tropical News

The Sub-Saharans were travelling in two patera boats
68 immigrants who were travelling in two small patera boats have been rescued off the coast of Motril.
The group, all from the Sub-Sahara, were attended to by the Red Cross on their arrival in Motril port. There were five women and a child among them.
The first of the [...]

Spanish Sports News

He will thus be reunited with coach Jose Mourinho, under whom he played at FC Porto from 2001 to 2004 and at Chelsea from 2004 to

Real Madrid Transfer News Ricardo Carvalho from Chelsea a two-year contract 8 million euros deal
Madrid – Real Madrid have signed veteran defender Ricardo Carvalho from Chelsea for 8 [...]

Spanish Sports News

The Real Madrid captain is expected to sign for the German club, Schalke 04
Club Chairman, Florentino Pñerez said that Raul had done his duty as the best of the best, after those assembled watched a video which showed the career of the player since his first goal against Atlético de Madrid in the 1994/5 season, [...]

Spanish Sports News

Two points remain between Real Madrid and Barcelona
It was a 6-2 thrashing for Real Madrid against Villarreal on Sunday, with Cristiano Ronaldo on top form, scoring a great goal from a free kick and taking part in three more. It means the gap at the top of the table remains two points after Barcelona found [...]

Costa Tropical & Spanish Property News

As the sale of Spanish property registered an increase of 10.7 per cent in the first half of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009, the property prices have seen a drop of 4.3 per cent in July compared to the same month in 2009.
The Spanish Property Market Index, published by Tinsa revealed how prices [...]

Costa Tropical & Spanish Property News

According to a recent study by the Fundación Colegio Libre de Eméritos Universitarios around a quarter of Spain’s construction companies have closed shop. A total of 170,000 companies in the construction industry have closed their companies during the years 2008 and 2009.
The majority of all closures (63.5 per cent, around 108,000 companies) have closed in [...]

Costa Tropical & Spanish Property News

Spain’s banks are deliberately stifling the property recovery they are desperate to see by screwing agency commission rates down to 1.5% to 3%; and by forcing developers to the wall.
Agents and developers are getting increasingly frustrated with the inept way in which the Spanish banks are trying to offload their huge glut of repossessed properties.
“It’s [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

The government is making working people pay who had no responsibility in creating the crisis. This is unjust.”

Spanish steps towards general strike say two biggest trade union confederations
If you are holidaying in Spain this year you may learn a couple of new words – huelga general. In the coming days and weeks the Spanish [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Spanish Air Traffic Controllers voted on Tuesday to start strike action after August 15th, but they failed to decide on a concrete date at this stage.
A three day stoppage is planned and is expected to start on either the 18th or the 20th of August. The union is to meet on Wednesday to decide on [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

This month La Bamba have entertainment every Thursday and Saturday.
This includes Live Singers, Live Bands, Flamenco Shows and much more.
For all you sports fans they have 3 large Plasma TV’s showing football matches and they also have a large Pool Table.
For entertainment schedule details call 958 827 167 or 645 090 457.

Cortijo La Torrera now [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

The annual Rock Concert in Castell de Ferro is at the far west end of the beach and begins at 10:00 on Saturday 31st July.

Costa Tropical Business News

“Life in Color”  :: “La Vida en Color” - an art exhibition by artist Anna DiGesu

When trying to describe Anna Digesu’s work, the word that springs to mind most is ‘color’. Anna is a master colorist, using her expressive, fluid style to capture her figures in fleeting moments and with gentle poise. Working in [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

TheTrentham Shakespeare Company is coming to our area to perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The company was formed in 2006 and the company’s first production was in fact A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and included many of the actors who will be performing here in Spain.
Director and founder of thge company is Brian Rawlins, who began his [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Tapas is the name of a wide variety of appetizers in Spanish cuisine. They may be cold (such as mixed olives and cheese) or warm (such as puntillitas, which are battered, fried baby squid).
In North America and the United Kingdom, tapas have evolved into an entire cuisine. In these countries, patrons of tapas restaurants can [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Hidden down a backstreet but only 20 metres from the beach is a little gem.  I’m not sure I should tell everyone as I feel I want to keep this to myself for fear of spoiling things.  There is, in Castell de Ferro a renaissance happening.  The big wide wide world has finally getting a [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

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One of my local bars Torrera Alta is just off the main road from Castell de Ferro toward Lujar in the Costa Tropical. Now wait for it…. run by a South African (Leon) and his Spanish wife (Anna) they have a [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Does Spain have the slowest and most expensive internet broadband service in the whole of Europe? According to a group who should probably know better than most, the Spanish Association of Internet Users, it certainly does. In the first month of this year, the Association complained about the declining number of ADSL connections (the most [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Motril and sugar are synonymous.
Now I don’t consider myself obese but at 19 stone I am considered morbidly obese on the BMI index.  A few to many years without a gym, too much amber nectar and a perchance for a curry could have contributed to my needing to “lose a bit” I agree.
It doesn’t help [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

I have just read that visitor numbers are down by about a quarter, recently Sevilliana got everyone’s bills wrong and  Iberbanda lost service for weeks on end.
So what is the common denominator between these events?
Lack of service (in the case of Iberbanda, in more ways than one).
It just seems that the Spanish in general either
1) [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

The plan comes in response to an alleged work to rule being carried out by the Tráfico agents
Spain’s traffic Guardia are, from this month, being assessed for the number of fines they issue. The group which represents them, the AUGG, claims the move is an attempt to stop their so called ‘dropped ball point pen [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

Legal action against a masturbation workshop has been thrown out of court in Extremadura
Clean hands no, Masturbation yes.
The Prosecutors’ Office of the High Court in Extremadura has archived the case brought by the far right wing group ‘Manos Limpias’ (Clean hands) against masturbation classes being promoted by the Junta de Extremadura.
The classes aimed at adolescents, [...]

Costa Tropical Business News

The promoters of this club, the company Vimetera SL, then appealed to the court of administrative law number 2 of Girona, which ruled against them
Catalunya – Building company wins planning appeal to build 100 room brothel
A ruling from the Superior Tribunal de Justicia de Catalunya requires the City of La Jonquera (Girona) grant planning permission [...]