Ryanair Cabin Crew to Strike on 25 and 26 July in Four Countries

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Summer holiday disruption for air countries where they are based, Workers based in passengers is expected after Ryanair rather than applying Irish legisla- Spain, Portugal, cabin crew in four countries an- tion to contract conditions. nounced in Brussels on Thursday The company has around 1,800 Italy and Belgium that they will go on strike on 25 and cabin crew based in Spain, many of 26 July. Representatives of unions them in Malaga, and 4,000 across demand better from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Bel- the four countries, working on 2,000 gium explained that the workers flights a day. Ryanair has responded, working conditions were calling for the airline to com- defending the conditions of its em- ply with the labour laws of the ployees. P5 22222222 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Vélez-Málaga town hall searched and Local ‘Operation Creeper’ involved Police chief quizzed in backhander inquiry 92 searches across Spain The mayor of the Axarquía district has :: SUR denied the council has any MALAGA The wider operation involvement and nobody covered over 20 town halls, in- from the municipality has cluding Vélez-Málaga. In the raids this week, 39 people nationwide been charged were detained and for the moment 18 will be investigated fur- :: AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ / JUAN ther by a judge for their alleged CANO involvement in corruption in the VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA. The town hall awarding of police traffic man- in Vélez-Málaga and the Local Po- agement software contracts. In lice headquarters were raided by total, 92 searches were carried National Police officers as part of out and some involved politicians a nationwide anticorruption op- from the PP, PSOE and Ciuda- eration on Tuesday. The inquiry danos parties. The Local Police concerns alleged backhanders in chiefs in Oviedo (Asturias) and the awarding of contracts for traf- Fuenlabrada and Pinto (Madrid fic control systems. The inquiry region) were also arrested. Sacyr, centres on a Catalan supplier of the owners of the company under highway technology to police investigation, has announced an called Aplicaciones Gespol, part of internal inquiry as well. the Sacyr group. The National Police operation The searches in Vélez-Málaga is led by the force’s specialist anti- were part of a widespread opera- corruption unit, UDEF, and has tion covering over 20 municipali- National Police officers outside Vélez-Málaga town hall on Tuesday during the search. :: EFE been named ‘Operación Enredad- ties across the country. Officials at era’ (Operation Creeper). Among the town hall were taken by sur- Searches started before 8am and for information about Gespol. chief told reporters that her client the alleged crimes being investi- prise, including the mayor, Anto- went on until 11am at the Local Po- The mayor said: “Vélez-Málaga denied any knowledge of the com- gated are misappropriation of pub- nio Moreno Ferrer. The head of the lice offices and 12.30pm at the town town hall has had no business rela- pany being investigated and had not lic funds, embezzlement, brib- Local Police, a town-hall controlled hall. Copies of hard drives with con- tionship with the group of compa- answered questions as he wasn’t al- ery, false documenting, interfer- service, was taken from his home tract information were taken from nies investigated and no council poli- lowed to hear full details of the in- ing with a price in a public ten- to be questioned at the National Po- each building. According to the tician is being investigated”. quiry. He was allowed to return der and belonging to a criminal lice’s station. mayor, officers were only looking The solicitor of the Local Police home without any charge. organisation. July 6th to 12th 2018 3 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Court in Fuengirola has to rewrite 394 case files destroyed by mistake

The 78 boxes of and nobody had realised. documents were A source at the Junta de Anda- lucía says the boxes were stacked accidentally removed up and somebody who worked at from the archive and the judicial archive accidentally destroyed in October last included them with others which had been authorised to be removed year and nobody realised and destroyed. The contract for the company :: A. FRIAS/J. CANO which ran the archive ended in MALAGA. A Fuengirola court is April, and after putting it to ten- preparing for an extra-heavy work- der, a different company is now The destruction of legal documents has to be authorised by a special committee. :: SUR load in the near future: the Anda- running the facility. lusian High Court (TSJA) has or- to each case, including original docu- Not an easy task against such a decision. The Junta dered it to recollate all the infor- Permission has to be granted ments or court decisions which had Reconstructing the files will not de Andalucía also says that some mation lost when 394 files of legal If a judicial file is to be destroyed, already been taken. “For example, be an easy task. The process is laid of the documents in the files, but proceedings were accidentally de- permission has to be granted first if a couple have applied for a legal down by law, which says that the not all, will have been digitised so stroyed last year. by a committee formed by members separation and signed an agreement, parties involved must provide all that information can be retrieved. The matter only came to light of the Andalusian High Court and that agreement will be kept in the the documents they have so they Unions have been complaining recently when a lawyer went to the regional government’s Justice file. If things go badly and one of can be included in the file. If they for some time that the judicial ar- the court to ask for information ministry. This is normally done to them wants to use the agreement are willing to comply, have the chives are overcrowded, and the about a case he was handling. He clear space in the court archives. The as evidence for a claim, it won’t ex- documents or these can be obtained Junta recently invited bids from was informed that the proceedings committee decides whether the files ist any more because it has been de- again, there is no problem, but if companies to construct a 45,000- had been cancelled because 78 can be removed and destroyed, or stroyed. A situation could arise not then the matter has to be taken square-metre storage facility for boxes of legal files which were whether they should be passed to where one of them has lost their to a higher court, which will de- the legal files. Unfortunately only stored offsite at the Junta de An- other administrations. copy, and the other one claims they cide how the files have to be recon- one company was interested and dalucía’s archive on the Malaga One lawyer with clients affected don’t have theirs either, because stituted or will decree that this was turned down because it failed technology park (PTA) had been by this error says that the boxes con- that would work in their favour,” would prove impossible. Any of the to meet the requirements, so for destroyed by mistake last October tained everything which is relative he explains. parties involved could appeal the moment it cannot be built. 4 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

time before this, coming as a re- 112 REPORTS Drug trafficking gang operating sult of a tip-off from a joint police operation between officers in Bra- Man shot four times zil and Portugal. Having discovered that a deal had been sealed for outside Mijas bar through Algeciras brought down the buying and selling of cocaine in Madrid, the UCO aimed to iden- LAS LAGUNAS with the arrest of 21 people tify those involved immediately :: J. CANO. A man was taken to upon their entry into the country. Costa del Sol hospital in the early As a result, they learned of the ex- hours of Wednesday morning af- istence of an organised criminal ter receiving four gunshot Investigations by the gang located in the Campo de Gi- wounds. Guardia Civil have led to braltar region and with a network Emergency services were of traffickers based in Spain and called to a bar on Calle Dionisio these arrests, many of elsewhere. in Las Lagunas after receiving whom were port The investigators identified four several calls that gunshots had workers facilitating the tiers to the organisation, made up been heard. entirely of Spaniards. At the top It is understood that the at- trafficking of cocaine (the ringleaders) and at the bot- tack came after an argument in- tom, those involved had criminal side the bar. At the time of going :: JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS pasts. But those in the second and to press, the perpetrator had not MALAGA. The Guardia Civil have third tiers, who mostly worked in yet been tracked down. brought down an organised crime Algeciras port, had a clean record network committed to the import and were well organised and pre- Six arrests bring down and export of large quantities of pared to offer their services to traf- drugs through the port of Algeciras. fickers. local drug network Officers from the Unidad Central They controlled the shift pat- Operativa (UCO) have arrested a to- terns of those involved in patrols BENALMÁDENA tal of 21 people, ten of whom worked in the port to ensure that when :: E. P. A drug network in at the port in the storage and trans- shipments of interest were pass- Benalmádena has been disman- portation of containers. In the op- Many of those arrested worked in Algeciras port. :: SUR ing through, they were not sub- tled by the National Police fol- eration, known as ‘Allis Ubbo’, a ship- jected to any inspections. lowing the arrest of six people ment of 480 kilogrammes of cocaine On 10 January, investigators According to the Guardia Civil, se- However, at the start of May, a who sold marijuana, hashish and was also intercepted. caught wind of a meeting between curity measures at the meetings of police task force intercepted 480 cocaine in the main nightlife Investigators in this case carried various ringleaders of the now dis- the group’s ringleaders had been in- kilogrammes of cocaine which had spots in the town. Primarily out a large number of surveillance mantled group and a Marbella resi- creasing. In such meetings, they arrived from Guayaquil (Ecuador) workers in bars and clubs in the operations which allowed them to dent known as ‘El Maradona’. Four agreed upon a 30 per cent commis- as it was about to be smuggled out area, they used their own homes successfully locate a large network of months later he was shot dead out- sion on the price of each shipment of of Algeciras port in a lorry. for storage and preparation for traffickers across most of Europe. Dur- side a church in San Pedro where drugs successfully moved from con- With these arrests, the Guardia sale. 48 grammes of cocaine, 147 ing one such operation, one new his son had just had his first com- tainers onto trucks. Civil consider that this organised of hashish, 522 of marijuana, name came up which would, months munion. A link between his killer crime network and the “principal 1,500 euros in cash and 16 mo- later, be making the headlines on the and this group, however, has been A complex network drug smugglers” in this port have bile phones were also seized. Costa del Sol. rejected. This investigation started a long been brought down. July 6th to 12th 2018 5 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Ryanair cabin crew in four Malaga port gives the Red Cross space for a European countries called to migrant attention centre strike on 25 and 26 July Premises will be turned sation will have to fit the prem- into a first aid centre ises out itself before it can start Workers based in Spain, attending to the health and so- and can be used by the Italy, Belgium and cial needs of the migrants res- organisation free of cued at sea and brought into Portugal want the charge for at least Malaga port. company to comply with The authorisation has been ap- three years the labour laws of their proved for an initial period of three years and the use of the home nations, while :: IGNACIO LILLO buildings is free of charge, after Ryanair argues their MALAGA. The Port Authority has the authority approved the ex- conditions are good approved giving the Cruz Roja (Red emption of fees. Cross) organisation authoritisation The president of the Malaga Port to use port premises for their work Authority, Paulino Plata, pointed :: PILAR MARTÍNEZ / EFE helping newly-arrived migrants. out that the Cruz Roja facility in MALAGA. Ryanair cabin crew in The premises, one larger space the port would allow the organi- four countries, including Spain, an- covering 406 square metres plus sation to offer first aid and attend nounced in Brussels on Thursday a smaller one, are located close to the needs of the migrants in bet- that they will go on strike on 25 and to the fishing quay. The organi- ter conditions. 26 July. The action comes after unions failed to obtain a commitment from the airline to apply the conditions Ryanair operates hundreds of flights from Malaga. :: REUTERS established in the labour laws in the countries in which the employ- in the event of a strike,” said Duth- called until now by Ryanair cabin ees are based - Spain, Portugal, It- iers, who asked the press not to take crew in Portugal, delays and cancel- aly and Belgium - rather than the photographs of the Ryanair staff lations of dozens of flights in the Irish legislation. present in the room to protect them. four countries are expected,” said Ryanair has responded, saying their “What no one understands is how Ernesto Iglesias, head of the Flight demands “don’t make sense”, bear- they have managed to get so far. We section at the USO Air Sector. ing in mind their current conditions. are talking about an Irish company In response to the strike an- The stoppages will be carried out in the European Union in the 21st nouncement on Thursday, Ryanair in all four countries, announced the century that has failed to comply defended the conditions currently unions Sitcpla and USO (Spain); with European and national regu- enjoyed by its cabin crew, who could SNVPAC (Portugal); UIL (Italy) and lations,” added Duthiers. earn up to 40,000 euros a year, “more CNE (Belgium). In the name of the employees, than twice the minimum wage”. The USO explained that more the unions reported practices such The employers also pointed out than 1,800 Ryanair cabin crew have as calling workers to airports to cover that they work for five consecutive been called to strike in Spain, with flights that in the end didn’t take days and then have three days off, Migrants rescued at sea arrive in Malaga port. :: SUR the figures reaching 4,000 in all four off and refusing to pay them for the which means they have a “long countries. The airline currently op- hours spent waiting, as well as ap- weekend” every week, conditions erates around 2,000 flights a day plying Irish or local legislation for that exceed the minimum require- Spain-Holiday laborating with the regional gov- from 89 hubs in Europe, 13 of them maternity and paternity leave, de- ments of the EASA (European Avia- ernment and encouraging clients, in Spain, including Malaga. pending on which was more bene- tion Safety Agency). removes 275 illegal owners and property managers to Sitcpla stated that some 120,000 ficial for the company. The airline went on to list more comply 100 per cent with the law,” passengers could be affected on each conditions that currently apply to tourist properties said Jannich Petersen, the com- day of the strike in Spain. Mediation hopes the cabin crew, such as sick pay, a from its holiday let pany’s managing director. “Ryanair must apply the national The USO has said that over the next 10% bonus for selling products in “This process has been labori- legislation to the crew’s contracts,” few days the Spanish unions will the cabin and an annual allowance platform ous and some of our clients have said a Sitcpla representative on attend a conciliation session at the of 400 euros for uniforms. had a lot of difficulties getting onto Thursday, adding that the airline mediation and arbitration service the register but we are very grate- should “incorporate the European SIMA, in an attempt to avoid the Irish pilots :: PILAR MARTÍNEZ ful that they have made the ef- values of dignity and respect”. strike and solve the conflict. If the The cabin crew action comes after MALAGA. Holiday rental plat- fort,” he said. The president of Sitcpla, Monique company does not attend or no the Irish Airline Pilots Association form Spain-Holiday, based in Removing properties from the Duthiers, said that those speaking agreement is reached the strike will (IALPA) called Ryanair pilots based Malaga, has removed 275 rental database, however, has a major in Brussels on Thursday were rep- go ahead as announced. in Ireland to strike on Thursday 12 properties within the region that impact on portals such as these. resentatives as the employees them- “The number of flights affected July. The head of Human Resources were not on the Andalusian Tour- While conceding that it has af- selves did not want to speak out in will depend on the minimum essen- at the airline, Eddie Wilson, has ism Register from its database. fected business, Petersen said that public. tial service regulations in each coun- called the pilots to a meeting on 11 “Ever since the regulations for he hoped to be able to get these “In 2018 in the EU there is still try: Allthough, based on the partici- July to negotiate and call off the tourist properties came in in 2016, 275 properties back on the data- fear of reprisals from an employer pation in the first and only strike strike. Spain-Holiday.com has been col- base “little by little”. 6 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

Malaga city to stop Aifos still tops the list of local firms with Uber and Cabify hovering near the biggest debts with the taxman airport, stations and shopping malls

The bankrupt developer MALAGA PROVINCE FIRMS THAT OWE THE TAXMAN MORE THAN 1 MILLION EUROS is the Spanish tax :: FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ Debtor Total debt outstanding Debtor Total debt outstanding MALAGA. Councillors in Malaga agency’s sixth biggest Aifos Arquitectura y P, Inmob, SA 98,616,318.02 Agrupación Inmobiliaria Eurosur SA 1,934,478.78 are studying ways to take action debtor and its owners Promotores y Consultores Ziur SL 37,715,758.61 Vannelet Gilles Charles Louis Pierre Yves 1,931,539.62 to stop private hire vehicles from and affiliates are also on Sun Farm SA 32,041,876.52 Metcalfe SL 1,888,254.35 companies like Uber and Cabify Eve Marina SL 30,883,763.94 C Y O Ingeniería SL 1,874,696.18 waiting close to airports, railway the black list Promociones Lorcrimar SL 25,463,359.30 Haviland Proyectos Inmobiliarios SL 1,863,844.68 stations or shopping centres, Europa Center SA 25,114,626.45 Sherry Mirador SL 1,811,829.74 ready to approach if a user calls :: NURIA TRIGUERO Grupo Empresarial Vera SL 15,744,850.19 Prom. y Construcción Azulejos y Pav. SL 1,703,857.55 them up over their phone app. Promociones Cuevas Sanchez SL 14,231,760.91 MALAGA. Aifos is once again the Cogilcodos SL 1,700,364.65 Private hire cars are not al- Draba SL 11,705,381.57 Costa del Sol firm which owes most Mainsa Instalaciones Industriales SA 1,677,089.00 lowed to pick up business in the Sofipar SA 11,647,735.19 to Hacienda, the Spanish tax agency. Blay Barrera María Del Carmen 1,673,547.16 street but some linger near to Petroazul SL 10,983,765.32 The developer, currently in a com- Mirador de Bellavista SL 1,667,472.17 busy buildings so as to show up plex and never-ending administra- Gestores De Estaciones Low Cost SL 8,854,369.64 as available to users searching for Suite Invest, SL 7,459,697.12 Edirecursos SL 1,648,865.02 tion process has an outstanding debt Marina Del Sol SA 1,639,455.71 them. This is upsetting taxi driv- of more than 98.6 million euros, Proex 2,000 SL 7,163,900.30 ers, who have the right to pick Borca 2000 SL 1,635,967.65 which makes it the sixth biggest Petraxarquía SL 7,095,292.83 up passengers in the street. Uber Urbanizacion Valle Rosario SL 1,606,746.09 debtor in Spain. Los Lagos Siglo XXI SL 6,700,893.23 recently started operating on the Since the Agencia Estatal de Ad- Naviro Inmobiliaria 2000 SL 6,372,732.16 Ponte Tresa SL 1,575,111.78 Costa del Sol and Cabify has in- ministración Tributaria (AEAT) - the Pitagoras Digital SL 6,266,188.29 Las Terrazas De Santa María SL 1,574,786.08 creased its fleet size this summer. official name of the tax agency that Ailime SA 6,195,958.43 Cec Centro Europeo De Congresos SA 1,557,689.20 Councillors and local police re- is more commonly known as Haci- Vograla SA 6,030,395.85 Hotel Rincón Andaluz SA 1,555,971.57 cently met with taxi-industry enda - started to publish its black list Sierra Blanca Properties SL 5,801,799.92 Dragon Real SL 1,546,540.54 representative’s to discuss a map at the end of 2015, Aifos has had the Milla Med SA 5,775,534.34 Tierra Util SL 1,536,687.25 which would show exclusion ar- dubious honour of being the biggest Aurigacrown Car Hire SL 5,678,718.07 Arcopel SL 1,529,101.12 eas around a list of places that debtor in the province of Malaga. Construcciones y Promociones Vistsolmar SL 5,293,234.43 Airport Parking SL 1,506,958.99 private hire vehicles can access What’s more, the second and third Aloha Hill Club SL 5,275,518.08 Autos Aragon Paz y Lopez SL 1,496,158.95 but not wait close to. positions on the list are occupied by Comp, Int, de Parques y Atracciones SA 4,870,326.96 Mardel Prom, y Consulting Inmobiliario SL 1,490,178.78 The council has been working firms with the same owner as Aifos: Dugarry Business Services SL 4,339,401.16 Rsp Gece SL 1,482,277.09 with the 1,432 taxi drivers to en- Viajes Marbesol SL 4,219,873.95 Promotores y Consultores Ziur, Objetivo Zero SL 1,462,007.95 sure their continued support af- Proyecto Ciudad Iliberis SL 4,156,745.82 which owes almost 38 million euros; Alessi Newyork SL 1,439,003.13 ter a strike was called last August Niza Cars SL 4,062,433.94 and Sun Farm, with a debt of 32 mil- Turret SL 1,434,837.53 partly in protest at the supposed lion. Their owner, Jesús Ruiz Casado, Marsella Servicios Integrales SL 3,999,173.84 lax policing of private hire cars. Mirador de Calahonda SL 3,870,526.65 Gesarce SL 1,432,862.37 also appears on Hacienda’s black list Escreyes SL 1,426,742.07 for individuals, owing more than ten Habitat de Estepona SA 3,859,860.31 Malaga Inv Inm Garpe SL 1,417,364.15 million euros; his wife, Teresa Mal- Viñuela Rural SL 3,823,908.00 Novasoft Ingenieria SL 1,343,808.87 donado Taillefer, has a similar amount Construcciones Migmar SL 3,716,766.61 New restaurant of unpaid tax outstanding. Private Axion Red SL 3,670,505.30 Biznauto Automoviles SA 1,320,573.91 individuals do not appear on this page, Novasoft Corporacion Empresarial SL 3,583,924.23 Bolichero 98 SL 1,292,988.14 choice landing however. Promociones Volterra 98 SL Unip 3,576,596.19 Ingeconser SA 1,285,302.15 The list published last week by Incipia Proyectos Inmobiliarios 3,527,702.44 Andalucia President Golf Club SRSL 1,262,307.51 soon for AEAT includes 150 firms, whose head- Construcciones Pelaez 3015 SL 3,524,509.79 Red Mediterranea Online SL 1,255,128.09 passengers at quarters are registered in Malaga prov- Mirador De La Fortaleza SL 3,480,832.26 Camimalaga SA 1,237,501.38 ince. The number has gone down with Jesaoil SL 3,272,071.90 Saint Ives Holdings SL 1,232,905.48 Malaga Airport respect to previous lists, which at one Maysap SL 3,255,416.99 Oro Flash Convert SL 1,224,100.20 point had as many as 200 debtors. Solares de Malaga SL 3,211,729.64 Geoylabs SL 1,211,004.39 Their total debt to Hacienda is more Isofotón SA 2,911,366.12 Axarquía de Urbanización SL 1,208,297.43 :: PILAR MARTÍNEZ than 652 million euros. Ingeniería y Construcciones Allue SA 2,822,707.66 Construcciones Andaluzas Litorales SL 1,201,878.15 MALAGA. Bosses at Malaga Air- Las Dunas Land SL 2,763,249.76 One new entry this year is Grupo A.R.F.Trust SL 1,191,137.43 port have just finished the ten- Euralex SL 2,745,689.96 Vera, which appears in seventh Costa Villaverde SA 1,187,638.77 dering process to refresh the se- Alimar Obras e Infraestructuras Sl 2,714,424.40 place among Malaga debtors with Contratas Arrosal SL 1,185,137.92 lection of bars and restaurants more than 15 million euros. This Oleoliva SA 2,674,658.48 for passengers. Coming in later Inmobiliaria Estabella SL 2,577,561.67 Canales Y Lumbreras SA 1,179,937.08 veteran construction firm had al- Stroiobect SL 1,174,661.22 this year is new sushi restaurant ready been through an administra- Construcciones y Promociones Florida Este SL 2,529,636.29 Kirei By Kabuki, by chef Ricardo Calahonda Royale SA 1,155,275.98 tion process, but last year it went Luitor SL 2,504,900.18 Sanz, and Bibo Brioche Bar by lo- Contacto Publicidad SL 1,142,268.17 into liquidation after it was unable Hermanos Macías García SA 2,483,478.32 cal Michelin chef, Dani García. to meet the deadlines established Las Dunas Palace SA 2,461,685.42 Servyguar Glez Glez SL 1,139,171.27 AENA, that owns and runs the by court to pay back creditors. The Residencial Guadalsol SA 2,418,621.93 Bazar San Juan SA 1,132,690.02 airport, recently put the con- list also includes Grupo Vera’s af- Marsella Numero 28 Promociones SL 2,327,241.80 Revestimientos Belda SL 1,130,491.55 tracts up for renewal for all 25 filiate Draba, with a debt of almost Prosec Promociones e Inversiones SLU 2,326,275.44 Restaura 3000 SL 1,129,013.98 food and beverage outlets for the 12 million euros. Diseño Motor 4 SA 2,326,056.74 Marsella Best SL 1,109,761.86 period 2018 to 2026. The aim, Construcciones López Porras SA 2,321,725.56 Kroond Residences SL 1,102,661.62 they explained, was to combine Bankrupt companies Wide Pictures SL 2,316,721.33 Margaretio Samper Guillermo 1,101,345.50 the latest international trends This Hacienda black list is dominated Láctea Antequerana SL 2,314,829.83 Rubikon Proyectos Y Reformas SL 1,095,461.80 with local cuisine. Most restau- by bankrupt construction firms and Romeo SL 2,293,152.37 Garcia Monserrat Amparo 1,091,258.30 rants will be operated by a small property developers, which makes Inmobiliaria Nueva Fuengirola SA 2,274,347.08 Reino De Taifas SL 1,080,880.38 number of multi-brand conces- it unlikely that the Spanish tax of- Suministros Jumarsa SL 2,232,572.56 Megainfor Components Electronic SL 1,075,406.95 sion holders, the biggest being Evemarina Hoteles SL Unipersonal 2,217,745.07 fice will recover its debts. This is the Central De Recursos En Internet SL 1,075,340.34 Select Service Partner (SSP), Eat Silicio Energia SA 2,201,765.18 case of Evemarina, Promociones Cue- K.S. Investments SA 1,067,502.97 Out Group, Lagardére Travel Re- Torresuel SL 2,199,599.62 vas Sánchez, Promociones Lorcrimar, Dogor Electronic’s SL 1,049,566.22 tail and Áreas. Hexa, Ingeconser, Construcciones Mihogar 2003 SL 2,141,039.37 Other choices to appear in the Malagueña De Proyectos y Serv, Electricos SL 2,122,198.35 Nail Services Banus SL 1,047,944.77 López Porras… Constrular 2000 SL 1,041,462.48 coming months are La Boutique Outside the property industry the Brisamar Cuatro SL 2,102,057.63 della Mafia, an Italian restau- Varo Martín Construcciones Y Contratas SL 1,033,090.84 presence of other firms that have Palma Residencia SA 2,047,368.03 rant, and a food-court concept Torcal Limpieza SL 1,025,199.62 been through an administration proc- Client Escrow Services SL 2,026,289.39 including Italian, Mexican and ess on the list, including Isofotón, Hexa Servicios Y Obras SL Unipersonal 2,007,835.63 Promociones Creta Costa Del Sol SL 1,024,649.26 Asian food. There will also be a Euralex, Novasoft, Oleoliva, Auri- Inverandaluz SL 1,995,408.80 Deisa Climat SL 1,020,244.99 better ‘grab& go’ selection in- gacrown Car Hire, Niza Cars or Mr Vemosur Desarrollos Inmobiliarios SL 1,963,111.12 Viva Estates Marsella SL 1,015,822.28 cluding Jamie’s Deli, Eat and Gi- Gold, comes as little surprise. Mr. Gold SL 1,945,778.85 Natiel 2000 SA 1,010,106.07 raffe Stop, among others. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 7 8 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

Marbella mayor Transparent soundproof panels on Ojén asks for Roca’s properties to be road have proven fatal for dozens of birds handed over for the town’s use A video condemning the roadside panels has gone :: HÉCTOR BARBOTTA viral, forcing authorities MARBELLA. The mayor of Mar- to alter them and bella, Ángeles Muñoz, has asked provoking a Guardia Civil the council to vote on her plan to demand that the national govern- investigation ment give the town seven properties owned by former town-plan- :: DANIEL DOLS ning head, Juan Antonio Roca, OJÉN. Dozens of blackbirds have who was the mastermind of the been found dead at the side of the Malaya corruption scandal. Marbella-Coín road near the Palo Marbella is due significant com- Alto housing development in Ojén pensation from the case generated after crashing into transparent from the ongoing sale of Roca’s as- noise-prevention panels. sets. However, to speed up the re- The situation has produced a turn of the money to the town, wave of criticism. Graffiti has ap- Muñoz wants 15-million-euros peared and activist group Marbella worth of property to be given di- Se Queja has created a viral video rectly to the council for public use. demanding that the panels be al- Among the properties is Roca’s tered. The Guardia Civil’s environ- former country home, Finca La mental protection unit (Seprona) Caridad, near San Pedro and val- has opened an investigation. Protesters painted graffiti on the panels in protest. :: JOSELE-LANZA ued at 5.7 million euros, a heliport Ojén council announced on Tues- near Nagüeles (769,000 euros), a day that they have arranged for the to reduce traffic noise but added pany had only planned to use luxury apartment in central Mar- panels to be provisionally covered that the council had asked them to opaque panels until new painted bella (2.6 million euros), and a half- to make them more visible to birds “use common sense” and make sure ones could be installed and it was built building by the hospital ear- and requested that the property that birds could spot the screens the council that preferred the clear marked as a new central courts developers responsible for the easily. ones. complex for the town. screens, Round Hill, come up with The screens will now be deco- Councillors have also debated a solution. Mayor’s version questioned rated with murals of birds and trees how to spend the 12 million euros The mayor, Jose Antonio Gómez, Director of Round Hill Spain, Matías and Round Hill has also promised recently handed to the town in said that Round Hill had permis- Villaroel, has disputed the mayor’s to make a donation to a bird cash by a court responsible for sell- sion to put up the panels in order comments, saying that the com- sanctuary. The new mural. :: SUR ing Roca’s assets. July 6th to 12th 2018 9 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS

HERE AND THERE Pablo Ráez’s legacy lives on in Marbella Town accused of failed dog beach promise

Local authorities ary 2017, more than 16,000 people MARBELLA joined the family of signed a petition to call for the :: M.P. A councillor for the IU town of Marbella to create a dedi- party on Marbella council has the young campaigner, cated public space which would accused the town hall of failing who died of pay tribute to the young local cam- to keep its promise to install leukaemia, to open a paigner. The authorities listened proper facilities at two beaches and opted to begin construction that were designated for use by new boulevard and on Arroyo Primero boulevard, on dogs last year. Miguel Díaz has walk in his memory the east side of the old town near said the planned showers, ex- the Monday market. The mayor of ercise areas and shady zones for :: MÓNICA PÉREZ Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, spoke pets haven’t materialised. MARBELLA. “Normally it’s the at the opening ceremony and said In reply the council has said children who remember the leg- that the new boulevard will be a that it is waiting for the plans acy of their parents, but in this case “meeting point” . She referred to to improve the beaches, at El it’s the reverse. I am proud and I’m Pablo as “one of Marbella’s most Pinillo and Ventura, to be ap- also joyful, because to think about loved and admired residents”. proved by the Junta de Anda- Pablo is to think about joy,” reflects Pablo Ráez boulevard boasts an lucía regional government. Paco Ráez, the father of Pablo Ráez open-air theatre, two playgrounds, who died over a year ago aged just six water-features , a cafe, grassed 20 after a difficult battle with areas, two outdoor gymnasiums, leukaemia. a recycling point and benches and Before his death, Pablo Ráez led sunshades to relax under. In the a huge social media campaign for future the boulevard will have a bone marrow donations in order to direct connection to Calle Alfredo help those who found themselves Raéz’s family and friends with the mayor at the opening. :: J-L Palma. in a similar situation to his own. As a result, the number of bone marrow donors in the province of Malaga increased by 1,300 per cent between 2016 and 2017. To honour the memory of local- boy Ráez, Marbella has opened a large pedestrianised park space on Arroyo Primero boulevard, which will take its name from the heroic young man. The town hall has in- The Nagüeles quarry site. :: J-L vested almost three million euros in the 15,000-square-metre area, which took over one year to build. Starlite venue planning Over the last few decades the space permit puzzle is solved has been mostly disused. “I hope that this will serve as an example for future projects,” MARBELLA stressed Paco Ráez, during a speech. :: M. P. The Starlite festival venue, He asked that the local authorities an old quarry in Nagüeles behind “always put their heart into what- Marbella, finally has all its plan- ever they do”. The firefighter also ning permissions and licences in stated that he wants the space to place. Question marks over per- be used by young people and that mission to use the venue have it is “somewhere for culture, enter- been hanging over the event for tainment, games and peace and the past two summers and at one quiet”. point threatened to see the con- After Pablo Ráez died in Febru- cert festival leave the town. The Junta de Andalucía regional government, which is the owner of the site, has agreed at Prosecuters seek 10 ESTEPONA last to let Marbella council lease the old quarry for up to 24 more years in jail for ex- COUNCIL WIDENS years. The council in turn sublets mayor of Estepona ITS ASSISTED it to Starlite. in corruption case BATHING SCHEME Agreement to record town’s 50,000 pets Last year Estepona launched :: HÉCTOR BARBOTTA an assisted sea bathing pro- MARBELLA MARBELLA. It is eleven years since gramme on Tuesdays and :: C. MORILLA. Marbella coun- an investigation began and 10 years Thursdays for all residents cil has been given ten pet mi- since ‘Operation Astapa’ was launched who receive the council’s crochip readers that will help it by police and courts which forced the home help service. Locals are identify the some 50,000 pets resignation of former mayor of Este- collected and taken to the in the town, 43,500 of which pona, Antonio Barrientos. Now prose- town’s Cristo beach, which are dogs. cutors have completed their formal has specially-designed Although it has been a re- written accusation of 51 people be- equipment for people need- quirement for several years for lieved to have been involved in the ing extra help to enjoy the animals to be chipped, the town scandal. Five former top officials and sea. This year the scheme has hasn’t carried out a proper cen- politicians could face trial and sen- been extended. On Wednes- sus or control. Now armed with tences of up to 10 years each. The ac- days it will be the turn of us- the donation from the official cusations centre on the period from ers of the APRONA mental- Malaga vets association, local 2003 when the mayor supposedly health charity and on Fridays police and officials will be able carried on spending, despite the coun- the turn of the Virgen del to carry out street inspections cil being in deficit, using backhanders Carmen residential home. :: CHARO MÁRQUEZ more frequently. and black money from developers. July 6th to 12th 2018 10 SUR IN ENGLISH July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 11 12 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

the district renamed, due to dis- HERE AND THERE How Rincón de la Victoria grew putes between the different local centres of population of Rincón, Rubén Portillo to open Benagalbón, Torre de Benagalbón from the village of Benagalbón and La Cala del Moral. Vélez-Málaga fair Up until 1835, Benagalbón and the area around it, including VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA Rincón de la Victoria, belonged po- :: E. C. Vélez-Málaga town hall has The town hall is litically to nearby Moclinejo, but confirmed that local flamenco gui- considering making 28 after a 12-year attempt to gain in- tarist, Rubén Portillo, will offi- dependence Benagalbón finally cially open this year’s San Miguel August an official achieved its goal on 28 August fair. A council spokesperson said holiday to mark gaining 1835. Portillo had been chosen, “in view independence from Now a proposal has gone to of the centenary of the death of Rincón de la Victoria town hall to Juan Breva and for being the pro- Moclinejo in 1835 make 28 August an official holi- tagonist of Flamenco Abierto day in the municipality to mark which has put Vélez on the map.” :: EUGENIO CABEZAS the course of its history and in par- RINCÓN DE LA VICTORIA. The ticular its separation from Doctors warn of A&E population of Rincón de la Victoria Moclinejo. has doubled in size in the last 20 The town hall has said that the staff shortage years, from 23,000 according to the proposal has been “well received” 2000 census, to 46,000 people ac- and will now be debated before go- TORRE DEL MAR cording to the latest figures. How- ing to a full council meeting by the :: A. P. Doctors at the Axarquía ever, it wasn’t until the arrival of end of July. The idea of four gold hospital in Torre del Mar have the Malaga to Zafarraya train in shields being awarded annually, warned about staff shortages in 1908 that the town, along with La presented to residents who have the Accident and Emergency unit Cala del Moral, which sits to the “offered their services” to the town, expected over the summer west and forms part of the area, be- Benagalbón hosts a Verdiales competition every September :: E. C. “whether they are Spanish or for- months, when the population of came anything more than vineyards eign” has been included in the pro- the area can more than triple. They and a very small fishing village. that Rincón de la Victoria once was land and still part of the same mu- posal. The Izquierda Unida party also said it was a problem across Delving further back into the governed from a town hall in the nicipality today. In the late 1940s (IU), who has submitted the pro- the Axarquía as other villages have area’s history, researcher and author, then larger village of Benagalbón, the town hall was relocated to posal, hopes to be get approval to also experienced staff shortages. Miguel Alba Trujillo, has revealed situated about six kilometres in- coastal Rincón de la Victoria and celebrate the day this year.

:: J. RHODES / E. CABEZAS Fifth Weekend Beach festival TORRE DEL MAR. The Weekend Beach festival, which is celebrating gets under way and reports its fifth anniversary this year, got under way on Wednesday night, with record pre-event ticket sales Malaga band, Danza Invisible, one of the most popular performances. Before the event started organisers announced record ticket sales, with 35,000 sold compared to 33,000 in 2017. It is expected that up to 40,000 ‘Weekers’, festivalgoers, will attend on each of the four days, with a total of 130,000 people attending over :: JENNIE RHODES the course of the event. On the door, ticket sales started on Wednesday TORRE DEL MAR’S THEMED SHOWERS and organisers predicted that 95 per cent of all tickets would be sold by Torre del Mar beach’s newest showers take the form of a dancing the weekend. American rock band, lighthouse and a giant flip-flop. The themed showers can be found The Offspring, headlined Thursday near the biblioplaya and have attracted a lot of attention so far. They night, while the world-famous DJ, form part of a series of new installations for this summer, which also David Guetta, is expected to pull the includes an area for barbecues complete with boats made with ce- biggest crowd when he performs to- ment and are next to the dog beach at the western end of the town. Revellers queueing to get into the festival on Wednesday. :: J. R. night. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 13 14 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH New Carrefour hypermarket to open at La Trocha centre in Coín

COÍN The local group Costasol de Hipermercados has chosen the Guadalhorce valley for its most modern centre

:: FERNANDO TORRES. The Gua- dalhorce valley area is to have a A digital recreation of what the new restaurant will look like. :: SUR brand new hypermarket by the end of this year. The group Costasol de Hipermercados, which already op- Hard Rock Café set to open erates Carrefour stores in Torremo- linos, Estepona and Mijas, plans to in Muelle Uno in December open its fourth venture with the French brand on an area of 5,000 square metres adjoining La Trocha :: IGNACIO LILLO Alongside the Hard Rock Café’s commercial centre in Coín. MALAGA. The American restau- signature celebrity memorabilia, Building work has already started rant franchise Hard Rock Café has the 1,500-square-metre space will on the premises, following the fi- applied for planning permission feature a rooftop terrace with nalisation of the acquisition of the A computer-generated image of the future store. :: SUR for its new establishment in the panoramic views, a souvenir shop land last month. city of Malaga. The eatery will be and a lift, meaning the building The firm’s director general, Au- Martín added that the large for- ject has not been released, however located in the portside Muelle Uno will be fully accessible. relio Martín, explained that this eign population was among the rea- the firm has said that the new store area, opposite the entrance to the This will be the second Hard area was important for the next step sons for choosing La Trocha, espe- will provide 250 new jobs, directly Pompidou Centre. Rock Café in the province, after in the group’s expansion around cially as the centre is an important and indirectly. After signing an agreement the existing one in Puerto Banús, the province of Malaga, due to its meeting point for the international In 2006 Costasol de Hipermer- with the port’s commercial man- Marbella. “growing population”. “We are con- community. cados opened its first Carrefour store agement last November, the mul- The new restaurant will be in fident that Costasol de Hipermer- The new store will have a car park in Torremolinos. In 2016 the firm tinational company aims to begin one of the most visited spots in cados will become an important or- with spaces for 1,000 vehicles as celebrated its 30th anniversary; it works later this summer. Its ob- Malaga; this year a predicted 11- ganisation for [the area’s] inhabi- well as a Carrefour petrol station. was founded in 1986 with a store jective is to have the restaurant million people will have visited tants,” he said. The global investment in the pro- under the name Costasol. open by December. Muelle Uno, a new record. July 6th to 12th 2018 15 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Torremolinos begins second phase HERE AND THERE of central pedestrianisation project

Mayor José Ortiz December. October, work will take place be- announced on a visit to Ortiz described the project as “the tween Calle Cruz and Calle Hoyo, up most emblematic and transformative to Avenida Los Manantiales. The fi- the work site that the project” in the town since the 1960s nal stage, which will be completed new boulevard on Plaza and that it would be for the “enjoy- in December, will be in the centre, Costa del Sol will open ment” not only the new influx of from Calle Cauce to Avenida Los Man- tourists but residents too. antiales, in front of the Doña María Emaús serves 200 people every day in Torremolinos. :: SUR in December While underground work has been Barrabino house. ongoing since January, this second Emaús receives 65,000 solidarity, fighting against poverty :: IVÁN GELIBTER phase is all above ground and has been In time for Christmas and social exclusion. The branch TORREMOLINOS. The second divided into three parts to minimise Town Planning councillor Maribel euro grant from in Torremolinos, situated in Plaza phase of the transformation of cen- the disruption to shoppers and busi- Tocón, also present on Wednesday, Torremolinos town hall de Andalucía, is run solely by vol- tral Torremolinos is well under way ness owners in the area. announced that “this Christmas we’ll unteers and serves around 200 peo- and during a visit to the works on The first will take place in July and have a new Torremolinos”. TORREMOLINOS ple a day, 365 days a year. Wednesday, the town’s mayor, José August between Avenida Palma de She also said that works at El Ba- :: T. BRYANT. Torremolinos town The organisation caters for the Ortiz, announced that the new Plaza Mallorca and its intersection with jondillo were almost complete, bar- hall has approved a grant of 65,000 six soup kitchens in Torremolinos, Costa del Sol would be complete by Calle Cauce. Next, in September and ring the installation of lighting. euros for the town’s Emaús soup providing breakfast, lunch and din- kitchen. ner to those in need. It also oper- Emaús International, created in ates a delivery service for those 1971, is an organisation of active with reduced mobility.

Egalitarian wedding fair in the world of fashion, catering, comes to Torremolinos decoration, tourism and event management. TORREMOLINOS Councillor for equality, Aida :: T. B. Torremolinos is to host the Blanes, said, “This new concept in first edition of the egalitarian bri- wedding fairs will cater for every- dal fair, Expobodas, on 6 and 7 of one together, rather than having October. This new concept in the a segregated area reserved for the industry aims to offer services to LGBT sector. all people planning their big day, Director of Expobodas, Manuel regardless of gender and sexual ori- Maya, said, “We chose Torremoli- entation. The fair will offer the nos because it has always been at most outstanding representations the forefront of equality.”

The ‘new Torremolinos’ is set to be ready in time for Christmas. :: I. GELIBTER

day to Saturday. They will be just as More buses scheduled to run from frequent on Sundays and holidays, but the first will leave at 8am. Mijas to Marbella and Fuengirola With regard to the M220 which The Ombú tree in Benalmádena Costa that inspired the poem. :: T. B. passes through La Cala de Mijas, the service will run later with the last Memorial plaque for year. Baena had lived in :: I. GELIBTER ber of users increases significantly. departure from the Avenida de Mi- Benalmádena Costa for many years MIJAS. Mijas town hall has an- As the local administration, we are jas turn off from the A-7 in Las La- Ombú tree poet and was inspired to write a poem nounced that both the M122 bus always looking to adapt our services gunas (Ford roundabout) at 1.55am about a large Ombú tree that he which connects Fuengirola and Mi- to suit the needs of our residents,” every day. BENALMÁDENA passed each day. The poem, Ombú, jas, as well as the M220 between said councillor Nuria Rodríguez. From Monday to Saturday, the :: T. B. In a campaign to recognise has been inscribed onto a plaque Fuengirola and Marbella, will run The M122 service will run an hour first departure is at 7.40am, leaving celebrated writers and artists, that has recently been installed more services during the summer longer, with the last bus leaving Mi- every half an hour. The frequency Benalmádena town hall has hon- next to the tree in Avenida Anto- months. jas Pueblo at 11pm. The service will remains the same on Sundays and oured Pablo García Baena, a Cor- nio Machado. The plaque is illus- “This is a tourist municipality and run every half an hour, starting at holidays, but the first departure is doba poet who died earlier this trated with an image of the poet. when the summer comes, the num- 7.20am in Fuengirola, from Mon- at 8.10am. 16 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

ADVERTORIAL Panorama Properties Benalmádena to dredge sand and silt from port

The council will invite should begin in October. The cost of The Marbella bids from companies, the project is set at 467,751 euros, including tax. The last dredging of the though the controversial estuary, in 2011 was cloaked in con- property market dredgers of 2011 still troversy after the work was awarded remain under to a local company. In three invoices, it was indicated that transfers had investigation been made to a different company, is prospering which had been formed just one CHRISTOPHER CLOVER :: ALBERTO GÓMEZ month before the contract had been BENALMÁDENA. Over the next awarded, and whose director had a Christopher Clover, FRICS, owner few weeks, Benalmádena council will “close friendship” with the council- and Managing Director of Mar- ask for quotes from companies to re- lor in charge of the port, Francisco Sa- bella’s longest established real es- move more than 40,000 cubic me- lido. The beneficiary of the invoices tate agency, the exclusive interna- tres of sand and silt from Puerto Ma- presided over a group with at least tional associate of Savills for Mar- rina, a project that has been at a stand- four companies, all in his name, which bella, Estepona and Benahavís ar- still since 2009. A report published invoiced more than 1.4 million euros eas, has been writing about the last May warned that the build up of to the port management between Marbella property market for over sand at the port could make it “dan- 2011 and 2015. Though an investiga- 48 years. In his 2018 report, he gerous” to sail there. The works are tion was carried out, many had doubts concludes that “virtually every in- expected to last for two months and over the legality of the situation. dicator of activity of the Marbella property market and its economy is positive”. The increase in sales volume last year was a healthy 6.9%, rising to 4,275 properties sold during 2017. Tourism, the main source for real estate sales, is breaking records, A Marbella property. SUR both nationally and locally: new hotels are being built, old ones are eign buyers of property in Anda- currently at play which are essen- being refurbished. Rental prices lucia, those from the UK repre- tial to take into consideration when increased 20.8% from January sent 21.5% of the properties sold, contemplating the full spectrum 2017 to January 2018. 924 new followed by the Swedes at 11.6% and impact of the positive evolu- companies (discounting those and the Belgians at 8.11%. Al- tion and activity of this area. Mar- which closed) were formed in Mar- though the UK demand for prop- bella’s extraordinary culinary of- bella in 2017. erty in this area has diminished fer with more than 500 restaurants Property prices are creeping up- slightly from 26.82% in 2016, the and 5 Michelin stars, the city with wards, a few ultra-prime areas in UK market is showing surpris- the highest number of Michelin Marbella have doubled in price ing resilience and remains the most stars in Andalucía,20 the many The build up of sand causes problems for sailors. :: SUR since the bottom of the market in important single market for pur- events that Marbella is celebrat- 2011, whereas other areas in the chasing property in Andalucia and ing: golf tournaments, the Davis municipality still offer properties in all of Spain Cup, the Starlite Music Festival for sale at below pre-crisis levels. The property sales volume in confirming it will continue in Mar- There is high activity in the Mar- the province of Malaga is double bella with an outstanding summer Junta de Andalucía is bella area in new construction and that of the Balearic Islands, and schedule, as well as many other off-plan sales. Around 61 new de- the fourth in Spain behind Ma- shows and events of all types. investigating illegal quarrying velopments being built in Mar- drid, Barcelona and Alicante. Marbella has a unique lifestyle bella, Estepona, Benahavís and which permits one to enter into Ojén which are for sale since 2016. THE MAGIC OF MARBELLA various strata of the Marbella so- These new projects offer proper- Since Marbella started to become ciety or simply sit back to enjoy :: FERNANDO TORRES of the alleged activity. ties in the price range of 200,000 popular in the mid-‘50’s when the the climate, the incredible light ALHAURÍN DE LA TORRE. The Regional minister for Employ- euros to 4,000,000 euros and rep- Marbella Club Hotel opened, a which artists always talk about, the Junta de Andalucía regional gov- ment, Business and Commerce, Ja- resent a total of 2,657 properties. policy of low density, low rise con- warmth and genuineness of the ernment has started proceedings vier Carnero, said that the proceed- The greatest strength of the cur- struction and ample green zones Spanish people, the outstanding to fine one of the companies ac- ings were started after the Junta rent residential market lies with in the Marbella area has resulted nature surrounding the whole area. cused of operating without a li- received the complaint from the properties priced between 200,000 in making Marbella today stand Is today a good time to buy cence at the quarries in Alhaurín Guardia Civil, and concern “the euros and 1,500,000 euros for out as an oasis of quality, com- property in Marbella? Any time de la Torre. This comes after many failure to comply with article 31.2 apartments, and euros700,000 pared to the many concrete jun- is a good time for those buying complaints, a report from the of the General Mining Regula- euros to 2,500,000 for villas. gles on the Spanish coasts. with lifestyle objectives in mind, Guardia Civil environmental serv- tions”. For the environmental Many properties in the best resi- There are more than 40 golf which has always been the single ice and protests from local ecolo- groups, the action is “positive”, dential areas which are between courses within a 30-minutes’ drive most important factor influenc- gists about the destructive nature but comes four years too late. 20 and 50 years old are being from Marbella. Located at ing buyers in Marbella. bought and either torn down and Europe’s southernmost tip, there For many, the hard evidence of rebuilt, or totally refurbished, some are more than 320 days of sun- the positive evolution of the Mar- by end users, others by professional shine and the best weather in all bella property market, will no Renovations to take With financial support from the developers. of the continent. With all these doubt lead them to conclude that provincial government, almost 1.6 Looking at the market evolution, factors and a core population of 2018 and the coming years rep- place on last stretch million euros will be invested in the next few years will probably the municipality in the winter resent an outstanding time, per- the project, which will “modern- be characterized by a gradual de- months of around 300,000 peo- haps even a historic opportunity, of main road into ise” the street, according to the velopment and growth of the area ple, Marbella now has a twelve- to purchase property in this area, Fuengirola mayor Ana Mula. rather than a market heading for month season, with its high and while Marbella is just entering This avenue is one of Fuengi- overheating as before, all depend- low periods, compared to the its New Golden Age. rola’s main arteries as it links the ing of course on the economic evo- strictly seasonal nature of almost town by the station to the A-7 road. lution of the multitude of coun- all of the Mediterranean resort cit- :: IVÁN GELIBTER The council has set out with the tries whose citizens comprise the ies, rolling up the sidewalks at the · Panorama Properties. FUENGIROLA. The council in new design to make sure that pe- markets for luxury Marbella-area end of September and gradually Offices at Puente Romano Fuengirola has announced that destrians will be a priority. real estate. coming back to life at the end of Beach Resort. Tel. 952863750 works to improve the last stretch The lower stretch of the road, The Spanish buyer is returning March. www.panorama.es of Avenida Alcalde Clemente Díaz nearest the station, was remod- to the market place, and of the for- There are many other factors [email protected] will begin on 5 September and are elled last year. 29 companies bid likely to last for 72 days. to carry out this last section. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 17 18 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS ANDALUCÍA SUR IN ENGLISH

Medina Azahara, World Heritage IN BRIEF

Unesco has declared the Cordoba ruins a World Heritage Site, calling them a unique example of the development of Western Islamic civilisation The works of art date from the 17th century. :: A. VÁZQUEZ / LA VOZ

:: CECILIA CUERDO Lost cathedral carvings thrown out”. The alarm was raised SEVILLE. The archaeological re- by museum and church officials mains of Medina Azahara, near Cor- turn up in private hands last week. The items are by Spain’s doba, built in the 10th century by first official female sculptor, La Abderramán III, have been made a CADIZ Roldana, and were originally part Unesco World Heritage Site. The :: SUR. Four 17th century wooden of a bigger altarpiece that was dis- international organisation’s com- carvings in pieces that went miss- mantled. The two men, one a mittee announced in Bahrain last ing from the crypt of Cadiz cathe- carver and another with links to Sunday that it had agreed to add dral have turned up in private the local church, who took the the ancient Islamic complex to its Caliphate city Medina Azahara, close to Cordoba. :: EFE hands after being removed ten items out of storage have claimed list of protected areas. years ago “to stop them being that they were protecting them. Unesco said that the site serves tural Heritage Site in 2012. ancient writings discovered by ar- as a “testimony to the Umayyads Medina Azahara’s 112 hectares cheologists, it was a gift from the Utility and phone firms round-the-clock customer service as a cultural and architectural civi- of walled land make it the largest monarch to his love, Azahara, who by telephone without charge. lization, and more generally, to the archaeological site in Spain. The never got used to the place, despite told to open real offices The Junta, which operates an ar- development of Western Islamic area has two particular features the beauty of its garden of almond bitration service between consum- civilization”. that stood out to the Unesco spe- trees. The splendour barely lasted SEVILLE ers and some companies, said that With the naming of Medina Aza- cialists. Firstly, it is an example of a century, destroyed by the Berbers :: M. D. T. The Junta de Andalucía is in 2017 it had 1,843 arbitration re- hara as a World Heritage Site, Cor- ancient cultural traditions and sec- during a civil war in 1010. It wasn’t working on new consumer-protec- quests, 8.5 per cent more than a year doba has become the first place in ondly, the impressive architecture until the 19th century that the ru- tion legislation that includes the earlier. It says that many cases could the world to have four areas with is representative of an important ins were identified, six kilometres obligation for a water, electricity, have been solved sooner if custom- this prestigious Unesco status. The historical period. away from Cordoba city centre. gas, insurance or phone supplier to ers didn’t have just a telephone op- archaeological remains join the The complex was constructed in After Unesco’s announcement, have at least one physical office open erator available to help them. Some Mosque-Cathedral, the old town 936 by the Umayyad dynasty when the regional president of Andalucía, to the public in each of the eight 4,000 companies in all sectors are and, most recently, the Fiesta de Cordoba was the capital of an Is- Susana Díaz, highlighted the im- Andalusian provinces. In addition signed up to the regional arbitra- los Patios flower festival, which lamic Caliphate and a centre of portance of this “artistic and his- it is asking for the firms to provide tion system. was chosen as an Intangible Cul- Western civilisation. According to torical jewel”. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 19 20 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS GIBRALTAR SUR IN ENGLISH New Calpe House facility for IN BRIEF Gibraltar patients opens in London

The building has 37 ensuite rooms and, like its predecessor, will be a ‘home for home’ for those who need hospital treatment in the UK HMS Duncan is a Type 42 destroyer. :: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

:: DEBBIE BARTLETT HMS Duncan visits Gib ployment as flagship of NATO’s task GIBRALTAR. All sponsored patients group in the Black Sea and Medi- from Gibraltar who are sent for medi- on her way home terranean. She has been taking part cal treatment in London will be able in a number of operations and ex- to stay at the new Calpe House in fu- GIBRALTAR ercises, maritime security patrols ture. This new facility in Norfolk :: D.B. HMS Duncan is due to ar- and regional engagement in South- Square was officially opened by the rive in Gibraltar today, 6 July, for a ern European waters and the sur- patron of Calpe House Ltd, Sir Joe routine engagement visit. This Type rounding areas. Following her visit Bossano, who was also representing 45 destroyer has just completed a to Gibraltar, the ship will return to the Gibraltar government, on Tues- very successful seven-month de- her home port, Portsmouth. day this week. The previous Calpe House in Look out for new Biggest Christmas Princes Square, which has always been known as a ‘home from home’ The new facility is in Norfolk Square, London. :: CALPE HOUSE TRUST purple jellyfish flag Lottery so far for Gibraltar patients, had become too small to cope with demand. The honoured that one of the Calpe House vidual donations from the people of GIBRALTAR GIBRALTAR new building cost £8.5 million to buildings has been named after him: Gibraltar, and support from the Gi- :: D.B. From now on Gibraltar’s :: D.B. It may only be July but the buy and an approximate £6 million the three are called ‘The Peter Cae- braltar government. beaches will fly a purple flag to in- government has announced that was spent on its conversion and re- tano Wing’, ‘The Sir Joseph Bossano Among those at the inauguration dicate that jellyfish and/or other this year’s Christmas Draw will furbishment. The facilities are more KCMG Wing’ and ‘The Charles Til- were the Governor of Gibraltar, Lieu- dangerous marine life are known be the biggest yet. It will take extensive and modern: there are 37 bury BEM Wing’, in tribute to “the tenant General Ed Davis, Dr Daniel to be in the area. If you see a pur- place on Tuesday 18 December at ensuite rooms (27 doubles and 10 people who inspired the original idea Cassaglia (GHA Medical Director) ple flag, it doesn’t mean swimming 7:30pm. The 100,000 tickets, on singles), most of which have a kitch- of Calpe House and made it a reality,” and other members of the Gibraltar is prohibited if sea conditions are sale now, will cost £20 per full enette, and communal and visitor said the charity’s chairman, Albert Health Authority, some of the corpo- suitable, but extreme caution and ticket, and the top prize will be areas. Poggio. The new Calpe House was rate sponsors and the Board of Trus- vigilance are needed. one million pounds. In his speech, Sir Joe said he was made possible by corporate and indi- tees and Directors of Calpe House. July 6th to 12th 2018 21 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Churriana, the euro tester

Twenty years ago, the district was involved in a pilot project to try out the new currency; now a new experiment is planned

Over four days in 1998, rived at the pharmacy. I thought it both euros and pesetas and patiently Churriana became the was going to fall down,” she remem- helping confused customers. They bers. distributed currency converters and, focus of global media It was the then-mayor of Malaga, to liven up the atmosphere even fur- attention as locals tested Celia Villalobos, who convinced Rato ther, there was a bull run and a ‘Fi- out the euro that Churriana would be the ideal esta del Euro’. place to carry out the euro experi- To celebrate the 20th anniversary ment, which took place from 30 Sep- of the beta launch of the euro in Chur- :: NURIA TRIGUERO tember to 3 October 1998. The streets riana, the mobile payment app, Bi- MALAGA. Everyone in Churriana of were pedestrianised and were filled zum, has organised another initia- remembers 1998 as the “year of the with residents and visitors ready to tive in the same neighbourhood. Resi- euro”. For them the European cur- spend their test euros. The shop own- dents of all ages are getting involved rency came four years early. The pi- ers threw themselves into the experi- with the experiment and introduc- lot experiment which simulated the ment, hanging posters with prices in ing the app into their daily lives. Local residents last week with the coins they used in 1998. :: M. F. change from peseta to euro lasted four days and turned the neighbourhood into a place of international interest. It was the first initiative of its kind in Europe and was revolution- ary for Churriana, which filled with visitors, journalists and politicians. The banks carried out 150,000 exchange operations and the shops sold more than ever before. This year marks two decades since that experiment, which is still fondly remembered. Rare is the resident who hasn’t kept a collection of the coins that were put into circulation over those four days. There were eight commemorative coins: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents and 1 and 2 euros, all of which were distributed in packets of 9.51 euros (1,600 pesetas) or of 17.83 euros (3,000 pesetas). Each person was able to acquire the euro equivalent of 4,600 pesetas. Nieves Bravo worked as a cleaner in Unicaja. She remembers the com- motion at the branch and the queues of hopeful locals and visitors over those four days. “The coins ran out and soon collectors arrived, paying as much as 500 or 600 euros for the packet of 9.51 euros,” recalls the Chur- riana resident. Some people took photos with the politicians who visited the neighbourhood. This is the case of Carmela Álvarez, whose husband, a pharma- cist, is pictured in one of the more memorable photos of the event: Rodrigo Rato, the minister of the Treasury buying flu medicine with his euros. “Fifty journalists ar-

The story was on the front page of SUR in English on 2 October 1998. 22 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS BUSINESS AND FINANCE SUR IN ENGLISH

THE EURO ZONE Registered as paying social security contributions MARK NAYLER precarity”. The big change since last De- Malaga province (inc. Costa del Sol) June average x1000  [email protected] 619,778 cember, of course, is that Spain’s 592,490 600 Socialists are no longer voicing 580 560,170 560 534,386 their dislike of Conservative 540 530,075 517,769 538,542 520 497,948 515,402 policies from the opposition 500 benches: they’re in power. 480 HEY, SMALL 460 440 Gómez is now Secretary of State 420 for Security in Sánchez’s Social- 400 SPENDER 380 360 ist government and is not about 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 to sanction a massive increase in military expenditure, as recom- mended by Spain’s former Con- Registered unemployed UNEMPLOYED servative defence minister. Malaga province (inc. Costa del Sol) June 2018 ccording to Donald cerned, though, Spain’s small Trump seems to have forgotten, 220 141,363 Trump, Spain is not spending on defence not only or perhaps doesn’t care, that he’s 210 200 -5,774 (-3.9%) spending enough breaks a deal made among NATO dealing with a whole new Span- 190 money on defence. members in Wales four years ago ish government from the one 180 A 170 The US president wrote to the - it also goes against a much that was in office last December. 160 150 new Spanish prime minister Pe- more recent pledge. In any case, the PSOE is right 140 dro Sánchez this week, inform- Last December, the then Con- to argue that it’s not just how 130 120 ing him that the country needs servative defence minister María much you spend, it’s how you 110 100 to up its military budget to 2% of Dolores de Cospedal promised to spend it. Speaking with NATO 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 GDP, in accordance with pledges increase the Spanish defence Secretary General Jens Stolten- made at the NATO summit in budget from around €10 billion a berg in Madrid on Tuesday, Sán- Wales in 2014; currently, Spain year (or 0.86% of GDP) to €18 chez said that Spain has proved spends around 0.96% of its GDP billion a year (1.5% of GDP) by itself a “firm ally” of NATO by Unemployed in the province on defence, which its new gov- 2024 - an increase of over 70% in committing troops to all its mili- ernment says is plenty. It’s a po- four years. The proposal was tary operations, as well as all EU down 3.9% says June data sition that Trump’s huffy mis- greeted with outrage by the So- military operations; he also sive is unlikely to change. cialists, who argued that the highlighted Spain’s membership The US president’s letter was money would be better spent on of the Global Coalition Against :: NURIA TRIGUERO shown that the number of people also sent to Canada and several a public sector weakened by eco- Daesh, for which it has provided MALAGA. Monthly data for the registered as paying social security other EU countries, alerting nomic crisis. Socialist politician almost 600 soldiers. number of jobless registered at gov- contributions for benefits such as them to a matter likely to top Ana Botella Gómez told De Co- Trump can send the new ernment unemployed centres in healthcare and pensions has gone the agenda at a NATO summit in spedal that to plough so much Spanish prime minister all the June in Malaga province showed a up and reached 619,778, more than Brussels next week (indeed, only extra cash into defence was nasty letters about upping de- fall of 5,774 (3.9 per cent) in May, before the last financial crisis. five NATO members hit or ex- wrong at a time when many fence spending that he wants - due mainly to contracting for the Unions have called for less tem- ceeded the 2% target last year). Spanish families’ lives were but they’re unlikely to have the peak summer tourist season. This porary and more long-term con- As far as the US president is con- “marked by hardship and desired effect. is the lowest total since 2008. tracts. The data excludes long-term Meanwhile, the same data has unemployed who aren’t registered. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 23 24 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS SPAIN SUR IN ENGLISH

Separatist detainees Government IN BRIEF pacts new Podemos leadership sias said, “ They’ve been born much earlier than expected. We hope all moved to Catalan jails as management couple have twins early goes well. They are in the best board at RTVE, the hands.” MADRID The high-profile couple were at Sánchez relaxes position public broadcaster :: SUR. The leader of political party the centre of a controversy in May Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, and his when it emerged that they had partner, Irene Montero, also a top bought a 600,000-euro house out- The Catalan president move in response to criticism from :: SUR party member, have become the side Madrid to bring up the chil- visited one of the pro-independence politicians and MADRID. Pedro Sánchez’s mi- parents of twin boys. dren in. Their party, Podemos, was in an effort to improve relations nority PSOE government secured The babies, which are expected founded as part of an anti-capital- two local prisons with Catalonia. its first parliamentary success to be called Leo and Manuel, were ist street movement and they were on Wednesday The prisoners are being held over this week when it reached agree- born three months prematurely seen as potentially abandoning their alleged part in the illegal dec- ment with enough other politi- and will stay in hospital for the their political roots. An over- :: SUR laration of independence last Octo- cal parties for a new board of di- next two months. whelming majority of party mem- BARCELONA. The former Cata- ber and on Wednesday evening pro- rectors at RTVE. A softer stance Speaking after his partner gave bers then backed them in a subse- lan leaders in jail awaiting trial have separatist Catalan president Quim on Catalonia helped get Catalan birth after only six months, Igle- quent online vote. been allowed to move from prisons Torra visited one of the two jails, nationalist support. near Madrid to Catalonia. On saying, “Moving the prisoners closer RTVE, the national public PP party decides Trump demands more Wednesday six of the nine were isn’t a concession [to separatists], broadcaster, has a board approved taken to two jails closer to their it’s not a political gesture nor does by parliament and there had been shortlist for new leader NATO spend from Spain homes. it form part of any negotiation.” disagreement over how it should The new Socialist government, Torra is due to meet the new PM to be made up. In the end the new MADRID MADRID led by Pedro Sánchez, agreed to the discuss Catalonia on Monday. board will also have members cho- :: SUR. The PP party was deciding :: SUR. The US president, Don- sen by the Podemos party and the on Thursday who will be on the ald Trump, has written to the PNV Basque nationalists but not shortlist to be its new leader. Only prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, by the conservative PP party nor those party members who regis- reminding him of his obligations centrist Ciudadanos. tered to vote can take part and it is on defence and the promise of for- The new board is in a position expected that two favourites will mer PM, Mariano Rajoy, to in- to influence editorial policy and emerge to go forward to a final vote crease military spending to 2 per the PP expressed anger at being at a party conference later this cent of GDP by 2024. A letter also left out. Parliamentary spokes- month. There are six pre-candidates, went to some other allied govern- person, Rafael Hernández, said, and the final choice is likely to come ments and came ahead of a NATO “We are not prepared to let Pedro from three of them; Pablo Casado, summit in Brussels next week. Sánchez assault public television a party media chief, and former Spain currently spends 0.92 per so they don’t broadcast the pay- ministers María Dolores de Cospe- cent on defence, the third lowest ments to his [political] partners dal and Soraya Sáenz Santamaría. percentage in NATO. Sánchez, and and so he controls the news.” The Commentators have said that this Rajoy before him, have said de- new head of RTVE is Tomás Fer- is the most divided race for leader- fence commitment cannot be nando Flores, current boss of its ship in the party’s history. measured in GDP terms alone. Torra (c) leaves Lledoners jail, Catalonia, after the visit. :: M. SÀENZ Radio 3, a music-based station. July 6th to 12th 2018 25 SUR IN ENGLISH SPAIN NEWS

place for him inside the Valley of the Fallen. According to De Ávalos, just a few days before the burial the managing director of a construction firm was commissioned to prepare the tomb. When Franco died, King Juan Carlos signed an order which declared that he was to be buried in the Val- ley of the Fallen. The decision to bury Franco at the Valley of the Fallen has linked the monument with the dictatorship ever since, something which Pedro Sán- chez’s government considers can be corrected by moving his remains. The socialists want to reform the Law of Historic Memory and trans- form the monument into a National Memorial Centre so it is no longer a place of memory for Francoism and Catholic nationalism. Instead, they want it to become a place “for the culture of reconciliation, democratic col- The outside of the Valley of the Fallen, with the huge cross in the background. :: ALBERTO FERRERAS lective memory, and dignity and recognition for the victims of the Civil Fallen is that Franco didn’t ask to be War and the dictatorship”. buried in this monument, which he Albert Rivera of the Ciudadanos ordered to be built in an idyllic set- party would rather it became a na- The valley in which Franco ting in the Madrid hills. His inten- tional cemetery, similar to that of Ar- tion was to be buried in a chapel at lington in the USA, where American the Mingorrubio cemetery, near El soldiers who died in combat are bur- Pardo palace, which is where the re- ied. For Izquierda Unida it should be didn’t want to be buried mains of his wife, Carmen Polo, lie. desacralized and just renamed ‘Cuel- “There was no way that Franco gamuros Valley’. Compromís sena- wanted to go to the Valley of the tor Carles Mulet goes further still: he The dictator would have preferred his remains to be laid to rest in a Fallen,” insists Juan de Ávalos, archi- wants the monument to be demol- chapel at Mingorrubio cemetery, near El Pardo tect, painter and son of the sculptor ished, as the only way of not leaving of the same name who was commis- “reminiscences”. sioned to create the statues which De Ávalos has a proposal of his own, The imminent transfer of adorn the monument. nothing to do with politics and based his remains has started a De Ávalos has the same close rela- on reconciliation and his passion for debate about the future tionship with the site as his father, art. “I think what they should do is whose appointment upset some ele- promote it as the result of the work use of the monument in ments of the Franco regime because of artists, engineers, stonemasons, the Madrid hills he was a republican. “At that time, builders and painters. A lot of culture you could be republican but not left- lies within that,” he says. He is in fa- wing,” says Juan junior. vour of a museum to hold the vast :: A. AZPIROZ He says that when the dictator suf- amount of documentation written MADRID. “As a democracy, Spain fered his first haemorrhage, Carmen about the Valley of the Fallen and its cannot permit symbols which sepa- Polo went to look at the chapel at construction. With regard to the buri- rate Spanish people. Something Mingorrubio. “When Franco asked als, he says if the relatives of any the which would be unimaginable in what it was like, she told him it was more than 33,000 people buried there Germany or Italy cannot be allowed too luxurious. If she thought that don’t want their loved one to lie be- in this country either. It is a ques- about the chapel, I imagine the Val- neath the cross, they should be of- tion of closing wounds.” ley of the Fallen would have been fered another position within the In his first interview as prime min- considered very grand indeed, to say complex, and finally he proposes that ister, Pedro Sánchez made it clear that Juan de Ávalos, with reproductions of some of his father’s works. :: A. F the least” he says. the black marble which decorates he would change the present status each side of the entrance to the ba- of the Valley of the Fallen, and that where, something which his social- decision has now been taken. The Wishes set aside silica be inscribed with the names of includes removing the remains of ist predecessors Felipe González and move will be made before August. With Franco dying, Arias Navarro’s all those buried there, no matter dictator Francisco Franco from the José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero either What is strange in these 43 years government decided to leave aside which side they fought for. “And in mausoleum and burying them else- didn’t want or didn’t dare to do. The of debate about the Valley of the the dictator’s wishes and prepare a strict alphabetical order,” he says. 26 July 6th to 12th 2018 COMMENT SUR IN ENGLISH

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azz music is a mightily through the piece, preferably with they’re called - in each hand, crossed An unkempt Mijas Pueblo broad church. From Ella wire brushes. If he can also sport over like a giant chopstick/cotton Fitzgerald to Weather Re- a greying spindly beard and a shirt bud combination. Plonk, plonk plin- I read the letter last week from penalty) could be placed around J port, the definition of even a golfer wouldn’t be seen ketty plonk is generally deemed to Sue Butler-Smith and agree with the village area by the local po- what constitutes jazz seems like a dead in, this certainly helps. Sec- be more than sufficient in almost what she said. lice. No response was received pretty moveable feast to say the ondly, at least one of the eight every situation. We love our beautiful village, from my written application least. The first time I remember guitarists needs to be practising Any piano player present should but not for some time now it and so far as I can see there are doing a cartoon double take at the his scales at all times, and not nec- always avoid any pleasantly nor- hasn’t been properly cleaned, es- no more bins. Even the donkeys radio was when some DJ or other essairily in the same key as the mal chords like, say, C major, and pecially in the non-central areas and horses now have to wear said something about “the great other musicians present. It’s al- instead consistently plump for dis- of the Pueblo, although tourists ‘poo catchers’! jazz singer, Ray Charles”. Mr Char- ways a bonus, if it’s a live per- sonant fifths and major sevenths always visit them to admire the It’s all very well outsourcing, les had never sounded much like formance, if a member of the leaving the listener so uncomfort- views of the campo, Fuengirola but the cleaning company, Ur- jazz to my ears, I can tell you. Then, audience can periodically yell able with the lack of resolution in and the Mediterranean. baser I believe, must themselves as time progressed, I’d see posters something like, “Hey there, fast the music that eventually he’s Staying here in Mijas, having be controlled by someone at the for people like Van Morrison head- fingers! When does the tune forced to cry out in anguish “Please! first bought in 1982, I have no- town hall, to ensure they carry lining jazz festivals. Eh? How on start?!” at him. This won’t lead to Please! I beseech you! Resolve it! ticed that there are more and out correctly what they are earth is the old Irish curmudgeon the inclusion of any discernible C major! C major! Please!” At which more dogs kept as pets by locals meant to do, as set out in their in any way related to jazz? The melody at any point but will, at point he’s usually carted off to pad- and very sadly not everyone contract. whole arena was, and indeed is, least, provide some light relief ded cell somewhere to spend the picks up the fouling left by their Please, please everyone do completely baffling. from the earnest nature of the rest of his days humming Beatles pets. In fact on the C/ Campos, look after Mijas Pueblo and keep To this end, I thought I’d offer whole shebang. tunes because at least they actu- close to the Coín road junction, it clean, including the periphery some clear guidelines as to what Another jazz requisite is to have ally have a beginning, a middle and was placed a fixed dog ‘poo’ bin areas for the residents and the truly constitutes jazz, so that we somebody constantly plinking and an end. maybe more than a year ago valuable tourists. can all get some proper focus go- plonking away at a xylophone in Jazz is in fashion currently, and now. I went to town hall to ask ing here. the background or even - unfor- very popular with all age groups, if more of these fixed bins (with PETER B. RAPAPORT First rule is that there must be givably - in the foreground. Appar- it seems. an attached notice for a fixed MIJAS a drummer who tish, tish, tishes ently, it’s essential that they are I’d actually rather listen to a bit on a hi hat cymbal all the way holding two beaters - or whatever of Ray Charles.

The European Union rity office in Fuengirola, the answer was NO! IDÍGORAS The so-called European Union - The matriculation of my left- there is no union and can never hand drive car was not completed be any union within Europe. because the rear windows were We have had an apartment in tinted, and there was framework SPECIAL La Cala de Mijas for eight years for a tow bar, but the actual ball OFFER! come this October 2018. I have end was taking off as I do not tow Buy one Spain now retired and wish to live at anything, I had to pay €90.00 for flag and get our apartment, legally in Spain. certification before the ITV could 43 free However, Spain has done its best be done. To once again legalise to prevent us from doing so. The our vehicle in Spain plus my driv- amount of paperwork produced ing licence has cost €1620.00. Be- - payment of certificates, prov- fore we came the car was serving who we are, legalising the iced at 95,480 km in February car, confirming at the bank our 2018, with anything wrong be- status, Spanish landline and mo- ing put right, new brake pads, bile number - to date this has cost new discs, new front springs, oil us €2294.00. change, timing belt aircon, lights, I thought the EU provided free new wiper blades, new tyres, starred in The 33, about a group of movement of European citizens emission level checks at a cost of Chilean miners trapped in an un- to live in any country within the £1846.00 inclusive VAT. The cave derground mine. EU. But this cannot be so; we The European Union is a farce; This week two British divers have friends in France who are you try to be above board and do reached the football team, who in the same situation as us. They every thing legally, but NO! I don’t speak English. What must want to be legal but once again would like to know if in the UK PABLO ARANDA they have understood while those the rules and regulations applied the same rules apply, because I men emerged from the water and in France are different to the UK, have seen Polish, Romanian and gave them instructions? A study and different to Spain. French vehicles there that would says that we lie less when we speak I have had to have my pen- never pass an MOT test. n the cave in Rincón de la Vic- Passion these days must be as- another language, but those Eng- sions translated into Spanish, my Spain certainly does not have toria our ancestors kept warm sociated with football. After a lishmen were speaking their own, birth certificate translated and a certificate for the environment by stuffing themselves with match which we don’t know who which belongs to everyone. When all officially stamped; this cost with the amount of paper that I razor clams and cockles. We won, a 26-year-old Thai coach and faced with the cruel truth it’s best €200.00. Registering for health- is produced. have known since February that 12 players, aged between 11 and 16, not to understand. Imagine sev- care, even having the S1 forms We have decided to cut our the world’s earliest graffiti artists visited one of the biggest tourist eral months in the dark eating en- obtained from the UK govern- losses and return to the UK. Bring decorated the walls of Ardales Cave attractions in the north of Thai- ergy bars and waiting for divers to ment department and sent to our on Brexit. more than 65,000 years ago, and land: a labyrinthine cave several bring medical supplies. I’m confi- address in Spain, on making an RICHARD SLATER now we know that 15,000 years kilometres deep. They got lost and dent they’ll get them out all right. appointment at the Social Secu- MIJAS ago they caught shellfish in the rain and mud flooded the en- Europe is a cave and we don’t Europe’s only cave that originated trance. Ten days later, against all want to let anymore people in. We under the sea. And if the tides were odds, they were found alive, but forget that the whole world is a good they would occasionally get they might not be able to escape cave, one big one. Our ancestors Published by: PRENSA MALAGUEÑA S. A. to roast a whale that had been for months, although divers will had the right idea: to eat shellfish Director General: JOSÉ LUIS ROMERO beached on the shore. take them energy bars and other in the shade, near the shore. I don’t 15,000 years later and 10,000 foods. If they can learn to dive, know whether people from out- Editor in Chief: Editor: Advertising Manager: kilometres away, this June, in Thai- they could get out faster. I hope side would have been welcome in MANUEL CASTILLO Rachel Haynes Emma Vera Publications Director: Assistant editor: Commercial Director: land, a master and his 12 disciples they are freed soon and someone those caves 15,000 years ago, or if Pedro Luis Gómez Daryl Finch Jorge Artero went into a cave and they could makes a film. Antonio Banderas they roasted them on sticks too, be stuck there for several months. could play the coach. He already which must be painful. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 27 28 July 6th to 12th 2018 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

Larios was perfect and the straight lines of the La Equitativa building Malaga, a star of Russia’s World Cup turned out to be very similar to those seen in Russian architecture,” explained Silvia Aráez, of Fresco Film, the Malaga production com- The commercial all over Russian TV screens this month was filmed on Calle Larios pany that created the advert for the BBDO Moscow agency. Fifty extras took part in the filming of the advert, Time to Talk, in which a market trader chats with a foreign football fan. FRANCISCO GRIÑÁN A very European street “[Calle] Larios’ 19th-century style  Twitter: @pacogrinan means it is the ideal location to rep- resent any European city,” explained The iconic Equitativa Rafael Guadamuro, the director of building at the end of main casting at Modexpor, which was in charge of the selection of the ex- street is the backdrop for a tras, who put the football atmos- chewing gum commercial phere into the advert. that tells Russians not to In fact, as well as the Orbit campaign, the road has served to mimic be shy about speaking the streets of London for a Samson- English to tourists ite advert and also as a snowy north- ern European city as part of a pub- licity campaign for Saudi Airlines. MALAGA. Flags from all over the In the case of Time to Talk, the world, football shirts, Cossack hats, Filming on Calle Larios in February. Right, a scene humorous clip encourages Russians Russian dolls, smoke flares, parties, from the commercial with La Equitativa in the to “use English, as best you can, chants and... GOAL! This has been background. :: SILVIA ARÁEZ. FRESCO FILM / SUR with mistakes and an accent, so that the scene on Russian televisions all the world can see that we are a these last few days to celebrate the While the commercial appears day, Malaga’s friendly and hospitable country”, World Cup. However, the image in on television screens in Moscow, it main pedestri- explained Grigory Rakovsky, from question is not from a sports pro- is clear that the setting of this com- anised street BBDO Moscow. gramme nor a news broadcast. It is mercial is none other than Malaga’s was trans- The Russians certainly won’t a commercial for Orbit chewing Calle Larios and in the background formed into a have lost their sense of humour gum that invites Russians to try is the famous Equitativa building. side street of after defeating Spain in the quar- chatting in English so that the The filming itself took place Moscow’s Red ter-finals last Sunday, much to the masses of travelling football fans much earlier than the World Cup Square, host to a typical market. ble because the streets were cov- disappointment of those treading leave with a good impression of the celebrations began, on Sunday 18 “Filming in Russia during the ered with two metres of snow, so the pavements of Calle Larios this country and its people. February. Over the course of that winter would have been impossi- we moved shooting to Spain. Calle week. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 29 30 July 6th to 12th 2018 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH Roots in England, flowers in Spain

Cecilia McWeeny was officially made an “adopted daughter” of Almuñécar last Friday

Official recognition of years helping the JENNIE RHODES local community

 [email protected] Mayor of Almuñécar Trinidad Herrera Lorente conducted the ALMUÑÉCAR. Cecilia McWeeny, ceremony during which Cecilia a Brit resident in Almuñécar for past was presented with a certificate 53 years, received the title of “hija and medal as well as flowers. She adoptiva” (adopted daughter) of the was given the official recognition town last Friday. The honour was the after all political parties agreed local council’s way of recognising her unanimously that the British sep- work as a volunteer for many local tuagenarian should be made charities. “adopted daughter” for her work Cecilia McWeeny Chacón was as a volunteer, helping people, born in Bradford in 1940. After leav- from other foreigners and expec- ing school she trained as a nurse and tant mothers, to drug addicts and worked at Bradford hospital. people with Aids over the years. As a young woman, she, alongside Cecilia’s eldest son, Mark, and some of her nursing colleagues, trav- two of her eight grandchildren elled to Norway for a skiing trip. Ce- spoke about their mother and cilia explains that on the boat back “granny” during the event which to England, they got talking to some- took place at the town’s Casa de la one who had connections in Almuñé- Cultura last Friday. car and invited them to visit the Cecilia McWeeny (4th left) with the mayor of Almuñécar, Trinidad Herrera, and family members. :: SUR town. “We first went in 1963 and went they weren’t surprised about me really think about that. I was so in worked with drug addicts and peo- back in 1965,” Cecilia tells SUR in meeting someone in a similar way,” love and I just don’t think it really Cecilia’s parents brought ple with Aids. “We had people stay- English, adding, “In those days we she adds. affected me.” ing with us when they needed help didn’t know anything about the dan- Cecilia also explains how her par- She and Paco had a very happy a traditional three-tiered sometimes,” Cecilia adds. gers of the sun and skin cancer and ents managed to bring a traditional marriage, she says, but she often got wedding cake from Her warmth and popularity were we used to literally fry ourselves by three-tiered wedding cake from Eng- comments from other Spanish peo- England for the wedding clear to see at Friday’s event when mixing olive oil and coca cola to try land for the wedding. One of Ce- ple about “what her husband would family, residents, people she has to get a tan.” cilia’s uncles, Bernard, had been or- let her do”, adding: “Of course in helped along the years and local dained as a priest in Spain and Ce- those days husbands had to give their and granddaughters and describes politicians of all parties, as well as Meant to be cilia explains that he “offered a lot wives permission to do a lot of English and Spanish connections town hall staff, packed the Casa de While there on her second visit, Ce- of help” about Spanish families and things.” poetically: “My roots are in England la Cultura. cilia met her future husband Paco at way of life. but my flowers are in Spain.” Even one of her two sisters trav- a party. “During the holiday I knew “I remember Uncle Bernard tell- Family As well as her own family, Cecilia elled from Bradford to be there, it was meant to be,” she reminisces. ing me that when you marry in Spain Cecilia and Paco had six children; has dedicated her life in Spain to which was a surprise for Cecilia. “It She handed in her notice at Brad- you don’t just marry one person but three boys and three girls. Sadly helping others, something that, as was a lovely event and lovely to see ford hospital and moved to Spain, the whole family and that’s certainly one of the boys died when he was last week’s recognition shows, has so many people,” she says. She adds where she and Paco, who had just true,” laughs Cecilia. just 29, 20 years ago, and about not gone unnoticed. that she has always done what has finished military service and was set- She adds that her husband’s fam- eighteen months after Paco died She has volunteered with a huge come naturally to her and always ting up his own business as a butcher ily were very welcoming and that of cancer. number of organisations including wanted to help people. in Almuñécar, married in 1967. she has always got on well with them. Cecilia is now a grandmother to the cancer association AECC and “There is a Spanish saying which “My parents were very happy. She says of the time in which she eight grandchildren: “All eight are Cáritas, and helped people with in- is ‘el amor se paga con amor’ [love They trusted me and, as they had moved to Spain: “Of course it was girls.” Cecilia says that she always terpretation and hospital visits. She is paid for with love] and I believe met while on holiday in Lourdes, during the Franco era but I didn’t speaks in English with her children also gave parenting classes and in that.” July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 31 32 July 6th to 12th 2018 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

Independence Day on the Costa del Sol

Americans and friends enjoyed a traditional Potluck Party in Benalmádena on Sunday

:: SUR IN ENGLISH BENALMÁDEMA. The American International Club Benalmádena and La Peña Americana from Fuengirola celebrated America’s Independence Day a few days early last Sunday, with a traditional Potluck Party overlook- ing the sea in Benalmádena. The US Consular Agent Roberta Aaron delivered the Independence Day address which was followed by a rousing rendition of the Star Span- gled Banner. Guests, who tucked into a traditional American menu along with other international delights, included over thirty friends from around the Costa del Sol, plus Bob- bye Aaron (US Consular Agent), Benalmádena councillor Ana Scher- More than 30 guests attended the event in Benalmádena. :: SUR man and Joanna Drozdowska (from (Benalmádena Foreigners Depart- Live entertainment was provided nique’s restaurant, while Marbella end. The largest will be in Malaga will take place tonight, Friday, start- ment). Also attending were Jeff by Antony Wolson and Mikey Blanco Golf Country Club staged another where a procession starting from Plaza ing from 7.30pm. Glenn (Peña Americana Fuengirola), who treated the guests to a tribute to event which included an open golf de la Marina through to the cathedral A reenactment that battle during Johnnie Wadley (Chairman of the Michael Jackson. tournament, American-style barbe- will remember the role of General which Gálvez defeated the British American International Society Este- Elsewhere, the Fuengirola chap- cue and music supplied by Stelvis. Bernardo de Gálvez in the Battle of will take place on Saturday in his pona) and Jim Thibault from the ter of The American Club held a July There are still events to be caught Pensacola, a key turning point in the hometown of Macharaviaya. It will same society. 4th party on the actual day at Domi- elsewhere along the coast this week- American War of Independence. This get under way from 9.30pm. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 33 34 July 6th to 12th 2018 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH Carving a living out of the sand

While the tourists soak up the sun and enjoy the beach, others are kept busy trying to earn a wage

TONY BRYANT

 [email protected] Manchester John has been creating sand sculptures on the Bajondillo beach for almost 20 years

TORREMOLINOS. Summer has arrived with a vengeance and the beaches along the Costa del Sol are full of tourists enjoying their annual vacations. While the visitors relax on the beach and soak up the sun, others are busy trying to make a living, whether working in the chiringuitos, or hiring out sun beds and pedalos. Others, like John, a sand sculptor who works on the beach in Torremolinos, use their artistic skills to make ends meet. Born in Manchester in 1957, hence the affectionate name of Manchester John, the 61-year-old Manchester John began sand sculpting on the beach in Torremolinos in 1999. He has become as popular as the sculptures he creates. :: T. B. artist studied graphic art at Oldham July 6th to 12th 2018 35 SUR IN ENGLISH LIFESTYLE

PET CARE

ERNY HARRISON

Art College. Although John has always had a passion for art, his dream was to become a professional foot- Dangerous baller. He had trials for a feeding club for Manchester United - the toys club he dreamed of playing for - but a badly broken ankle ended his career before it began. Consider the risks John spent many years working when buying in the graphic design industry in playthings for pets Manchester, before selling his home to start afresh in Spain. Arthritis had been giving John many prob- Over the years I have bought lems since his injury and so, on the a great number of toys for advice of his doctors, a life in the our dogs and cats. There is an sun seemed like the best option. interesting variety from sim- He arrived in Torremolinos in ple balls to a large cuddly 1979, working as a barman in bear. Even the latter can be Hardy’s Bar in the notorious Com- dangerous with its semi glass bat Alley. However, John broke his dark brown eyes. Get rid of ankle again while playing football The sculptor working on his latest creation, which is dedicated to the World Cup. :: TONY BRYANT them before you give it to on the beach, so he returned to the your pet. It would not be the UK during the mid-1980s to seek first one to try and pull one specialist treatment. Unfortunately, out and choke on it. doctors were unable to fix his an- His sculptures have Always buy your toys from kle and so John has suffered from a vet or a reliable pet shop. his injuries ever since. included temples, They know the dangers and It was not too long before he de- monsters, mermaids will not stock harmful toys. cided to return to Spain, although and a life-size elephant Many years ago I bought his injury made it difficult for him a ball for my cats which had to work for long periods. It was dur- an elasticated string attached ing this time that he came across to it. What fun I had watch- an “old guy” who was making a Although he is a ing them playing. And what huge sand sculpture on the beach. competent artist, his fun did they have, jumping John got chatting to the artist and up and down to try and get ended up earning a few coppers in creations do not start as the ball. return for collecting the water from drawings; he prefers to Ill fate struck. Smokey, in the sea. John began helping the art- her effort to catch the ball, ist regularly and soon became fa- create in his head shot up in the air with the miliar with the art of sculpting with string cutting deep into her sand. leg. The scream was incredi- “One day, the previous artist “Today it is harder ble and it took me a few mo- [whose name he does not recall] ments to react. My first in- said he was leaving and told me that because there are now stinct was to get a pair of I could use his spot, so I took over many people trying to scissors and cut her free. It and began making my own sculp- would have been a serious tures. Back then, artists could earn earn a living from sand mistake as she would have good money, because there were sculpting” run away with the string still not many people doing it. Today John’s sand sculptures can take up to three days to carve. :: T.B. attached to her leg. this has changed, as there are now The first thing to do is stay many trying to earn a living from tions topical and is currently work- dian warrior was merely a broom he is now struggling more with his calm. The second to roll your sand sculpturing,” John explains to ing on a World Cup themed scene. handle coated with sand. ankle. To add to this, the authori- cat into a towel and then cut SUR in English. This depicts a fan slumped on a sofa “One of the guys bet me 50 euros, ties have also been clamping down him or her free. At least they John has now been a regular at- - a can of beer in one hand and a sleep- because he couldn’t believe that it on sand sculptors, although John is cannot escape and it gives traction on the Bajondillo beach in ing dog at his feet - watching the was made solely of sand. It boosted respected because of his etiquette you a chance to assess the Torremolinos for almost 20 years match on a huge television. His sculp- my earnings considerably that day,” towards the beach. damage. In my case a visit to and in that time he has created hun- tures have included a massive nativ- John says in his amusing Mancu- “Last week the police arrived to the vet was necessary and dreds of outstanding sculptures. ity scene, the crucifixion of Christ, nian manner. move a group of people who had set Smokey needed stitches and temples, monsters and mermaids, However, as John is keen to point up camp on the beach. They had be- a painkilling injection. It Beach wedding and a life-size elephant carrying a out, it doesn’t always go in his fa- gun to build a large sand sculpture, made me feel guilty and stu- In 2013, John married his Finnish girl- lance-bearing warrior. vour. There have been occasions but the authorities bulldozed it be- pid at the same time. friend, Paive, and she has now be- Although it is illegal to request when he has misjudged the mixture cause they were not supposed to be Since then I have not come his water carrier and compan- money from tourists, his work has of sand and salt water, only to see living here,” John explains. bought any toys for my cats. ion whenever possible. been appreciated by thousands, a few he creation - which may have taken John has tried to obtain a permit I keep it simple. I make lit- “We met seven years ago in a bar of whom left a surprising reward: oth- two or three days to make - suddenly to ply his trade on the beach, but tle balls from knitting wool in Torremolinos. We got married here ers have doubted whether his sculp- tumble to the ground. Obviously the town hall is yet to introduce or aluminium foil. Cheep and on the beach [he points to a small per- tures were constructed solely of sand when this happens, he has to start such a licence. Because the beaches cheerful - giving them hours gola just yards from where he works]. and water. from scratch, but he never tires of are public, there are no current rules of harmless fun. It was an absolutely fabulous day, be- working on the beach, even though that forbid this type of activity. cause we had a ‘60s themed wedding Unexpected donation and everyone dressed in psychedelic Several years ago one of his cruci- clothes and coloured wigs,” he says, fixion scenes caught the attention bursting into laughter as he recalls of an elderly Spanish lady, who left the event. a roll of money next to the sculp- Even though John is a competent tor. John later discovered she had artist, his creations do not start as donated more than 200 euros. drawings, for he prefers to work spon- On another occasion, several un- taneously, creating whatever comes ruly British tourists questioned into his head. He tries to keep his crea- whether the lance carried by an In- 36 July 6th to 12th 2018 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

Queues went around the block at the Palacio de Ferias. :: ÑITO SALAS Thousands of hopefuls turn out for Operación Triunfo auditions in Malaga :: FERNANDO TORRES MUSIC AND WORDS AT THE PIANO

The popular TV talent they all had one thing in common: their way around the country un- British pianist James Rhodes gave one of his unorthodox concerts in show invited participants a dream, a high dose of excitement til a final stop in Madrid on 10 July. Sohail castle in Fuengirola last Friday. Dressed in jeans, trainers and to showcase their skills at and plenty of patience. Head of casting for the pro- one of his signature composer sweatshirts - this one was Chopin - Almost two thousand mostly gramme and singing coach, Noemí the musician, who now lives in Madrid, entertained with his combi- the city’s Palacio de youngsters descended on Malaga’s Galera, said that the previous edi- nation of classical music and humorous monologue. References to Ferias on Monday Palacio de Congresos on Monday, tion of the show had “set the bar Trump and the Manada sexual assault case came up alongside his ready to perform a 30-second snip- very high”. Despite this, she said, comparisons of composers such as Bach and Rachmaninov with pet for the first round of auditions “we are seeing a lot of very tal- modern-day adolescents, giving his audience food for thought as :: ROCÍO SÁNCHEZ for the popular TV talent show Op- ented people here”. they listened to his spectacular performances of their music. MALAGA. Solo artists or bands, eración Triunfo’s latest edition. A lucky few were called back for with or without instruments. Va- The auditions, which started on a second audition on Tuesday, this riety was the order of the day, but 30 May in Barcelona, are working time behind closed doors. Luis Fonsi to receive Global Gift Philanthropy award LEGAL ADVICE :: NIEVES CASTRO lanthropist award, namely for his International Lawyers answers readers’ queries MARBELLA. Luis Fonsi shot to contribution towards the recovery We speak English, German, French, Spanish and Russian world fame last year after the re- effort in Puerto Rico and Dominica lease of ‘Despacito’, his wildly suc- after the devastation wreaked by cessful reggaeton track. Lit- Hurricane María late last year , tle known, however, is as well as his donations to Please send your questions or who arrested some of the lads, then lose my money if the con- the Puerto Rican the cancer unit at St contact us directly to arrange all were minors. Obviously, ir- struction eventually stopped, singer’s charity work, Jude’s Hospital (Mem- a personal appointment on: respective of the criminal reas I have heard about similar for which he will be phis, US). Given that

sponsibilities, I would like to cases in the past. What kind of officially recognised the honouree will be Ilagoson International recover the money that I have security should I ask for? in Marbella on 29 performing at Mar- Lawyers had to pay for the repairs. As Law obliges developers to guar- July. As part of the sev- bella’s Starlite festival they are minors, can I ask their antee, by means of a bank guar- enth edition of the three days prior to the Avda. Playas Andaluzas 38 parents to pay? antee or insurance contract, any Global Gift Gala, held at ceremony, some are hop- (Exit ‘El Rosario’) 29604 Marbella The Civil Code establishes that amount given by the buyer until the Gran Meliá Hotel, Luis Fonsi ing that he will arrive to re- Tel: 952 77 12 13 parents are responsible for the the construction is finished, pre- Fonsi will receive the Phi- ceive the award in person. Fax: 952 82 68 61 damage caused by their children cisely in order to cover those [email protected] under their care. Courts are ac- cases when the construction is www.ilagoson.com cepting the obligation of parents not built or completed within Offices in Málaga, Marbella to pay compensation, if there is the terms agreed. Obviously, it is OBITUARY and Cádiz negligence in their obligation to necessary to study all the docu- keep an eye on them. ments before paying any de- JIM plies to them during that conflict. posit, in order to check that the “Jim will be greatly missed by required guarantees are indeed everyone in REF. O. S. S. REF. E. R. P. provided. And it is very impor- BROMLEY the Legion, A bunch of lads have damaged I intend to buy an apartment tant to hire the services of an in- but we take a my car. Apparently, they were on the coast. I have been visit- dependent lawyer, not related small grain of drinking, they started to make ing a residential development with the developer, as on many One of the veteran members of comfort a fuss and ended up kicking the that is under construction and occasions buyers are advised to the Nerja branch of the Royal Brit- knowing that wing mirrors of the cars they told me that they are sell- deal with the purchase through ish Legion, Jim Bromley, passed his widow parked in the street. With ing the properties very fast, their own lawyers, “in order to away at the beginning of June. Vera is fortu- mine, apart from breaking the and that I should pay a deposit save money”, and at the end of Jim fought in the Second World nate in hav- wing mirror, they broke a side if I want to buy one. Neverthe- the day those lawyers defend War in the Arctic convoy and was ing a very lov- and rear window as well. Some less, as the development is not the interests of the developer instrumental in bringing about ing and caring neighbours called the police finished yet, I fear that I could and not the buyers. recognition not simply from the family Jim Bromley. British government (70 years later) around her, but also from the Russian govern- testimony to the fact that Jim First Assessment Consultation FREE of Charge ment in gratitude for the contri- was a wonderful father and hus- bution the convoy made to the band,” said a representative of people of Russia by taking sup- the Nerja branch. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 37 38 July 6th to 12th 2018 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY? LANGUAGE FOOTNOTE 6 JULY 2008 Tenis Tennis Pelota Ball Red Net Nadal beats Federer Raqueta Racquet Partido Match in greatest Wimbledon Contrincante Opponent Deporte Sport Ventaja Advantage men’s final of all time 40 Iguales Deuce Título Title Pista Court Aguacero Downpour player also became the first man Retrasar To delay since Björn Borg to win both Wim- Interrumpir To interrupt bledon and the French Open, Vencer To win JENNIE RHODES something which hadn’t happened Campeonato Championship since 1980. His opponent in France Hierba Grass  [email protected] was again Roger Federer, who Na- Rafael Nadal with his Wimbledon trophy in 2008. :: AFP dal had beaten for the third con- n Saturday 6 July 2008 secutive year to retain his place as style, rain delayed the start of the the following day. bledon men’s finals and one Aus- a young Rafael Nadal the French Open champion, a ti- match by about 35 minutes. In the end play continued into tralian Open. beat reigning Wimble- tle he had held since beating Ar- Nadal won the first two sets 6– the evening and Nadal went on to Two months after his victory at Odon men’s champion, gentinian Mariano Puerta in 2005. 4, 6–4, but rain stopped play once win the fifth set 9-7 and also the the All England Club in London, Roger Federer, in what many have The then 26-year-old Roger again as Federer led the third set match itself, which finally ended in August 2008, Nadal overtook hailed as the greatest Wimbledon Federer had been the Wimbledon 5–4. After a further 80 minute de- at 9.15pm. Federer in the ATP (Association of final in history. champion for five years in a row lay because of the bad weather, The 2008 men’s final also went Tennis Professionals) rankings, as In a match which lasted just 12 and was trying to retain the tro- Federer fought back to win the down in history as the longest world number one. He is currently minutes short of five hours, mak- phy for a sixth year. next two sets, 7–6, 7–6. Another Wimbledon singles final in terms ranked number two after his long- ing it the longest final in history, The 2008 Wimbledon Men’s downpour just before 8pm stopped of time played and the second long- standing rival, Roger Federer. Nadal beat his opponent 6-4, 6-4, Singles final was the third consecu- play for an additional 30 minutes. est final in any Grand Slam until Wimbledon 2018 started on 2 6-7 (3-7), 6-7 (8-10), 9-7 to clinch tive year in which Federer and Na- By the time they returned, it the 2012 Australian Open final. July and the men’s final will take one of the tennis world’s most dal had played against each other was getting dark and there were Nadal has gone on to win 17 place on 15 July. sought-after prizes for the first in that tournament. doubts over whether they would Grand Slam singles titles, 11 French time. The players were due on court be able to continue or if the match Open titles (including this year’s), · Bilingual crossword In the same year the Spanish at 2pm, but in typical Wimbledon would have to be postponed until three US Open titles, two Wim- inside back page July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 39 40 July 6th to 12th 2018 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

All change: new sports and leaders

SOCIETY SCENE held this year at El Paraíso Coun- try Club. Attendees dined al fresco The Costa del Sol society and danced to Rockin’ Johnny. scene continues to Another first for the club this month was a coach trip into the evolve this week, with mountains to have lunch. Many fresh ideas for events regular events continue to take alongside the old place, including Thursday morning meetings; just drop in at Bahía favourites Dorada. www.siberme.com :: SUR IN ENGLISH The Royal British Legion La Cala de Mijas Lions Club Remembering Christine A Touch of Class perform at the Hotel Tamisa Golf. :: SUR A Touch of Class Watson La Cala de Mijas Lions club recently The Mollina branch of the Royal hosted a gala dinner at Hotel Ta- British Legion paid tribute to the misa Golf. The evening started memory of former secretary Chris- with the Costa Soul Singers fol- tine Watson, who died in 2015, lowed by A Touch of Class. The with an annual photography com- President of the Lions, Julie petition held on the day of the Barry, thanked everyone for their Armed Forces Picnic. This year’s generosity in helping the club raise winner was David Grey, who cap- funds for the local community. Ju- tured a Hurricane aircraft in flight. lie finished her year in office on The Mollina branch of the Royal 30 June and announced that the British Legion also paid a visit to club had raised over 75,000 euros Seville on Friday 22 June. in its 20th year. Coming up is the annual dinner In the twenty years since it was which will take place on 13 Sep- founded, the club has raised nearly tember at the Margarita restau- 800,000 euros. Funds are also raised rant. The three-course meal costs at their charity shop at C/Torremo- 20 euros per head, including wine, linos 12, La Cala de Mijas. and will commemorate 100 years since the end of the First World International Club of Estepona War, the formation of the Royal ICE-breaking Activities Air Force and Battle of Britain Day. ICE members enjoyed lunch in the mountains. :: SUR June was particularly busy for ICE For more information, visit and saw the inauguration of a new http://branches.britishle- won a prize for her photograph of of the Spain South district com- What are you up to? sport for Sunday mornings: pe- gion.org.uk/branches/mollina. Dunottar castle, which is situated mittee, Kathryn said: “This com- If you are involved in a club or associa- tanca. This will become a regular near her home town of Stone- petition is one way to kill the myth tion and planning events, trips or activi- ‘Unstuffy’ ties that would be of interest to other feature on Playa Ancha, Casares. haven, in Scotland. Upon receiv- of The Royal British Legion being readers of SUR in English, we would love The main event of the month Spain South RBL member Kath- ing her winnings, a wall tapestry a stuffy organisation of men in to hear from you: was the Summer Dinner Dance, ryn Thorndycraft-Pope recently of her photograph from members blazers.” Email: [email protected] July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 41 42 July 6th to 12th 2018 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

DENISE BUSH GARDENING READER’S PHOTO Sweet viburnum

A versatile plant for a border or in a container, Viburnum odoratissum has fragrant white flowers and shiny foliage

Viburnum odoratissum (some- nums that will survive in a very or as a dense screen or hedge. times listed as V. lucidum), is na- hot climate. Commonly called Left to its own devices it will tive to China, Japan, India and sweet viburnum as the flowers form a medium-sized tree with Burma. It is a surprisingly hardy are sweetly scented, it can be a dense, multi-branched canopy :: MRS CARTER plant and one of the few vibur- grown in a container, in a border but cutting it back hard in spring, and clipping it again after flowering,fl will pro- PRETTY AS A POPPY mmote new growth andan encourage a compactco This photo of ‘Blush Pink’ (bottom left) and ‘Ladybird’ growthgr (top right) poppies was sent in by Mrs Carter from Bena- habit.hab mara Dos Hermanas. SweetS vibur-vi num has GARDENING HINTS large,lar oval,ov leath-lea Keeping up with watering erye leaveslea whichwh turn red in Watering is now a serious appear to be wilting. Another the autumn.a business with early morning problem that comes with liv- The perfumedp and evening soakings neces- ing in the ‘campo’ is often irri- conicalconic racemes sary to keep your garden gation pipes get chewed by of small,sm white looking healthy. Avoid water- rodents. Whether they are flowersflowe appear in ing in full sun as the water looking for a cool drink or just springspring and through the droplets on the foliage will like to chew on plastic pipes summer.summer cause leaf scorching and keep is unclear, but any plants be- After flowering has finished the hose out of the sun as a yond the chewed section be- the green berries appear, gradu- blast of near boiling water come deprived of water while ally turning red and then black won’t do any plant a lot of others at the site of the dam- as they mature; an autumn treat good. If you have an auto- age may become flooded. for the birds. matic irrigation system set Unfortunately there isn’t a Although moderately drought- up, check every nozzle once a solution, except be extra vigi- hardy once established, sweet week to clear any blockages lant and keep a stock of bits viburnum looks best and stays and act quickly if any plants and pieces for repairs. healthier if watered regularly during the driest months of the year. Mulching around the base will PHOTOS help the soil to retain moisture. It is a good idea sprinkle a slow- Calling all Email your photos to eng- release fertiliser around the base [email protected] or send of the plant in the spring. gardeners them to SUR in English, Sweet viburnum will also sur- Avda Dr Marañón 48, 29009 vive short periods of frost and is We know that many of our Malaga, with a caption and a resistant to salt winds close to readers have lovely gardens, few words of explanation. the sea. Councils often use it in or enjoy growing plants on Alternatively, you can send planting schemes in cities as it their terraces or balconies, them to us via Facebook is not bothered by air pollution so why not share them with (surenglish) or Twitter Viburnum odoratissum and close up of bloom (inset). :: WIKIMEDIA or poor, compacted soils. others? (@SUR_English). July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 43 44 July 6th to 12th 2018 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

Gamel Woolsey, the burning poet

marked by the death of her father in terms of numbers or entrenched and tubercolosis, flirted with cin- ideologies; she focused on relating ema during her adolescence, ex- the annihilation of everyday life, plored sexuality in toxic relation- the effects of the bombardments ALBERTO ships and at times was overcome by on her neighbours, who were GÓMEZ her liking for alcohol, but above all dragged into an incomprehensible Woolsey was revealed to be an ex- spiral of blood and vengeance.  Twitter: @Agalmendres traordinary chronicler of the Span- With a tremendous ability to ish Civil War in ‘Malaga en llamas’, notice details, Woolsey turned nor- pon her grave in or ‘Malaga burning’ in English. mal people into the protagonists the English Ceme- As in so many other cases, none of that terror. There was Enrique, tery in Malaga, like of this was enough to offset the the gardener, who planted far more a piece of posthu- macho coup of history, the balance fruits and vegetables than they mous advice, a of patriarchal accounts which she needed in order to give the surplus U Shakespeare verse ended up witnessing as the wife to families with nowhere to grow is written: “Fear no more the heat of Gerald Brenan. their own. María, the cook and o’ the sun.” Gamel Woolsey was From their house in Churriana, housekeeper, who groaned because never a conventional woman. Nor Woolsey and Brenan witnessed the the red mullet cost eight ‘duros’ Woolsey, born in was she fearful. She shunned the start of the war. It had appeared to per pound. The young people who, South Carolina, social and religious impositions of be the loveliest morning of that sum- having had no time to understand lived and died in the first half of the 20th century mer (“in all the rummage box of time anything, were sent to the front. Malaga. to construct her own views, a po- there could hardly have been found The baker who had to hide and :: SUR etic and free perspective which re- a more beautiful day”) but it turned ended up riddled with bullets. The sulted in a short but powerful lit- out to be the prelude to terror. workers in the steel factory, who erary output. This American writer, born in before the war began had called a She got through a childhood 1895, didn’t talk about the conflict strike to demand 15 pesetas a day. July 6th to 12th 2018 45 SUR IN ENGLISH LIFESTYLE

Half a century after her death, Malaga owes a debt to the American writer who brilliantly described the horror of the Civil War but was unjustly relegated and known mostly for being the wife of Gerald Brenan

She gave a voice to those con- she began a passionate relation- demned not to have one. ship with John’s brother Llewe- “She individualised the pain, lyn, a married man, with whom the fear, the hunger and the trag- she had an overwhelming adven- edy,” as writer Rosa Regas said in ture full of frustrations which the book’s prologue. would pursue her even after she ‘Malaga burning’ was not the ti- was involved with Brenan. tle originally chosen by Woolsey: When Gerald and Gamel met, she had opted for ‘Death’s Other they were both carrying emotional Kingdom’, a verse taken from T. S. baggage. Brenan had just come out Hemingway (centre) visited Brenan and Woolsey at their home in Churriana. :: SUR Eliot’s poem ‘Hollow Men’ (“Those of a tangled relationship who have crossed, with direct eyes, with painter Dora Carring- to death’s other Kingdom, remem- ton and other members of Gamel ber us - if at all - not as lost, vio- the Bloomsbury Group. The Woolsey also lent souls, but only as the hollow figure of Llewelyn still hov- published men. The stuffed men”). ered over Woolsey. They novels and The first edition of the book, married in Rome in 1931, books of written in English, was published embarking on a marriage poetry. :: SUR at the end of 1939, when the “based on friendship, affec- author was 44 years old. It was im- tion and mutual admira- mediately discontinued as it coin- tion,” as Regas describes it. cided with the start of the Second In ‘Malaga burning’, World War, which monopolised Woolsey tells how Brenan general interest. could hardly bear the death Zalin Grant, an American writer that surrounded them. The recognised for his narration of an- couple ended up leaving the other conflict, the Vietnam War, country, although they al- was fascinated by Woolsey’s book ways maintained their links and republished it under the title with Spain: “We tried to for- ‘Malaga burning’. get the war, but all the while In Spain, Woolsey’s chronicle it lay heavy and sore at the did not find a publisher until 1998, bottom of our minds”. when Temas de Hoy produced a A short while afterwards, translated version which, on the in 1943, Brenan published Left: Gamel, front page, referred to her marriage ‘The Spanish labyrinth’. painted by with Brenan as a way of attracting Gertrude Mary commercial interest: “The emo- Rejection from Eliot Powys. :: SUR tional testimony of the Civil War Above all, Woolsey was a by the woman who shared her life poet. That lyrical vision of with Gerald Brenan.” the world can also be seen in Paradoxically, Woolsey had al- her prose. She wanted her ways tried to transcend beyond her work, in which she supported cold potato omelette, a little goat’s colleagues, although the mascu- female sexuality and criti- milk cheese, half a loaf of bread, line universe with which she was cised the lack of freedom early muscatels and a small bottle surrounded is key to understand- which asphyxiated women of white wine [...] But suddenly ing her work and her character. of her time, to be published far off inland we heard a rattle of After leaving Charleston, in by T. S. Eliot, whom she admired so of them refer to her time in an American journalist, despite shots, and to the left the ominous South Carolina, she tried her luck much, but he rejected the idea. Malaga, such as ‘Alba’, in which their housekeeper’s warnings: smoke of Malaga burning was still as an actress on the stages of New This was a blow which led her she pays tribute to Churriana. “You’d much better stay at home drifting out to sea.” York and met British writer and into a spiral of apathy, as publisher Her work is scattered with an- in your own garden, and not on the Their perspective as wealthy for- philosopher John Cowper Powys, Carlos Pranger, the executor of Bre- ecdotes about her time in Anda- roads and get yourselves shot by eigners in Spain, which at times who invited her to London. There, nan’s legacy, explains: “She had a lucía, when they lived a comfort- these ill-educated youths,” she told gave the narrative a certain conde- very melancholic temperament able life with several people work- them. scending air, enabled her to relate and Eliot’s disdain didn’t help her, ing for them. They were visited by They didn’t lose their hedonis- episodes such as the bombarde- although her poems were eventu- colleagues such as Ernest Heming- tic vocation even in the most ad- ment of Calle Larios with a certain ally published by others. Her deli- way, Virginia Woolf and E. E. Cum- verse circumstances, as Woolsey distance: “The most important ALBA cate state of health, aggravated by mings and had a busy social life. says: “At last we could see Torre- shopping street in Malaga, also the alcohol, meant that she had to They often went to Torremolinos, molinos, small and white on the filled with smoke and rubble” and Churriana, spend long periods of time in bed,” where there was a sizeable British edge of the sea. Exhausted by the describe ironically some figures I would wrap you up he says. colony. heat, we sat in the shade of an ol- such as Queipo de Llano: “He had and carry you with me — She spent most of her time typ- They also did so at the height ive tree and prepared our meal. It a tremendous fascination for us, like that picture by Greco: ing and editing Brenan’s manu- of the war , when they went to see was a truly Spanish ‘merienda’: we could never resist him; he could Toledo in sun and storm — scripts; she never left his side, de- “tear a cat”, as Shakespeare says. safe in my pocket spite the carrousel of infidelities But unfortunately, it was real”. the fierce light in their relationship. After returning to Malaga, and the broad skies. “They both had strong and ec- She described the war in Above all, Woolsey Gamel Woolsey died of cancer in centric personalities. He was very 1968. Brenan’s diaries reveal that (Poem never published in lively and she had a more nostalgic detail, but in terms of was a poet. “She had a her final days were marked by great Spain, but published in Eng- and poetic air, but they worked very the annihilation of very melancholic pain; the doctor, afraid of being ac- lish in the book ‘The last leaf very well as a couple,” says Pranger. everyday life temperament” cused of euthanasia, wouldn’t al- falls’ by Warren House post- Woolsey wrote six books of po- low her to be sedated. Half a cen- humously in 1978). ems which have never been pub- tury after her death, her work is lished in Spain even though some still shouting out to be rescued. 46 July 6th to 12th 2018 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

Archaeologists at Cueva de la Victoria cave in El Cantal. :: SUR

The remains that were in Salamanca will be returned to the Malaga Museum

least one episode during which it formed part of the diet of the people who caught and ate shellfish. Among the remains was a calcified piece of balanus (a type of barnacle which sticks to the skin of whales), in this case the ‘Tubicinella major’. The balanus is endemic to this southern ce- tacean, which means that “the groups must have carried meat and fat from the whale, which possibly had been washed up on one of two nearby A luxury seafood diet in beaches, to the cave”, as the report explains. The skin of whales was largely covered by shells of this species, creating a type of mobile reef. Paleolithic Malaga First excavation This project first began in the summer of 1972, when Javier Fortea, a professor of Prehistory at Salamanca Cockles and razor clams featured in the diet of the inhabitants of La Victoria University, excavated an area 13 cave more than 13,000 years ago square metres in size in what is known as the Sala de las Conchas (Hall of Shells) at Cueva de la Vic- toria. In that first excavation, he documented various levels of sedi- ment formed by remains of mol- luscs, but also other marine species (crab claws, fish vertebrae and other evidence) and terrestial species. He FERNANDO TORRES also found tools carved from flint and several fishing harpoons made  Twitter: @fernandotorresu with bone. Many of these remains can cur- A study by Salamanca rently be seen at the Malaga Mu- University has shed new seum, after being kept in the city while awaiting a permanent home. light on the way of life Others were kept in storage for 45 of the groups who used years at Salamanca University, and to live in the Rincón de the research has focused on these. Whale barnacles from the cave. :: SUR Harpoon spears and shells. :: SUR “Once we publish the definitive la Victoria area results at an international level we will return the items to the Malaga MALAGA. Clams, razor clams and Museum,” said Esteban Álvarez, a cockles. The groups of humans who professor at the university and di- inhabited the Malaga coastline dur- rector of the works. ing the Paleolithic age had a diet For Álvarez, the results are ex- which would be considered quite tremely valuable because they con- luxurious nowadays: it was based on firm the ability of these early in- the food that the sea placed within habitants of the Malaga coast to ex- their reach, and they were able to ploit marine resources. “We already catch it thanks to rudimentary fish- had information about many coming techniques. In addition to shell- munities inland on the Iberian Pen- fish, the Mediterranean occasionally insula at that time, but we knew served them an even more succulent very little about those who used dish, the meat and fat of a beached to catch shellfish,” he explained. whale. This menu has been revealed One of the best-known groups in a study carried out by the Univer- with fishing skills was in Nerja, sity of Salamanca and presented in but this study has now confirmed Paris during the XVIII World Con- Decorations made from shells. :: SUR Excavations in the cave. :: SUR that another also existed in Cueva gress of the International Union of de la Victoria. Specialists in ma- Prehistoric Sciences. rine and terrestrial fauna, paleo- The research team’s work focused ple who hunted, foraged and fished small animals which they could catch, items with small ‘Littorina obtusata’ lothic archaeology, age-dating and on the caves at El Cantal, between La there between 13,500 and 15,000 such as hares and rabbits. shells, a type of cold water species cave art participated in the study, Cala del Moral and Rincón de la Vic- years ago, during the Late Mag- With regard totheir fishing and which can no longer be found on the which was coordinated by Sala- toria, at the Cueva de la Victoria site. dalenian period in Andalucía. shellfish collection techniques, the coasts of the province today. manca University with the collabo- Remains analysed by modern meth- In addition to the shellfish, the researchers were able to document The ingestion of whale meat could ration of UNED, the University of ods have enabled the scientists to con- diet of the Paleolithic inhabitants of the use of harpoons and fish hooks be anecdotal, although the archae- Valencia and the archaeological firm the presence of groups of peo- Malaga comprised vegetables and made from bone, and decorative ologists have been able to confirm at team from the Ardales Cave. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 47 48 July 6th to 12th 2018 FOOD&DRINK SUR IN ENGLISH

Pulses: healthy and packed with nutrients

Seeds are versatile and offer lots of possibilities

Salads, pâtés and dips, United Nations Food and Agriculture cold purées and Organisation, has been promoting the consumption of pulses for years.s. burgers... pulses can be In Spain, for example, the fourour enjoyed during the weekly rations that were consumedumed summer months as well in the 1960s, has now droppeded to 1.4 servings per week, accordingrding as in winter to data from the Ministry off Ag- riculture, Food and Fisheries.ries. :: ESPERANZA PELÁEZ That is, about 12.4 grammesmes a MALAGA. We live in the age of su- day, a long way from the recom-com- perfoods, and every time we go shop- mended 25 to 45 grammes a day.day. ping we are tempted by new ingre- And if that were not enough,ugh, dients that sometimes we don’t even its cultivation enriches the soil, know how to cook. However, prac- uses little water, emits low tically none of the products that have amounts of carbon dioxide intoto the appeared in supermarkets in recent atmosphere and reduces the needeed to years can beat pulses for nutritional use chemical fertilisers. There are hundreds of PulsesPulse are versatile and very nutritious. :: DANIEL MALDONADO value. Did you know, for example, In our grandparents’ time, disheshes different varieties. :: D. M. that lentils have as much protein as made with pulses were consumed to accompaniment.accom Beans combine very ing from the Middle East, can be quinoa? Or that the chickpea con- all year round. Today, although we soak andand wellwe with sauces such as pesto, green made with chickpeas or beans. Bur- tains as much calcium as cheese? Be- value pulses, we are less inclined to cookk them, there are different solu- mojo, garlic mayonnaise or parsley gers are usually made with cooked cause of their low glycemic index eat hot and hearty casserole dishes tions. It is possible to soak, cook and and lemon dressing. In addition, pulses mixed with onion, garlic and and high fibre content, pulses are ex- in the summer, but there are many store pulses in the fridge with their lemon and any fruit rich in vitamin various seasonings. cellent options for people with dia- alternatives that we can continue to cooking water to add to different C, helps with the absorption of iron. Or you can simply add cooked betes; they are heart-healthy, an ex- enjoy the palette of shapes, colours, dishes, and secondly, you can buy Another way of eating pulses in chickpeas or beans to your usual cellent source of vitamins and iron, flavours and textures that pulses of- them already cooked. the summer is to make them into meals, even to stir-fries and pasta antioxidants and low in fat. fer. And if your excuse is that it is to Pulses can be added to salads and burgers and vegetable croquettes. recipes, turning them into com- For all these reasons, FAO, the much trouble to have to remember grilled vegetables, with any type of The classic falafel, original originat- pletely different dishes. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 49 50 July 6th to 12th 2018 FOOD&DRINK SUR IN ENGLISH

ANDREW J. LINN The Único de Mondrón olive oil HOLLYWOOD TO CATALONIA wins a gold medal at Terraolivo

here are good stories be- bought cuttings of vines from This is the only Extra that was launched in March, after hind many wines but Chateau Lafitte-Rothschild and Virgin Olive Oil in the the company decided to make a pre- the Jean Leon brand is Corton Charlemagne that were province to have won a mium AOVE with the verdial olive T exceptional. Leon’s real unknown in Spain. Other vint- typical of the Axarquía region. name was Ceferino Carrión (San- ners thought he was mad, but he prize at the international “We are very satisfied. We know tander, 1928) and in 1941 he hired oenologist Jaume Rovira awards held in Israel that Único is a great product, but stowed away on a boat to New with a simple instruction: make these awards give us a boost and show York. Within hours of arriving he the best wine in Spain. that our hard work has paid off. It is was washing dishes for $4 a day. Currently the flagship of the :: AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ not easy to get a prize of this impor- As Jean Leon he fought in Korea, Torres-owned bodega is the Cab- PERIANA. The San José Artesano tance and we are convinced that it and on demob worked as a waiter ernet Sauvignon Reserva, and in Olive cooperative in the village of will help us to promote the product in Hollywood, where he became exceptional years a Gran Res- Mondrón in Periana is to be con- commercially,” said Alcántara. friends with the likes of Natalie erva is made, this being the gratulated. In just three months it Wood, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, wine served at Ronald Reagan’s has won two international awards. Increase in sales Judy Garland and James Dean. investiture in 1980. If you In April of this year, the AOVE (Ex- “It gives us increased visibil- Dean proposed they become part- thought the best Spanish red tra Virgin Olive Oil) Único de Mon- ity and puts our name on ners, but was killed the day before wines only come from Rioja and drón won gold at the World Olive the map. With the World they were due to sign the agree- Ribera del Duero, you are in for a Oil Competition in New York Olive Oil Competition in ment. Undeterred, Jean borrowed pleasant surprise. There are also (NYIOOC), the equivalent of the New York our sales in- $3,500 from a friend and opened wines made with Cabernet Oscars of liquid gold in the world, creased by 300 per cent. Af- La Scala society restaurant. Franc, Merlot, Chardonnay and awarded by the prestigious publica- ter that first ‘boom’ we Marilyn Monroe always dined Xarel.lo. The 3055 range (Leon’s tion Olive Oil Times. have managed to maintain early, as did Paul Newman, fol- New York cab licence number) It also won an honorable men- an increase of 150 per cent,” lowed by Humphrey Bogart, offers a Merlot-Petit Verdot, tion in the latest edition of the he explained. Warren Beatty, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Chardonnay and Rosado. awards given by the provincial gov- Eight kilos of olives are Fred Astaire, Elizabeth Taylor, ernment. Now, just two months needed to produce a litre of Marlon Brando, and many other WINE OF THE WEEK later, the Único de Mondrón has Único; for the other extra stars. When Marilyn Monroe La Scala Gran Reserva 2011 achieved more recognition. This virgin oil about five kilos is called Jean at the restaurant on 4 time it was at the International Ol- sufficient. August 1962 to ask him to send Jean León Vinya La Scala Gran ive Oil Competition in the Mediter- The cooperative has pro- some food round to her apart- Reserva 2011, one of Spain’s great ranean, Terraolivo, in Jerusalem (Is- duced only 8,500 litres of ment, Jean took it himself. On red wines, and if you are a claret rael), one of the most prestigious Único de Mondrón this arrival he realised she was not lover, you will be more than satis- competitions at international level. year, which is being mar- alone, so left the tray at the fied with both the quality and The Verdial Único de Mondrón has keted in half litre contain- door. The next morning Marilyn the price (€37.85). For less ex- achieved a Gold Medal and is the ers, costing 6.50 euros each was found dead. pensive tastes, the Cab- only AOVE in the province that has if six bottles are purchased, The intrepid ex-waiter re- ernet Franc and the obtained this award. and cans of 2.5 litres for 18 turned to Spain in 1962 to fulfil Merlot cost around According to the manager of the euros. According to the his lifelong ambition of making €20, with the Cabernet cooperative, Francisco Alcántara, manager of the cooperative, wine. He found a vineyard in Sauvignon Le Havre this is an important achievement, Verdial Único stands out Catalonia’s Penedés region and Reserva at €20. taking into account that Único de both for its extraordinary Mondrón is a fairly new product flavour and aroma. July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 51

TOURISM The professional team at Solaga, a Málaga company that manages this type of holiday accommodation, wants the number of licences to be limited and the regulations observed to guarantee a sustainable model for Málaga “THE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT’S TOURIST APARTMENT DECREE IS LIKE PUTTING A PLASTER OVER A HAEMORRHAGE”

MÁLAGA Larios Street. :: ANDRZEJ OTRBSKI lic safety.” At this point it’s im- The ‘Airbnb effect’ has reached portant to point out that since our coasts over the last few years they are not supervised by any and all the evidence points to it authority or controls, those re- being here to stay. The so-called sponsible for this type of ac- effect is a new model based on commodation fail to observe the tourist apartments that, like al- National Police regulations re- most everything else in life, has quiring guests to be registered its pros and cons. within 24 hours of arrival. This On the plus side, this new style could potentially cause serious of tourism provides travellers problems for the security of the from all over the world with the region. chance to travel in a cheap, more Solaga also suggests that tech- comfortable way. It has a broad nology should be employed to range of options with something restrict excessive acoustic or en- for every type of profile and cir- vironmental contamination and cumstance. avoid undesirable behaviour, Also, we cannot forget that tour- which can cause a problem for ism is an important part of the local residents and the surround- foundations of the province’s ings. “In essence, we want economy and brings boosts to Málaga to follow in the foot- consumption, generation of wealth steps of San Sebastián, not of and job creation. It has also had the tourist apartment sector has cences with no previous checks, of licences, as the mayor of the Magaluf, and that responsibil- a positive effect on the region’s theoretically been regulated by bringing about an unacceptable city has already proposed via a ity lies with the institutions and aesthetics and infrastructure and Decree 28/2016 of February 2nd. situation”. moratorium, to avoid saturation with enforcing observance of is helping to position Málaga in The truth is, however, that in Not in vain, according to data of areas like the historical cen- the necessary measures,” stresses an increasingly prominent place practice this regulation has no from the InsideAirbnb website, tre, where the giant’s share of Alex García, commercial direc- on the international map. restraining or binding effects. As there are 5,200 tourist apart- this type of the accommodation tor of Solaga. Too much of this type of tour- the CEO of specialist tourist ments available in the city, of is concentrated. ism, however, can bring un- apartment company Solaga, Stef- which only 2,600 were regis- Likewise, these professionals wanted situations to the area, fen Hansen, explains: “The de- tered with the Junta de Anda- believe it is absolutely necessary CONTACT especially when insufficient cree has been like sticking a plas- lucía regional government in to “increase the number of in- Solaga measures are taken to control it ter over an enormous wound. It’s March. Almost half the tourist spectors (there are only 8 in the Calle Cortina del Muelle 3, 2B, and guarantee a sustainable time to stop the haemorrhage.” apartments are therefore cur- whole province to keep an eye 29015 Málaga. model for everyone involved. The company states that the rently operating in an illegal on more than 20,000 tourist es- Telephone: +34 952 21 48 91. Junta de Andalucía regional gov- manner, with the subsequent tablishments), impose fines, and www.solaga.com A DECREE THAT IS NOT ernment’s Decree is not ob- risks that brings. close down the illegal flats that OBSERVED served while the institution “sim- Those at Solaga also believe it don’t pay taxes and moreover ADVERTORIAL For the last two years, activity in ply hands out thousands of li- is necessary to limit the number are a potential danger to pub- July 6th to 12th 2018 52 SUR IN ENGLISH

DISCOVER ANDALUCÍA

The Santa Catalina castle will play host to a number of events this summer. :: TURISMO ANDALUZ Summer nights in Jaén The fortress has its charm. :: SUR QUICK GUIDE

What to see in Jaén TWO DAYS JAÉN ive music, star gazing Although the programme of Castillo de Santa Catalina. Car + walking and nighttime candle- events began on 1 June, there Old Arab fortress, recon- lit tours are just some remains much to enjoy at the structed by Christians that sits Journey time: 2 hours and 15 minutes of the treats that lie in ninth-century Arab fortress, on a hill 800 metres above driving from Malaga. L The castle under candlelight: 3 hours. store all summer at one of the which was later reconstructed Jaén. Camino del Castillo, s/n. Monuments and museums: 7 hours. most unique fortresses in An- by the Christians after Fer- 23003 Jaén. dalucía. nando III’s conquest of the The Santa Catalina castle town. Cathedral. Jaén’s main relig- Cordoba Jaén stands atop a hill and can be seen It is, therefore, the ideal set- ious building, constructed be- from a great distance, so in the ting for various medieval-in- tween the 16th and 18th cen- past it was an ideal lookout spired activities. For example, turies. Plaza de Santa María, s/n. Granada point. For the third consecutive this July visitors will be able to 23003 Jaén. Almeria year, the castle is currently play- take part in a spectacular inter- Malaga ing host to ‘Summer Nights active experience that com- Santiago Antiaircraft Refuge. Among Towers and Battlements’ bines awe-inspiring magic Underground settlement built a series of events that unites cul- with gut-wrenching terror. after the city was bombed in JAVIER ALMELLONES ture, art and leisure with the Due to its somewhat alarming 1937. Plaza de Santiago, s/n. cool Jaén evenings. content, ‘Conjura, la víspera 23003 Jaén. del infierno’ (‘Conjuring, the eve of hell’), is only suitable Iberia Museum. Informative for those aged 14 and over. exhibition focused upon Ibe- Also available this month is rian civilisation. Paseo de la Es- ‘Music at the Battlements’, tación, 41. 23003 Jaén. which features unmissable live jazz and soul performances .  Arab baths. Ancient 11th-cen- Furthermore, the castle will be tury remains situated beneath transformed into a stage for an the Villardompardo Palace. exciting evening of classical Plaza Santa Luisa de Marillac, s/n. theatre. 23003 Jaén. During August, the fortress remains open for ‘Castle Be- neath the Stars’, a stargazing programme in which participants can observe the beauty of the night sky while learning about well-known phenomena such as the Tears of San Lorenzo. What’s more, fans of history and theatre will enjoy medieval roleplay events at the castle next month. The month of September will mark the end of this year’s cycle of summer events, with candlelit tours of the castle at night, fire dancing and detec- tive games, where players must use logic to solve the mysteries of crimes committed Candlelit tours feature on the programme of events. :: TURJAÉN in the Alcazar. Remains of the Arab baths. :: SUR July 6th to 12th 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH 53 54 July 6th to 12th 2018 WHAT TO DO SUR IN ENGLISH lnternational jazz festival

:: JENNIE RHODES ATARFE. Grammy-winning American saxophonist, Kenny Garrett, and British swing singer, Claire Martin, with her quartet and swing band The Jump Club, are the international names performing at Atarfe’s seventeenth Festival de Jazz en el Lago this weekend. The event starts on Friday 6 July at 10.30pm with Kenny Gar- rett, followed by the Swing Jump Band at 12.15am. The Claire Mar- tin Quartet will perform at 10.30pm on Saturday, followed by Sergio Pamies at 12.15am. All concerts will take place in the area around the Ermita de Los Tres Juanes in Atarfe, which Kenny Garrett will be playing at the festival. :: SUR is situated almost 1,000 metres above sea level in the Granada Their repertoire, which features INFORMATION mountains. swing and jazz, includes num- Kenny Garrett has a career bers by some of the greats such as spanning three decades and has Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and What. International jazz played with some of the biggest Duke Ellington. festival. names in jazz, including Duke El- Sergio Pamies was born in Gra- lington and Miles Davis. nada in 1983. He is influenced by Where. Atarfe, Granada Claire Martin has won the traditional jazz and flamenco and province. British Jazz Awards seven times his music fused both styles to and is also copresenter of Jazz produce three albums. When. Friday 6 and Saturday Line-Up on BBC Radio Three. Tickets for Friday cost 14 euros 7 July. The Jump Band are based in while on Saturday they are 10 Granada and made up of mem- euros. Tickets for both days can Tickets. www.jazzatarfe.com bers of different nationalities. be purchased for 20 euros. July 6th to 12th 2018 55 SUR IN ENGLISH WHAT TO DO

EXHIBITIONS Malaga. Until 15 July. Museo Thys- sen. The celebrated painter and illustra- tor Gustave Doré and Hispanophile Jean-Charles Davillier, travelled to- Malaga’s Roman cultural gether across Spain compiling images and writings between 1862 and 1873. The engravings made past is brought back to life from Doré original drawings form an important pictorial history of Spain in the nineteenth century. MALAGA. In 2013 the initia- ‘Deja que la vida fluya’ tive to make use of Malaga’s fa- Malaga. Until 18 September. Alfa- mous Roman monument, the jar, C/Císter. Amphitheatre in Calle Alcaz- An exhibition by Mercedes Lirola. abilla, began. A programme of cultural events and activities Dolls House exhibition has taken place every year Benalmádena. Until 14 December. since and includes concerts, Mercedes Lirola, Malaga Centro de Exposiciones de flamenco and Roman theatre. Benalmádena. This year, from 11 July until 4 Javier Calleja Not just dolls houses but dolls and August, a new cycle of Roman Marbella. Until 28 July. Yusto / Gi- miniatures too in this exhibition plays will be performed in the The Teatro Romano. :: SUR. ner Gallery, C/Madera. by collector Voria Harras. ancient theatre. ‘I hope you don’t mind’ is the name All shows start at 10pm and of the latest exhibition by Malaga Happy Artists general tickets are 20 - 25 euros. PERFORMANCE DETAILS artist Javier Calleja. Fuengirola. Until 21 July. La Libé- The retired, students, unem- lula, C/Periana. ployed and holders of the ‘Tar-  11 - 12 July. Dido and Eneas, poráneos Company. International artists Josephine Quintero of Happy Art- jeta Joven’ only pay 15 - 20€. with the Andalucía Baroque Marbella. From 6 July. Jesse Jay Art ists is exhibiting some of her Children’s tickets are 12€ and Youth Orchestra.  25 - 28 July. Esquilo, from Gallery, C/Guadalete. work. FNAC and Corte Inglés card the birth to the death of A collection of art by twenty inter- Mijas Costa. Until 4 September. holders pay 15 - 20€. There is  13 - 14 July. The False Truth Greek tragedy with Rafael national artists. Norwegian Church, El Campa- also a group discount. by the Corchato Teatro. Álvarez ‘El Brujo’. nario, Calahonda. More information and ticket Entre Tierra y Mar Artists from the Happy Artists sales are on the website:  18 - 21 July. The Ghost Com-  1 - 4 August. Naked Dionysus Marbella. From 7 July until 7 Sep- group are exhibiting a collection https://www.juntadeandalu- edy by the Clásicos Contem- with Rafael Amargo. tember. Salón Enseñada Hotel El of paintings in diverse styles by cia.es/cultura/teatrosromanos/ Fuerte, C/El Fuerte. Wendy Lucas, Josephine Quin- An exhibition of watercolours by tero, Jane Gomis, Astrid Frida Ze- Adrián Marmolejo. hetner and Gunnvor Sorhus.

Art Marbella Marbella. From 20 to 25 July. Pala- 80s pop music revival night cio de Ferias y Congresos. An international art fair which will include modern and contemporary works from a number of galleries :: TONY BRYANT across Spain and the rest of the FUENGIROLA. The twenty- world. third edition of the Festival Ciudad de Fuengirola, which in- Naturaleza corporates Marenostrum Music Malaga. Until 30 September. Mu- Castle Park, will present a cal- seum Jorge Rando. endar of live music events that The latest exhibition by Malaga art- will continue throughout the ist Jorge Rando is entitled ‘natu- summer. raleza’. This weekend, Sohail Castle will be transformed in to a huge Creadores 2018 Happy Artists, Mijas night club to host La Noche Rosa, Malaga. Until 8 July. La Térmica, a festival offering the nostalgic Avda de Los Guindos. Alan Wilkinson rock and pop music of the 1980s. Irene González, Ernesto Casero, Castell de Ferro. Until 12 July. Town Some of Spain’s top acts will Enar de Dios, Marco Moreira, Miri- hall. come together for this live music mari Väyrynen and Alejandro Gi- An exhibition of paintings and extravaganza, including Javier nés are the ‘Creadores’ that are ex- drawings by Alan Wilkinson. Ojeda, frontman of Torremolinos hibiting their works. pop sensation, Danza Invisible. Javier Ojeda will headline ‘80s revival night in Fuengirola. :: SUR CHARITY The group have enjoyed a succes- José Luis Puche sion of chart hits since the 1980s, tribute to the late Antonio Vega, ever before. Malaga. Until 26 August. Centro when they formed part of the founder and singer of Nacho Pop, Tickets for the concert, de Arte Contempóraneo. FAMA charity auction musical movement known as La one of the most iconic bands of which starts at 8.30pm and con- Malaga artist José Luis Puche has Fuengirola. 20 July, 7pm start. Hoyo Movida Madrileña. the 80s Spanish pop scene. tinues to 2am, cost between 27 an exhibition at the CAC until 19, Camino Viejo de Coín. Others on the bill are Spanish La Noche Rosa, which takes and 40 euros and are available August. His works vary from just a Sellers (15% commission), items punk band, Seguridad Social; place on Saturday, has become online, or from El Corte Inglés. few centimetres to monumentally must be booked in by 19 July. Buy- new wave rockers, La Union; one of the most popular music Children under 16 must be large formats and include various ers: lots of bargains and food and and Nacho Campillo, lead singer events of the year in Fuengi- accompanied by an adult. themes but have one constant, drinks available. Tel: 672949756 of celebrated pop outfit, Tam rola and organisers have prom- For more information, see they are all created in charcoal with Tam Go. ised that this year’s festival www.marenostrumcastle- touches of colour from pastels or Dry Martina and Cesar There will also be a special will be more spectacular than park.com crayons. brandon poetry recital Malaga. 17 July, 9pm. El Balneario, Mediterráneo. Arcadia Baños del Carmen. 15€. Reinventada A charity concert and poetry recital A charity concert in aid of Cudeca. The Sunflower Campaign 2018 is 948. Malaga. Until 9 September. Museo organised by the Fundación Gen- Bookings: [email protected] or call: aimed at improving awareness of Thyssen. eral de La Univesidad de Málaga. 952564910 Mon-Fri 9am-3pm. the charity’s work. Volunteers will Collective Calling benefit The exhibition consists of works by Funds raised are for Cudeca Cancer be offering the symbol of interna- concert 60 artists, both French and Span- Hospice. fguma.es Cudeca Sunflower Campaign tional palliative care, the sun- Estepona. 13 July, 8.30pm. Centro ish, from the middle of the twenti- Malaga. Until 8 July. Malaga city, flower, in exchange for a donation. Cultural Padre Manuel. 6€. eth century. Daniel Casares Quinteto Arroyo de la Miel, Fuengirola, Mi- To volunteer or for more informa- A concert by Sami James to raise Marbella. 7 July, 8.45pm. Buchin- jas, Nerja, Torremolinos, Marbella, tion: [email protected], or funds for the charity Collective Gustave Doré ger Wilhelmi. 20€ Málaga, Benalmádena. www.cudeca.org or call: 663 265 Calling who support the local 56 July 6th to 12th 2018 WHAT TO DO SUR IN ENGLISH

homeless community and 225 ma 6 July, 11pm. Oblique and Carlos rginalised families on the Costa del Bayona ‘A Song For ... Live!’ By in- Sol. Tickets: 659772448 vitation from Teatro Cervantes. Teatro Cervantes. Ojén lets its hair down MUSIC & DANCE 7 July, 8.30pm. Closing concert with John Powell, Christophe Beck, Taro Iwashiro and Víctor :: TONY BRYANT Ocean Bar Reyes with the Malaga Philhar- OJÉN. It is a typical Andalu- Malaga. Hotel Vincci Posada del monic Orchestra. sian village with white- Patio, 11pm, entry free. washed houses and narrow 7 July. Delirium Blues Fusion. International Festival of Music streets, but in July, Ojén’s re- Lourdes del Pino and Javier Esteve. and Dance served image will be swept Blues fusion. www.tallerblues.es Granada. Until 8 July, Palacio de away by the Ojeando Festival, Carlos V, Alhambra. a two-day independent music Loop Soul Choirs, orchestras, Flanders Royal festival where more than 40 Almuñécar. 7 July, 10.30pm. Par- Ballet, flamenco and opera. bands will perform on three que El Majuelo. 8€ in advance, The full programme and availabil- large stages. 10€ on the door. ity of tickets etc: https://granadaf- The festival promotes inde- María Romero and Carlos in con- estival.org/programa/ pendent rock and pop music, cert. combining established groups FLAMENCO and musicians with emerging Tees Valley Youth Orchestra musicians from Andalucía. The Almuñécar. 8 July, 10.30pm. Par- festival, which began in 2008, que El Majuelo. Flamenco in the Museum has become an essential date for A charity concert to raise funds for Malaga. Museo de Arte Flamenco lovers of independent music AFAVIDA (Alzheimer charity). Peña Juan Breva, C/Ramón Fran- and attracts thousands of fans Dreyma will perform at the independent music festival. :: SUR quelo. from all over the province. Rubén Blades and the Roberto 7 July, 9.30pm. Juan Kade and The festival has presented Petiswing, Alex Sánchez and dren under the age of 18 must Delgado Salsa Big Band dancers. numerous well-known acts in Betamax. There are also several be accompanied by an adult, Malaga. 8 July, 8.30pm. Teatro For information and bookings call the past, including Fangoria, a renowned DJs who will keep while children under 12 have Cervantes. 22-75€ 687 607 526 or email: celebrated electro-pop group the music going between acts. free entrance. The Roberto Delgado Big Band will [email protected] fronted by Alaska, one of These include Alsout, famed The festival, which begins at be accompanied by singer and actor Spain’s most fashionable female for his high energy techno- 9pm on Friday 13 and continues Rubén Blades performing some of singers. house, and Isabela Clerk, a on Saturday 14 July, has access for his greatest hits. Blades is one of Among the musicians ap- Seville-based DJ that made her people with reduced mobility; a the most acclaimed salsa and Latin pearing this year is Chris Mar- name on the Spanish summer special elevated area has been in- jazz musicians of the Grammys. tin, frontman and co-founder festival circuit. stalled so people with wheel- Tickets: unientradas.es of British pop sensation, Cold- A special bus service has been chairs can watch the concerts in play; celebrated Barcelona organised by the AVANZA trans- comfort. Hispanoamericano singer and composer, Carlos port company to ferry people People with reduced mobility Almuñécar. 10 July, 10.30pm. Par- Sadness; and Dreyma, a female from Marbella to Ojén. are advised to contact the or- que El Majuelo. duo from Malaga whose latest A set ticket price of 27 euros ganisers prior to the festival on A journey through the musical video single honours the allows access for both days. The the [email protected] geography of Hispanic America. Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. price for those who also wish email. Tickets: entradasforyou.com Among the other groups to take advantage of the camp- For tickets and information, performing are Bud Spencer, ing facilities is 42 euros. Chil- see www.ojeando-festival.es Bucks County Youth Orchestra Nerja. 13 July, from 8pm. Centro Daniel Casares, Marbella Cultural Villa de Nerja. Free. The repertoire includes music by Bach and Rimsky Korsakov, music Flamenco Patrimonio from The Hobbit and Downton Ab- Malaga. Teatro Romano. A ‘seeing and touching’ exhibition bey as well as Cole Porter and Duke 6 July, 10pm. Guitarist Daniel Ellington. Casares: Picassares. 7 July, 10pm. Víctor Bravo: Ale- Jazz Wednesdays goría. :: SUR IN ENGLISH Vélez-Málaga. Centro de Arte All tickets from 20€ in advance MALAGA. A blown bulb, some Contemporáneo Francisco from El Corte Inglés. elastic bands, plastic lids, a per- Hernández. fume bottle, a few flowers and 11 July, 8.30pm. Dan Ben Lior Trío. La Jose some loose letters of the alpha- Almuñécar. 9 July, 10.30pm. Par- bet. All these can be made into La Cala Live que El Majuelo. a piece of art, they just need to La Cala de Mijas. Every Thursday With José Luis Montón playing be converted from functional May to September. guitar. Tickets: entradasforyou.com items into something creative. Live bands and dance performances This is what the Centre will take place in the plaza in front Laura De Los Ángeles Pompidou in Malaga is encour- the town hall. Almuñécar. 12 July, 10.30pm. Par- aging people to do in its new 12 July. Stolen Gnomes. que El Majuelo. 8€ in advance, workshop/exhibition ‘¡Mate- 12€ on the door. riales retroproyectados!’ Rob Sas band Flameco piano and vocals. With the aid of light, the Coín. 13 July, 5pm. The Ginger Pig. modified shadows of the ob- A young boy creates shapes with the projector. :: S. SALAS 15€. FESTIVALS jects can be viewed on a screen. Rock n Roll and BBQ with special It is an exhibition where the INFORMATION suited to families and its objec- guest band Karma. artist is the visitor and as such, tive is to introduce visitors to Fiestas Mayores is encouraged to touch and artistic creation by three Stars in Their Eyes Estepona. Until 8 July. watch the transformation.  When. Until 11 January 2019. methods: ‘Special Effects’, Mijas. 20 July, 7.30pm. Hotel Ta- Concerts, horse riding competi- The main element of this ex- which encourages the use of misa Golf. tions, dancing and bullfights (Sun- hibition is the overhead projec-  Where. Centro Pompidou, tricks that can alter the visual Hotel Tamisa Golf is calling all bud- day) at this popular fair which tor, a popular tool decades ago, Muelle Uno, Malaga. image; ‘Materials and Objects’ ding stars to enrol for the chance to marks the beginning of July . which has been left behind by which shows how the pieces perform in a Christmas Gala Event. modern technology and the  What. A family-friendly inte- and forms can be used in the The contest is being held on 20 Feria de Verano digital age. ractive exhibition entitled ¡Mate- composition of the designs and July. Email: [email protected] or Los Álamos. 7 July, from 9pm. But just like vinyl records, it riales retroproyectados!’ where ‘Image Support’ in which the [email protected] In the sports centre, a concert by is making a comeback and con- the artist is also the visitor. light source projects the ob- Call: 722 336 978. the Alboreá orchestra, activities for temporary artists haven’t jects onto three white grounds children, food and bar. wasted any time in rescuing this visual and ephemeral creations. which serve as the base for the MOSMA dated apparatus to use it in their The exhibition is especially shadowy images. Malaga. Until 7 July. Fiestas de San Cristóbal Teatro Echegaray. Nerja. 6, 7 July, from 8pm. The Los July 6th to 12th 2018 57 SUR IN ENGLISH WHAT TO DO

Poetas quarter. Whitney: 16.30, 20.20, 22.30 Alfonso Ponce de León. Show Dogs: 14.30 (Sat, Sun). Concerts, choirs, orchestras, fla- (every day). Tel: 902 902 103 or visit menco as well as a paella (Saturday www. yelmocines.es Screenings of opera, ballet, at 2pm), foam party and activities Cinesur El Ingenio Adrift: 12.45 (Sat, Sun); 16.10 documentaries and theatre for children. Avda. Juan Carlos 1, Vélez-Málaga. (Mon, Tues, Thurs). www. yelmocines.es Tel. 667 77 31 87. Ant Man And The Wasp: 12.45 Muse Drones World Tour: 12 EVENTS Ant Man and the Wasp: 12.30, (Sat, Sun); 22.00 (every day). July, 20.30. (Plaza Mayor, Rincón 17.25, 19.50 (every day). Sicario: The Day Of The Soldado: de la Victoria, Vialia Málaga). The Beguiled: 21.00 (Thurs). 12.40 (Sun), 21.20 (Mon). Malaga Summer Fashion Show Hereditary: 12.05 (Sat); 16.45 Cinesa La Cañada La Caleta. 6 July, 7.30pm. La Caleta Cinesur Miramar (Sun, Wed). La Cañada commercial centre, beach. Free. Avda. de la Encarnación, Fuengi- Jurassic World: The Fallen King- Marbella The international designer, Elena rola. Tel. 952 19 86 00. dom : 16.35 (every day). www.cinesa.es/Eventos/Todos#d Tablada, along with several Malaga Jurassic World: The Fallen King- The First Purge: 16.00 (every ocumental companies including Entre Costu- Trip to the Alhambra, Lux Mundi dom: 17.55. day). Muse Drones World Tour: 20.30 ras and Antonia Galiano and Haute Ant Man And The Wasp: 12.15, Ocean’s 8: 18.40 (every day). (Thurs). Couture designers Ángel Palazue- Torre del Mar. 25 July. Various de- 16.30; 19.00, 21.30, 00.00. los, Rafael Urquízar and Jesús Se- parture points. 35€ Ocean’s 8: 12.10, 16.00, 18.00, gado, will be presenting their latest Flamenco show in the Generalife 20.15, 22.20, 00.30. designs on the beach catwalk. gardens of the Alhambra Palace. Sicario 2: 12.00, 16.20. The dance is inspired by the poems, Muse Drones World Tour: 20.30 Marina Classic Week plays and writing of Federico (Thurs). Sotogrande. Until 7 July. Soto- García Lorca. Lux Mundi Torre del grande port. Mar. Tel:952 543 334 or e-mail: Cines Teatro Goya The first Marina Sotogrande Classic [email protected] For tickets and information call Week will include four majestic 951196665. www.cinesteatro- sailboats, Hispania (Spain), Tuiga O. V. FILM goya.com (Monaco), Mariska (Switzerland) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: and Lady Anne (UK) and around SUR in English advises calling 15.45 (every day); 17.45 (Fri - another twenty classic vessels be- cinemas to check for any last min- Wed). tween 10-15 metres to take part in ute time changes. Lunchtime and Dead Pool 2: 17.30, (Fri, Sat, Mon, the competition. late night screenings weekends Tues); 18.10 (Sun). only. I Feel Pretty: 20.30 (Fri - Wed). Coach excursion to Gibraltar Show Dogs: 16.15 (Fri - Wed). Torre del Mar. 19 July. Various de- Cine Albéniz Ocean’s 8 : 15.45, 18.15, 20.30, parture points. 12€ C/Alcazabilla 4, Malaga. Tel: 902 22.45 (every day). Transport, travel insurance 36 02 95 or visit www.cinealbe- Ant Man and The Wasp: 15.45, included. Passport necessary. Lux niz.com or www.unientradas.es 18.10, 20.30 (Fri - Thurs). Mundi Torre del Mar. Tel:952 543 On Chesil Beach: 16.30, 22.05 Sicario: Day of the Soldado: 334 or e-mail: luxmundi@lux- (every day). 18.10, 22.45 (every day). mundi.org Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot: 18.30, 20.35, 22.40 Yelmo Cines, Plaza Mayor Trip to Lorca Festival Granada (every day). Centro de Ocio Plaza Mayor, Avda. 5858585858585858 July 6th to 12th 2018 HEALTH&BEAUTY SUR IN ENGLISH Over eight million babies in the world have been born thanks to fertility treatments

Since 1978, new (blastocysts) are used instead of fertilisation those which are three days old. techniques have led to Fewer twins an increase in the The number of pregnancies which number of conceptions occur after the donation of ovules continues to rise and is now at 50 of this type per cent, while the number of pregnancies of twins has dropped in :: EFE Europe, to 14 per cent in 2015. More than eight million babies The president of the ESHRE com- have come into the world thanks mittee, Christian de Geyter, ex- to fertility treatments since the plained that “the success rates have first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Brown, stabilised, although there is con- was born in 1978, according to a tinuing progress from ovule dona- study which was presented re- tion and the use of frozen embryos”. cently at the conference of the Nevertheless, the greatest in- European Society of Human Re- crease has been from treatments us- production and Embryology ing frozen ovules, propitiated by the (ESHRE), in Barcelona. vitrification technique all over the Louise, the first baby to be born world. as the result of in vitro fertility According to De Geyter, the avail- treatment, was born on 25 July ability oof fertility treat- 1978 at Oldham General Hospital ments is still “very in the UK, after a conception uneven”uneve in guided by a reproductive biologist EuropEurope, with from Cambridge, Robert Edwards DenmDenmark and - who later founded ESHRE - and BelgiBelgium of- gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe. fering over The study, which shows the num- 2,52,500 bers of babies born as the result of The number of pregnancies from donated ovules continues to rise. :: FOTOLIA tretreat- different fertility techniques, used menment cy- data collated from regional registers ried out every year. 2015, shows that there were nearly preg-eg- cles for between 1991 and 2014. The study shows that Spain is still 800,000 cycles and 157,449 births. nancyncy eveverye The experts on the international the most active country in Europe Among other findings, the study rate for one mil- committee which monitors the in terms of assisted reproduction, shows a preference among Euro- the two lion in- progress of this system have esti- with a record 119,875 treatment cy- pean clinics for the intracytoplas- treat-at- habithabitants, mated that more than half a mil- cles registered in 2015, ahead of Rus- mic sperm injection technique ments has whewhereas lion babies are born each year as sia, France and Germany. (ICSI) rather than in vitro fertili- stabiliseded byby Louise Brown, the first other coun- the result of different reproduc- The latest report from ESHRE, sation, and this pattern is reflected 36 per centnt and tries suchsu as Aus- test tube baby. :: EFE tive techniques; a total of two mil- which includes all fertility treat- in the rest of the world as well. increases when tria anand Italy offer lion fertility treatments are car- ments carried out in Europe in The study also shows that the five-day-old embryosmbryos “conside“considerably fewer”.

NHS FUNDING SURGICAL PROCEDURES, CLAIM UP TO 80% BACK ON COSTS FOR YOUR SURGERY PERFORMED IN SPAIN

Depending on your citizen status healthcare provider in the coun- The typical surgical procedures in the UK you might be able to try of your choice. This would eligible for funding are elective claim back up to 80% of the costs mean that you would have to go surgeries with a long waiting list for any selective surgery that you to a national health hospital here in the UK, like hip and knee re- might want to undergo in Spain. in Spain to have the procedure placement surgery. If you are in the need of any done. In that case the NHS would It is important though that you surgery and you are considering most certainly pay the full amount get in touch with the NHS prior having it done down here in of the costs. But you might not to the procedure, and prove that Spain, like a total knee or total only be faced with a long waiting you are eligible for the procedure hip replacement, you could be list, but also encounter some com- by providing the appropriate pa- eligible for a considerable refund munication problems due to a per work. Our team would be by the British NHS. Although possible language barrier. more than happy to help you with you are most certainly in posses- The other option would be the that. Once you get the approval sion of the European Health In- EU directive route. This is a fund- by the NHS, they might even pay surance Card (E111), this card ing arrangement between you and a certain amount in advance as would only cover you for emer- the NHS. Using this route means part of the funding, to help you gency treatments, but it would you will have to pay the costs of finance the cost of the surgical not cover the costs for any elec- your treatment abroad upfront procedure. The other important tive surgery that you might want and then claim eligible costs from detail is that the above mentioned to have done in any country of the NHS when you return. For funding scheme might not be the European Economic Area, some treatments you’ll need to available anymore once the Brexit including Switzerland. get authorisation from NHS Eng- has gone through. For any fur- There are two possible routes land prior to receiving treatment. ther questions please don’t hesi- to claim some refunds from the But it would give you the option tate to get in touch with us. NHS. The so-called S2 route is a to receive treatment by a private direct funding arrangement be- surgeon and have the procedure ADVERTORIAL tween the NHS and the state performed in a private hospital. July 6th to 12th 2018 59 SUR IN ENGLISH HEALTH&BEAUTY About 70 per cent of 35-year-old women in Spain have no children

“We know that fertility reduces naturally around the age of 35, so this gives us a very big problem,” says an expert

:: EFE MADRID. About 70 per cent of 35- year-old women in Spain are child- less, according to the Spanish Fer- tility Society (SEF), which says that at this age women’s fertility naturally reduces and many seek treatments in order to become pregnant. The SEF explained this during the presentation of its national con- Spain is a leader in assisted reproduction. :: SUR gress, and stressed the need for policies which favour more births be- to couples or women who had trav- ish women tend to postpone moth- cause Spain is one of the countries elled to Spain for the fertility treat- erhood to a later age. In fact, the av- with the lowest birth rates, al- ments, because of the excellent erage age of patients undergoing though it is a “leader” in terms of reputation of experts in this coun- these treatments is 37. assisted reproduction. try and because the legislation here The figures show that 47 per cent Figures from SEF’s National Reg- is more flexible, for example in mat- of in vitro fertilisation cycles using ister of Activity show that in 2015, ters such as ovule donation. the patients’ own ovules are carried the last year for which data is avail- The register also shows a nine per out on patients aged between 35 able (the latest ones will be pub- cent increase in these treatments and 39, while 67 per cent of the lished this summer), 36,318 babies compared with the previous year, treatments using donated ovules were born following fertility treat- and the figures make Spain a leader are carried out on women over 40. ments, of whom 29,366 were born in Europe and third in the world af- In total, 70 per cent of in vitro fer- in Spain, accounting for seven per ter the USA and Japan. tilisations in Spain in 2015 used the cent of all deliveries. Experts predict that the number patients’ own ovules, and in 30 per The other 6,952 babies were born of treatments will rise, because Span- cent of cases they were donated. 60 July 6th to 12th 2018 HEALTH&BEAUTY SUR IN ENGLISH

Cancer association expands services in Marbella with a day centre for patients and their families

The town council has Those in charge of the associa- formalised the transfer of tion, led by Maika Pérez de Cobas, have already set to work on the the Spanish Cancer space - which covers more than Association headquarters 600 square metres - so that it can into the premises of the be transformed into a day centre “as soon as possible” in order to old provincial tax office provide support to local patients and their families. :: MÓNICA PÉREZ The association, currently im- MARBELLA. Said and done. A few mersed in preparations for their Maika Pérez de Cobas, with Juan Carlos Domínguez and the team working on the project. :: J-LANZA months ago, representatives from annual gala dinner on 5 August, the Spanish Cancer Association has not yet scheduled a date for charge), such as awareness cam- room for a host of new activities, (AECC) made an agreement with the official transfer of their head- paigns, voluntary work from medi- like meditation, memory, exercise local authorities that granted the quarters from Avenida Severo cal professionals, psychological The new facility will and cooking workshops and a tele- former access to new facility which Ochoa, as the new premises will help, a smokers unit, a laryngec- have room for a host of vision room. “We want people to would serve as a headquarters and need to be adapted. The group has tomy unit (which offers weekly feel at home. It is a challenge be- day centre. Last week, Doctor Juan revealed to SUR that they plan to voice rehabilitation sessions) and new activities, including cause this is a public establishment, Carlos Domínguez, head of the pal- use the proceeds from the gala din- the palliative care unit, which has meditation, memory but we have a responsibility to of- liative care unit at AECC and the ner to help fund the works, and been open for 24 years and is na- and cooking workshops fer the best we can,” explains Pé- Costa del Sol Hospital and town hope to have the centre open by tionally-recognised for its work. rez de Cobas. councillor Manuel Osorio, signed the end of this year. The president of AECC has the a document to formalise the trans- The new space will accommo- Workshops and courses support and collaboration of a gen- fer of the premises of the old Pro- date the association’s existing serv- In addition to the existing serv- erous group of professionals, who vincial Tax Office to AECC. ices (all of which are free of ices, the new facility will also have continue to offer help uncondi- July 6th to 12th 2018 61 SUR IN ENGLISH HEALTH&BEAUTY The number of smokers in Spain has

Moving from the fallen to 22%, the lowest in 30 years existing headquarters will mean a monthly According to the 2017, health as improved. The largest saving of 2000 euros National Health Survey, change has been among those aged between 65 and 74. The proportion 74% of the population of this age group who believe they tionally. Carolina Rivero and Al- consider themselves to are in good health has increased by berto Aranega, two young archi- be in ‘good’ or ‘very 15 percentage points since 1987. tects who have recently opened up a new business, Office For Co- good’ health Some risk factors remain working Architects, in Marbella, Risk factors for cardiovascular prob- paid a visit to the facilities to give :: EFE lems and other chronic illnesses re- shape to the project and identify MADRID. The number of smokers main prevalent: high blood pressure any necessary courses of action. in Spain has fallen to 22%, the low- (19.8%), high cholesterol (17.9%), “They need a new roof and to re- est proportion this country has seen obesity (17.4%) and diabetes (7.8%). wire the electrics. You can see that in 30 years, though the decline is In fact, in many cases, these issues they’ve made the more urgent re- slowing in pace, especially in have doubled over the last three dec- pairs, but no serious renovations,” women. According to last year’s Na- ades. 37.8% of the population lead a the pair observes. tional Health Survey, 74% of the sedentary lifestyle during their free Another challenge is making the population perceives their state of The decline in smoking is slowing in pace. :: SUR time. This problem is worse in space accessible. Acclaimed Cata- health to be ‘good’ or ‘very good’. women (41.9%) than in men (33.5%). lan interior designer Sara Folch The survey, conducted using data tion and Social Wellbeing, adult obe- amount of male drinkers is double The proportion of the population also visited the headquarters this from 29,195 people, indicates that sity has increased in the last 30 years that of women (24.6%). that needs at-home carers has grown week, another keen collaborator men are healthiest, as 77.8% said that from 10% to 17%. It is more frequent With regards to young people, by five points since 2014 and the per- in the project. they feel well, compared to 70.4% of in men (18.2%) than in women one in ten of those aged between 15 centage of over-65s who have trou- In an effort to allow the new women. What’s more, women make (16.7%). The figure in children is at and 34 years old will binge drink on ble carrying out household tasks has services to reach more people and more use of health services. 10%. The survey states that obesity a monthly basis and one in twenty risen from 47% to 52%. better adapt to specific needs, Nevertheless, when surveyed is more prominent among those will do so every week. The use of health services has AECC is considering expanding about their lifestyle, women tended with a lower income, especially for The survey, which covers 30 years’ evolved over the last two decades. their staff and office hours. The to smoke and drink less and were women. worth of data, also shows improve- Spain has seen an increase in citi- hope is to be open 12 hours a day. less likely to be overweight, although In addition to reduced smoking, ments in nutrition, with an increase zens who choose to use preventa- The move from the existing this gap closes beyond the age of 85. the consumption of alcohol has also in breast feeding and in consump- tive methods such as observing their headquarters will mean a monthly gone down. According to the survey, tion of fruit, though the latter, along- own blood pressure, cholesterol and saving of 2,000 euros in rent. This Increased adult obesity 36.5% of adults drink alcohol on a side vegetables, must increase fur- blood sugar, as well as attending money can now be put towards According to the data collected by regular basis, 12 percentage points ther. The data also indicates that the checks for breast, cervical and colon better patient care. the Ministry of Health, Consump- fewer than in 2006. At 49%, the population perceives their own cancer. 62 July 6th to 12th 2018 SPORT RUSSIA 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH

der the pressure and the host team came out victorious, to the delight Change afoot as Spain digests of partisan fans inside Luzhniki Stadium. Pointing the finger Inevitably in the fall-out after the World Cup penalty heartbreak game, the attention came back to ‘Lopetegui-gate’ and Spanish FA chief Luis Rubiales’ decision to sack the coach a day before the Missed spotkicks from Koke and Iago Aspas proved costly for La Roja start of the competition. Fernando Hierro inherited a poi- soned chalice and the effect of the ute, Fernando Hierro’s men played change could been seen in La Roja’s it safe, settling into their trade- stuttering group stage results mark possession game. which yielded just a single win (1- Though the Spaniards completed 0 againstg Iran), courtesy of a mas- a record-breaking 1,1000 passes (73 sivesive deflection.deflect MADDY DARYL per cent possession),on), their The fluidityflui of the Lope- HAY FINCH play lacked thee neces- tegui eraer quickly van-  [email protected] sary penetrationration ished anda instead, and they were massivemassi defen- It is almost certain that punishedhed sive weak- Fernando Hierro will not when Ger-Ger- nessesness beard Piqué’squé’s camecam evi- continue as coach as error of dentdent and Spain embarks on a new judge-ge- theth era without Andrés Iniesta mentnt cracracks saw himhim whichwh blockk a had pre- MALAGA. There are still questions possibleible viouslyviou to be answered after the curtain Russiansian beenbeen pa- was brought down on Spain’s ter- goal with peredpe rible World Cup campaign with a high arm. overover came elimination at the hands of Rus- The refereeferee to theth fore. sia on Sunday evening. awarded a pen- Fernando Hierro in tears SpainSpa must Spain’s host-nation ‘curse’ con- alty and Artem following the game. :: REUTERS now starts over. tinued in Moscow when a slow- Dzyuba levelledled the The majority-pos-m paced 1-1 draw eventually con- score five minuteses before session tacticta that served cluded with a nail-biting penalty half time. them well in previouspr years has fi- shootout in which Russia’s cap- Despite the level scoreline,line thethe nallynally faltered:falt Spain’s World Cup tain and goalkeeper Igor Akinféev second half saw further conserva- 2018 journey is over, almost cer- saved attempts from Koke and Iago tive play from Spain and the match tainly spelling the end for Hierro. Aspas, while Russia converted all went into extra time as no goals “It is, or rather, has been a pleas- four of their spotkicks. materialised. As the Russians tired, ure coaching these guys,” he said on substitute Rodrigo, courtesy of his TV following the game, repeating A strong start quick feet, created two good the phrase four times. “They have After an own goal from Russia’s chances in extra time, but the hosts given everything and have been Sergei Ignashevich gifted Spain held out and took it to penalties. model professionals. Our objective the perfect start in the 11th min- The Russian players celebrate after Akinféev’s final penalty save. :: EFE Ultimately, Spain buckled un- was to go far in this World Cup.” July 6th to 12th 2018 63 SUR IN ENGLISH SPORT

Andrés Iniesta’s final game, to be remembered for all the wrong reasons

The former Barcelona playmaker came on as a second-half substitute but couldn’t turn the game in Spain’s favour

:: DARYL FINCH MALAGA. It was not an exit befit- Luis Enrique at the 2002 World Cup. :: ABC ting one of the finest players ever to grace world football. “Sometimes the end is not as you dream; this is the saddest day of my career,” said An- Luis Enrique, Míchel or drés Iniesta who will leave a massive void to be filled both at Barcelona and Sánchez Flores? Who will in the Spanish national team as he moves on to a new phase in his ca- be the next Spain coach? reer with Japanese side Vissel Kobe. Sunday’s game was Iniesta’s last in a Spain shirt. :: REUTERS Sunday’s defeat to Russia was Ini- esta’s final game in a Spain shirt. Sur- it when he penned an open letter to 131 caps, scoring 13 goals, includ- prisingly rested by coach Fernando fans on Tuesday: “I think I’ve been ing the winner in the 2010 World :: COLPISA in disappointment. Hierro, presumably for greater tests lucky to live one of the best phases Cup final against the Netherlands. MADRID. Ever since Julen Lope- In a poll conducted by SUR, Luis to come, the 34-year-old only came of Spanish football, with a genera- Now, though, he says, “is the time tegui’s departure on 13 June, three Enrique was the overwhelming fa- off the bench in the 67th minute and tion of players who have been and to step aside”. “The future is excit- names have been continually vourite among fans, with 52 per struggled to make an impact on the are exceptional in every way. ing, with a group of players who are linked with the Spain head coach cent of the vote. The Champions game as Russia got men behind the “We have achieved great success, incredible and who from now on role: Luis Enrique, Míchel and League and two-time La Liga win- ball, and his teammates failed to make things that we all dreamed of when will have me as a fan, supporting Quique Sánchez Flores. ner was capped 62 times by Spain, the runs for him to pick out. we were young, but we have also had them unconditionally. I have no The trio, who are all free agents participating in two World Cups The now former Barcelona mid- great disappointments and we have doubt that what is ahead will be after their spells with Barcelona, and one European Championship. fielder’s final international game will experienced very difficult moments.” wonderful and that great successes Malaga and Espanyol, respectively, Quique Sánchez Flores and be remembered for all the wrong rea- Iniesta first represented his coun- will be reaped, as the group there came to an end, continue to be the Míchel took second and third place sons, but he was philosophical about try 14 years ago and went on to win is impressive.” frontrunners now that Fernando with 30 and 18 per cent of the vote, Hierro’s spell in the hotseat ended respectively. 64 July 6th to 12th 2018 SPORT RUSSIA 2018 SUR IN ENGLISH

What penalty ROB PALMER curse? England A LOOK AT LA LIGA Commentator, Sky Sports @robbopalmer progress to the quarters with win Amigos’. over Colombia Roberto to the rescue I’ve admired his scholarly approach to football as he advanced from being a third-tier player to COLOMBIA 1 (3) ENGLAND 1 (4) World Cup manager. He’s uni- He left Spain a nobody, fied a Belgium changing room :: DARYL FINCH but could Belgium where half speak French, half MALAGA. England’s World Cup speak Dutch and all have a high penalty curse has finally been bro- manager Roberto regard for themselves. The Span- ken. Fourth time lucky, it was a Martínez be the iard does this by delivering his spotkick from Eric Dier on Tues- team talk in the neutral language day night which eliminated Co- perfect choice to of English. lombia after Yerry Mina’s late revitalise La Roja? Since his first game against Spain equaliser had forced extra time. in 2016 he went undefeated all the The Lions had taken the lead way to the World Cup Finals. twelve minutes into the second We suspected it on the eve of the The Everton fans didn’t appreci- half of the last 16 clash in Moscow tournament, now we know it to ate him even though he took them when Golden Boot leader Harry be true. The “poaching” of Julen to two domestic semi-finals and the Kane tucked the ball away from Lopetegui created more dishar- last 16 of the Europa League. This the spot after being wrestled to mony in Spain than a year of po- after securing 6th place in 2014. the ground by midfielder Carlos litical arguments. At Wigan he goes down in folk- Sánchez. Ultimately it was like the step- lore as the man who inspired the However, just after Jordan Pick- father standing in to take the kids club to the FA Cup final win against ford appeared to have secured the to the zoo. Fernando Hierro thought the mighty Manchester City in 2013. win in stoppage time with a world- he knew how to handle the behav- The year before he’d kept them in class save from Mateus Uribe’s iour and idiosyncrasies of the egos the Premier League by beating Liv- stinging drive, Colombia were level he was asked to babysit but he just erpool, Arsenal, Manchester United as Barcelona’s Mina headed home wasn’t able to gather their focus. ‘Bobby’ Martínez has been Belgium coach since 2016. :: REUTERS and Newcastle in a run of seven the resulting corner. The plans for the World Cup fi- wins in nine games. Danny Rose spurned the only nals started two years ago; Lopet- up and scattered on the tarmac as knockout game. He is also one of the most genu- chance in extra time, before Pick- gui’s approach was similar to Ga- Lopetegui jetted home to answer So what now for Spain? There ine people I have ever met. Not in ford made himself the hero in the reth Southgate’s – he was creating the call from Real Madrid. has been a loud call in some quar- football, in life itself. shoot-out. The Everton keeper a pathway and legacy. How foot- Where there once was harmony ters for Roberto Martínez to come So his name has to be in the flung out his hand to save Carlos ball federations love buzzwords like and organisation there was now dis- home and take on the role. frame given his managerial achieve- Bacca’s effort after Uribe had hit those! harmony and distraction. The lead- In the interests of full disclosure ments. He could be heading home the crossbar with his, cancelling In truth Spain’s team is in a dif- ers of the team didn’t lead. David I have to admit that I’m a big ad- after leaving the footballing out- out Jordan Henderson’s miss. ferent sphere, in fact few of the Eng- De Gea looked far from the most mirer of the man I met on his very post of CF Balaguer twenty-three This gifted Dier the chance to land team would even get into the respected goalkeeper in Europe. first day in the country back in 1995. years ago. secure a place in the quarterfinals Spain squad. England have a plan Gerard Piqué appeared diverted, It was my idea to take him and his He left a footballing nobody and and he duly obliged, tucking the though and Southgate managed to Sergio Ramos was unable to pull two Spanish compatriots to Wigan is now well qualified to return to ball into the side netting, out of advance by following the long-con- the group together and Andrés Ini- Pier, feed them Uncle Joe’s mint the top job in Spanish football. the reach of David Ospina. sidered ideas. Spain’s plan was ripped esta wasn’t selected to start the balls and christen them the ‘Three Vamos Roberto, Go Bobby Go. Gareth Southgate’s side now take on Sweden in Samara tomor- row, Saturday, at 4pm. July 6th to 12th 2018 65 SUR IN ENGLISH SPORT TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

GROUP STAGE 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Egypt France Japan Mexico Ekaterinburg vs. vs. vs. vs. Ekaterinburg Arena Uruguay Peru Senegal Sweden 0-1 1-0 2-2 0-3 Croatia Serbia Spain England Kaliningrad vs. vs. vs. vs. Kaliningrad Stadium Nigeria Switzerland Morocco Belgium 2-0 1-2 2-2 0-1 France Iran Poland South Korea Kazan vs. vs vs. vs. Kazan Arena Australia Spain Colombia Germany 2-1 0-1 0-3 2-0 Russia Germany Portugal Denmark Moscow vs. vs. vs. vs. Luzhniki Stadium Saudi Arabia Mexico Morocco France 5-0 0-1 1-0 0-0 Argentina Poland Belgium Serbia Moscow vs. vs. vs. vs. Spartak Stadium Iceland Senegal Tunisia Brazil 1-1 1-2 5-2 0-2 Sweden Argentina England Switzerland Nizhny Novgorod vs. vs. vs. vs. Nizhny Novgorod Stadium South Korea Croatia Panama Costa Rica 1-0 0-3 6-1 2-2 Brazil Uruguay South Korea Iceland Rostov vs. vs. vs. vs. Rostov Arena Switzerland Saudi Arabia Mexico Croatia 1-1 1-0 1-2 1-2 Morocco Russia Brazil Nigeria St Petersburg vs. vs. vs. vs. Krestovsky Stadium Iran Egypt Costa Rica Argentina 0-1 3-1 2-0 1-2 Costa Rica Denmark Uruguay Senegal Samara vs. vs. vs. vs. Cosmos Arena Serbia Australia Russia Colombia 0-1 1-1 3-0 0-1 Peru Colombia Iran Panama Saransk vs. vs. vs. vs. Mordovia Arena Denmark Japan Portugal Tunisia 0-1 1-2 1-1 1-2 Portugal Belgium Germany Australia Sochi vs vs. vs. vs. Fisht Olympic Stadium Spain Panama Sweden Peru 3-3 3-0. 2-1 0-2 Tunisia Nigeria Saudi Arabia Japan Volgograd vs. vs. vs. vs. Volgograd Arena England Iceland Egypt Poland 1-2 2-0 2-1 0-1

GROUP A GROUP B GROUP C GROUP D

P W D L GF GA PT P W D L GF GA PT P W D L GF GA PT P W D L GF GA PT 1. URUGUAY 3 3 0 0 5 0 9 1. SPAIN 3 1 2 0 6 5 5 1. FRANCE 3 2 1 0 3 1 7 1. CROATIA 3 3 0 0 7 1 9 2. RUSSIA 3 2 0 1 8 4 6 2. PORTUGAL 3 1 2 0 5 4 5 2. DENMARK 3 1 2 0 2 1 5 2. ARGENTINA 3 1 1 1 3 5 4 3. SAUDI ARABIA 3 1 0 2 2 7 3 3. IRAN 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 3. PERU 3 1 0 2 2 2 3 3. NIGERIA 3 1 0 2 3 4 3 4. EGYPT 3 0 0 3 2 6 0 4. MOROCCO 3 0 1 2 2 4 1 4. AUSTRALIA 3 0 1 2 2 5 1 4. ICELAND 3 0 1 2 2 5 1

GROUP E GROUP F GROUP G GROUP H

P W D L GF GA PT P W D L GF GA PT P W D L GF GA PT P W D L GF GA PT 1. BRAZIL 3 2 1 0 5 1 7 1. SWEDEN 3 2 0 1 5 2 6 1. BELGIUM 3 3 0 0 9 2 9 1. COLOMBIA 3 2 0 1 5 2 6 2. SWITZERLAND 3 1 2 0 5 4 5 2. MEXICO 3 2 0 1 3 4 6 2. ENGLAND 3 2 0 1 8 3 6 2. JAPAN 3 1 1 1 4 4 4 3. SERBIA 3 1 0 2 2 4 3 3. SOUTH KOREA 3 1 0 2 3 3 3 3. TUNISIA 3 1 0 2 5 8 3 3. SENEGAL 3 1 1 1 4 4 4 4. COSTA RICA 3 0 1 2 2 5 1 4. GERMANY 3 1 0 2 2 4 3 4. PANAMA 3 0 0 3 2 11 0 4. POLAND 3 1 0 2 2 5 3

LAST 16 QUARTERS SEMIFINALS FINAL SEMIFINALS QUARTERS LAST 16

Saturday Sunday FRANCE 4 Sunday SPAIN 1 (3) vs. vs. 30 ARGENTINA 3 1 RUSSIA 1 (4) 4pm Friday 15 Saturday 4pm Kazan Arena FRANCE RUSSIA Luzhniki Stadium vs. 5pm vs. 6 URUGUAY 7 CROATIA Saturday 4pm 8pm Sunday URUGUAY 2 Nizhny Novgorod Stadium Fisht Stadium CROATIA 1 (3) 30 vs. WINNER semi 1 1 vs. PORTUGAL 1 vs. DENMARK 1 (2) 8pm Tuesday Wednesday 8pm Fisht Stadium WINNER 1 WINNER semi 2 WINNER 1 Nizhny Novgorod Stadium vs. vs. 10 WINNER 2 11 WINNER 2 Monday 8pm Luzhniki Stadium 8pm Tuesday BRAZIL 2 Saint Petersburg Stadium Luzhniki Stadium SWEDEN 1 vs. vs. 2 MEXICO 0 3 SWITZERLAND 0 4pm Friday Saturday 4pm Samara Arena BRAZIL SWEDEN Saint Petersburg Stadium vs. 3RD PLACE vs. 6 BELGIUM 7 ENGLAND Monday 8pm Saturday 4pm Tuesday BELGIUM 3 Kazan Arena LOSER semi 1 Samara Arena COLOMBIA 1 (3) vs. vs. vs. 2 JAPAN 2 14 3 ENGLAND 1 (4) 8pm 4pm LOSER semi 2 8pm Rostov Arena Saint Petersburg Stadium Spartak Stadium 66 July 6th to 12th 2018 SPORT SUR IN ENGLISH Spain’s basketballers resounding victors in WC qualifier in Malaga

Fran Vázquez, linked with return to Unicaja, was the star man in a comfortable 80-60 victory against Belarus

Abel Aguilera, after participating in an Ultraman in Australia. :: SUR

JUAN Crossing Loch Ness CALDERÓN  [email protected] for a good cause MALAGA. It was a golden opportunity and he didn’t pass it up. Fran Vázquez, who could be on his way Ronda sportsman Abel that I do is small compared to the back to Unicaja this summer, put on stuggle that some people have to a masterclass on his old patch as Spain Aguilera will swim the go through every day,” he says, ran out 80-60 winners against Bela- legendary 16 kilometres explaining the motto of the rus in the Palacio de los Deportes in in aid of the Andrés event: ‘Together against fear’. Malaga on Sunday. The fundraising is already well Vázquez scored nine points and Olivares Foundation on its way. Aguilera is leading a eight rebounds to finish with a game crowdfunding campaign, shared score of 15, the highest of any Spain :: MARÍA GARCÍA across social medial, to which player in this first-round qualifying RONDA. The mythical Loch Ness anyone can contribute however game for the World Cup in China next will be the latest challenge taken much they like, either by making year. on by Ronda sportsman Abel Aguil- a donation or by buying a t-shirt. “Returning to Malaga would be an era, who will swim the 16-kilome- honour for me because it is the club tre challenge on 5 August. He will A fighter that first gave me my break,” he said. Spain’s players celebrate victory against Belarus on Sunday. :: F. SILVA do so to raise funds for the Andrés Aguilera himself knows what it “I am open to a return.” Olivares Foundation, one of is like to take on cancer, having than 19-15. A three-pointer from Beirán right Malaga’s most active children’s been diagnosed with stage four A strange atmosphere Two three-pointers from Alberto at the start of the final quarter ended cancer charities. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma - news There was a strange atmosphere at Díaz and another from Vicedo, howe- the game as a competition and Spain The athlete, who has previous- which rather than stop him, has the start of the game with half of ver, helped the home side, who were sat back, content with the margin of ly taken on a number of sporting encouraged him to take on extre- the crowd following the national moving the ball around well, to in- their lead with the result never in challenges, including the Lanza- me sporting challenges. The football team’s penalty shootout crease their lead as they went into doubt, 80-60. rote Ironman in 2016 and the Ul- biggest challenge of all, he says, defeat against Russia in the World the break to 38-26. This was Spain’s second victory in traman in Australia last year is “putting yourself to the test”. Cup. However, it didn’t take long In the third quarter, Spain were at the space of a week, having beaten (where he was the only Spanish Aguilera, a cancer survivor, for Sergio Scariolo’s side to assert a far superior level. Vázquez was at Slovenia in Ljubljana 83-72 last Thurs- participant), will now take on a will put his fears to one side as their control on the game and but the centre of everything and Scario- day. Their next round of qualifiers new challenge, made even more he fights to make sure that any for the resistance of Maccabi pivot lo’s men thwarted almost everything will take place between 30 August daunting by his fear of “doing new cancer patient will have Parakhoushi, Spain’s first quarter Belarus threw at them, as they added and 18 September, with the 24 teams sport in very deep water”. more options to overcome the di- lead could have been much greater a mere nine points, 58-37. divided into four groups of six. Despite this, “any challenge sease than previous ones.

Davidovich puts his Wimbledon disappointment quickly behind him

The young tennis star guez, to set up a final against the Despite having been eliminated bounced straight back sensation of the tournament. in the second round of qualifying Having beaten Luis Diego for Wimbledon by veteran Cana- with victory at the Chávez and Tote Domínguez in dian Peter Polansky, Davidovich Malaga Open the quarter and semifinals, respec- believes the experience was posi- tively, Alcaraz won over the hearts tive, one that he can use to develop :: J. CALDERÓN of many on his journey to the fi- his game further: “Every day we MALAGA. Fledgling local tennis nal. suffer a little bit to push ourselves star Alejandro Davidovich put his Despite falling comfortably in to a higher level. Wimbledon disappointment be- the first set, Alcaraz put up a fight “I have climbed a lot of places on hind him as he came out on top in in the second, forcing a tie-breaker the ATP ranking and in a short space the Open Málaga de Tenis Rincón which Davidovich ultimately won. of time I’ve got some of my best re- Dental tournament held at Inacua sults to date.” over the weekend. “On a good run” While it didn’t go exactly to plan Davidovich saw off 15-year-old The win, at a venue he calls his for Davidovich at Wimbledon, Carlos Alcaraz from Murcia in the “second home”, comes during a there was better news for his com- final, 6-2, 6-6 (7-6). “good run” for Davidovich. “I’m in patriot Rafael Nadal who progressed The Malaga talent entered di- the best shape I’ve been in all sea- to the last 32 with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 rectly at the semifinal stage where son. I’m not carrying any injuries win over Mikhail Kukushkin on he triumphed over Pedro Domín- and I feel great,” he told SUR. Thursday. Malaga Open finalists Alcaraz and Davidovich. :: SUR July 6th to 12th 2018 67 SUR IN ENGLISH SPORT The Costa del Golf Tour hits halfway point at Cabopino

:: ALEJANDRO DÍAZ noon”, said the tour’s sporting direc- MALAGA. Almost a hundred ama- tor, Francisco Gómez. teur golfers took to the greens at Ca- The fine state of the facilities at bopino in Marbella on Saturday to Cabopino were applauded by partici- participate in the second leg of the pants who are now looking forward Costa del Golf Tour, organised by SUR to the next stage of the tournament and its publication Costa del Golf. which takes place this Saturday, 7 José María Gil Osorio and Pablo Or- July, at El Paraíso. Those who wish to tega Briesenmester topped the lead- participate can still sign up through erboard in the first and second cate- Oferplan. gories, respectively, while María José Vegas Sillero came out on top among A consolidated tournament the women. The tour, now in its fifth year, has The top six classified players in brought together, across its past edi- each of the three tournaments qual- tions, almost a thousand amateur ify directly for the grand final to be players in its men’s and women’s cate- contested at the Real Club de Gua- gories. Following each game day, a dalmina. In the first category (along- prizegiving ceremony and raffle takes side Gil Osorio) Eduardo Delgado Ro- place - a factor which has helped the jas, José Antonio Benítez Domínguez, Costa del Golf Tour to become a well Francisco Javier López Mesa, Chris- established tournament on the ama- tian Far Boggiano and José Ramón teur circuit. Feito Feito also booked their spots in On Saturday, SUR’s commercial di- the final. In the second category, Ju- rector, Jorge Artero; its director of lián Zurita Gadea, Juan Carlos López new business, Federico Moret; com- Grau, Sergio Orovio Borrego, Jorge mercial delegate in Marbella, Lean- Alonso Lopera and Jesús Podadera dro Rodríguez; external relations Guerrero also qualified. head, Pilar Perea; and marketing chief, In the women’s category, Patricia Pilar AlAlcalá, were all in attendance for V. Thiele Rico, Ana Isabelel IrmiaIrmia the prizprizegiving. Diéguez, María dell Car- AlAlso present were Da men Noguerouero BrunBruno group owner, Aguililla, Mercedesedes BruBruno Filippone, Espiñeira Bañue-ue- and head of mar- los and Carolinaina ketketing and qual- Pérez-Estradaada ity at the Mar- Cornejo willl be cocoss 1942 jewel- joining thoseose lelers,r Esther already quali-ali- RuRuiz. Both fied for the finalinal bubusinesses from the first llegeg sposponsor the already contestedsted toutour, as do Acosol at Alcaidesa. anandd the Junta de The day, sponsoredored AnAndalucía.d Other col- by the Da Bruno res-es- lablaborators include the taurant group, “was four host courses, An- accompanied by a light A light breeze dalucía Golf Select, breeze throughout the accompanied play at Copyrap, Golfriends morning and after- Cabopino. :: JOSELE-LANZA and FC&CO. 68 July 6th to 12th 2018 SPORT SUR IN ENGLISH Malaga CF to take on Nottingham Forest in first preseason friendly

The club has announced PREPARATION a series of friendlies, but this ap- the first series of friendly pears to have been cancelled or, at least, delayed. games, all to be played in Return. Medical examinations Malaga province, starting will take place on Friday before pla- A busy week ahead with the English side a yers return to the field on Monday. While there has been progress on Santos, during his loan spell at Sporting Gijón last season. :: D. ARIENZA the footballing front, there is little week on Monday Monday 16th. Nottingham For- to report on in terms of transfer busi- est, at the Marbella Football Center. ness. Barring the players whose con- :: ANTONIO GÓNGORA tracts came to an end (Chory Cas- Exit of Michael Santos MALAGA. Movement may be slow, Saturday 4 August. Antequera, tro, Samu, Adalberto Peñaranada, but things are showing signs of com- at El Maulí. Zdravko Kuzmanovic, Roberto, ing together behind the scenes at Maxime Lestienne, Borja Bastón, Al- could be the key to Malaga CF as a busy week approaches. Wednesday 8 August. Mallorca, berto Bueno, Diego Rolán, Isaac Suc- With the players expected to re- at the Marbella municipal stadium. cess and Brown Ideye), only Jony Malaga’s transfer plans turn from their summer holidays for and Emanuel Cecchini have left a series of medical tests today, Friday, Saturday 11 August. Trofeo (both on loan) and not a single player the club announced a number of pre- Costa del Sol, opponents not yet has been brought in. season friendlies on Monday. confirmed. This, however, is expected to The forward is looking for side on loan now that Malaga have The first will see the Blue and change within the next week after a move and his transfer been relegated. Whites take on English Champion- Muñiz and sporting director José His departure could come as a ship side Nottingham Forest at the season to take place on home soil. Luis Caminero met on Wednesday fee could ensure that blessing for Malaga who, if freed Marbella Football Center on 16 July The initial plan was to head to cen- to make decisions over deals that are Miquel and En-Nesyri of his inflated wages (he didn’t have - the only friendly so far confirmed tral Europe for a training camp and near to completion. remain at La Rosaleda a clause inserted in his contract this month. that would see his wages halved in There will be further fixtures the event of relegation), wouldn’t against Antequera, at their home :: SERGIO CORTÉS then be obliged to cash in on star ground El Maulí on 4 August; Mal- MALAGA. Despite head coach players Ignasi Miquel and Youssef lorca will be the opposition at the Juan Ramón Muñiz stating his de- En-Nesyri. Marbella municipal stadium on 8 sire to keep hold of forward Mi- However, whether Santos leaves August; and on 11 August, the ‘new chael Santos, the exit of the Uru- or not, strengthening the frontline Malaga’ will be presented to fans guayan looks all the more likely af- remains a priority for Malaga. Last for the first time at the Trofeo Costa ter a number of La Liga sides, as week, SUR reported that veteran del Sol. The opposition for the lat- well as FC Copenhagen, expressed strikers Jorge Molina and Rubén Cas- ter has not yet been confirmed, nor an interest. tro were on the wishlist. Now, it is have kickoff times for any of the The forward, who scored 17 understood that former Liverpool games. goals during a loan spell with and Norwich forward, Dani Pacheco This delay in scheduling can be Sporting Gijón last season, has a (currently Molina’s teammate at put down to new coach Juan Ramón release clause in his contract Getafe) and Leganés’ Mamadou Muñiz deciding that he wanted pre- Preseason training gets under way on Monday. :: SUR which allows him to join a La Liga Koné are also under consideration.

:: LA CALA RESORT GERRARD’S Newly-appointed Rangers manager, Steven Gerrard, brought his new team to La Cala Resort in Mijas for a ten-day training camp in preparation RANGERS HEAD for the start of the new Scottish Premiership season and the Glasgow FOR THE COSTA side’s upcoming Europa League clash against FK Shkupi. Gerrard met La Cala Resort director Sean Corte-Real (inset) and praised the facilities. July 6th to 12th 2018 69 SUR IN ENGLISH

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greeted her with a kiss without real- ising that it would cause havoc in her Leila Hatami, the Iranian actress who own country and quickly be reported in the international media. There was such an outcry that he felt obliged to intervene on her behalf and “take the escaped a flogging, films in Marbella blame” by saying it was he who had kissed her, and that he was not greeting her as a woman but as the representative of the Iranian film indus- The star of the Oscar-winning A Separation was reported to the Iranian authorities try. It made no difference whatsoever for greeting the Cannes Festival director with a kiss on the cheek to those who claimed that Leila Hatami had “injured Iran’s feelings” by failing to obey the law that bans The actress is on the physical contact with men who are Costa del Sol filming a not family members. drama by Alireza Raisian Favourite actress about a woman who In the face of these accusations, the travels to Spain and finds actress published a letter apologising to anyone who had been offended, it changes her life but at the same time she said it was a “shame” that she had to give these :: FRANCISCO GRIÑÁN explanations. Her case aroused con- MALAGA. We were told that an Ira- siderable interest in the international nian production team was in Malaga, media, who issued warnings about shooting a new film with a well- these chauvinistic attitudes and the known actress from that country, but risk of regression in Iran. Maybe it then we discovered there was more was that, or maybe for another rea- to it than that. The actress is Leila son, but Hatami was lucky. Nothing Hatami, one of the few Iranians to be more was ever said about flogging her a member of the Hollywood Acad- because of one polite kiss. emy and the star of the first Iranian Four years on, the Iranian star is production to win an Oscar for a for- in Malaga filming a movie (the title eign film, A Separation (2011). could be translated as One Lone Man), This week she has been filming directed and produced by Alireza with Malaga actress Elena Martínez Leila Hatami. :: SUR Martínez and Hatami (both seated) on the film set in Marbella :: J-LANZA Raisian. She is his favourite actress, on the seafront in Marbella, far from and this time she plays the part of a her home country where she is al- became embroiled in controversy and val, Gilles Jacob. Some groups in Iran her to be flogged in public. woman who travels to Spain on busi- ways a box office success and her fans was denounced by extremists in Iran were incensed by that photo and they The scenario occurred when ness. It is the first time her character follow her every move. However that for giving a chaste kiss on the cheek demanded that she be punished and Hatami was on the judging panel at has ever visited the country, and it once worked against her: in 2014 she to the director of the Cannes Festi- an example made of her: they wanted the Cannes Festival. The director changes her life.