Costa Attracts Half the Foreign Investment Coming to Andalucía

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Mercedes-Benz chooses Marbella for global Costa attracts half the foreign launch of new model, impressed by congress investment coming to Andalucía centre improvements P3 Almeria’s underground jewel goes on display. The A report says that 60 per cent of firms The province of Malaga, including study. In optimistic findings, it shows the Costa del Sol, received 51 per cent foreign investors are attracted by good giant geode of Pulpí with its with foreign capital in Malaga province are of foreign money that came into the communications, including the air- enormous crystals opened Andalucía region in 2017, according port, but they least like energy costs, to visitors this week P32-33 expecting to invest more here this year to a high-profile inward investment taxes and regulations. P2-3

Response to Triple A appeal saves shelter from closure The animal association has been inundated with donations since it aired its financial crisis P6 22222222 August 9th to 15th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Fifty per cent of foreign investment in Andalucía comes to the Costa area, report says

HOW FOREIGN COMPANY’S TURNOVER EVOLVED (%) WHAT ATTACTS INVESTORS TO MALAGA PROVINCE

70% 64.3 Criteria most highly valued by companies who took part in the survey Score out of 5 60.7 NURIA 60% Airport 4.71 TRIGUERO 57.1 High Speed Train 4.09 Increased  [email protected] Port 3.95 50% Reduced Leisure and culture 3.76 A survey of companies No change Availability of infrastructure and telecommunications services 3.72 40% Security 3.57 based in Malaga province Roads 3.51 with foreign capital reveals 30% Logistics centres 3.47 Availability of unqualified labour 3.44 an optimistic attitude: 23.2 21.4 21.4 21.4 Scientific and technology parks 3.44 20% about 60 per cent expect Availability and quality of supply networks 3.41 14.3 16.1 their investment to Capacity for learning 3.30 increase this year 10% Availability of researchers 3.30 Cost of living 3.28 0% Access to foreign markets 3.26 2017 2018 2019 MALAGA. The Costa del Sol is not Cost of unqualified labour 3.24 only the favourite destination for Availability of qualified workers 3.21 tourists who come to Andalucía, but CHANGE IN INVESTMENT BY FOREIGN ENTITIES (%) Quality of business colleges 3.20 for entrepreneurs and investors as Railway freight services 3.13 well. The province of Malaga received 51 per cent of foreign investment into Increased 60% the region in 2017, which was 0.84 Reduced 57.1 55.4 No change per cent of the total in Spain. This is 51.8 according to the second annual re- 50% WHAT THEY SEE AS THE DOWNSIDE port on the business climate in Malaga province, drawn up by the Ciedes 40% 39.3 Criteria least valued by companies which took part in the survey Score out of 5 Foundation and Malaga city council’s 35.7 Cost of electricity 1.96 inward investment office. 32.1 Other energy costs: diesel, etc. 2.07 30% Malaga and the Costa’s slice of the Speed and efficiency of commercial courts 2.08 Andalusian foreign-investment cake Availability of subsidies 2.27 grew considerably compared with 20% Costs of adapting to different regional and local regulations 2.31 Lines of public funding 2.37 the previous year (31 per cent). Gross 21.5 10.7 foreign investment increased by 38 10% Company tax 2.39 per cent compared with 2016, to 205 5.4 IVA (VAT) and special taxes 2.41 Telephone and Internet costs 2.41 million euros, while in Andalucía as 0% a whole it reduced slightly. 2017 2018 2019 Bureaucracy involved in the functioning of the company 2.43 Analysis of investment value held Social Security payments for employees 2.48 in the province, (rather than what Transport 2.50 comes in and out over time), shows STAFF ACCORDING TO THE COMPANIES IN 2019 (%) Industrial land 2.52 that Malaga was the province in the Language skills 2.52 region with the highest growth be- Increased Reduced No change Cost of adapting to environmental regulations 2,53 tween 2013 and 2016, at more than Office rent 2.56 Incentives and assistance for contracting 2.60 64.7 per cent, compared with 34.1 per Over 500 60 20 20 cent for Andalucía. Taxes on non-residents 2.64 This and other data is included in Size of the local market in Malaga 2.65 the report, which the mayor of 251 - 500 17 33 50 Legislation regarding competition 2.66 Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, said is the only one of its type carried out 51 - 250 38 24 38 by a Spanish city. It studies different ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT statistical sources as well as the results of a survey which was sent to 10 - 50 47 6 47 Criteria considered important which received low scores 150 local-based companies with for- Language skills eign capital and 50 entities and indi- 1 - 9 40 10 50 Electricity costs viduals who work with this type of Availability of international schools company. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Quality of business colleges One of the most relevant aspects Acceptance of responsbilities and objectives Source: Fundación Ciedes August 9th to 15th 2019 3 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS of the report is the companies’ ex- New boss of pectations regarding turnover, investment and job creation. Mª Car- Malaga Airport men García Peña, the head of Cie- des, says this is generally positive, shows confidence especially among the larger com- in future routes panies with foreign capital. About 60 per cent of those with over 500 and investment employees expect to take on more workers this year, while 20 per cent think levels will stay the same :: PILAR MARTÍNEZ and 20 per cent expect to reduce MALAGA. Speaking at the busi- them. est time of year for plane activ- The perspectives for turnover ity, the new director of Malaga and investment are also good. Just Airport has been explaining more over 60 per cent of the companies about his plans. expect their volume of business At a working breakfast with to increase this year, and that is journalists last week, just a month more than last year. With regard into the job, Pedro Bendala an- to investment, 57 per cent believe nounced that the forecasted in- it will increase. The major compa- vestment budget for next year at nies are the most optimistic, as 80 the airport will be 38 million per cent expect to see an increase euros, with the focus on making this year. the terminals more environmen- tally friendly. “Aena [the airport Evaluation operator] has made the promise Foreign companies gave Malaga Inside the congress centre, the venue chosen for Mercedes’ November unveiling. :: JOSELE of becoming carbon neutral, so province a score of 2.94 (out of we have to reduce our emissions five) in overall terms, which was and those of the 300 companies slightly lower than the previous working at the airport.” 3.14, but García Peña explains that Mercedes is latest luxury car brand Speaking about the airport’s this is due more to a change in the future growth, he said that “the questions asked in the survey sky is the limit” and that a mas- (there were more aspects to score) to arrange global launch in Marbella ter plan is needed “to activate in- than a worsening opinion of the vestment when the need arises”. city. The factors most highly val- Bendala also commented on ued by the companies when de- the increase in longer-distance ciding on Malaga and the Costa Improvements to the night stays in three to five star ho- into securing the Mercedes deal and routes operating this summer sea- were infrastructure, quality of life, Palacio de Congresos are tels, attract invited guests from 24 beating the competition. She ex- son. “Every day a year-round flight innovation and human resources. countries and bring together 400 plained that the worldwide image between Malaga and New York The downsides were costs, the being hailed as a reason journalists, bloggers, influencers. of Marbella as a luxury destination gets closer,” he said, adding that regulatory environment and tax. for attracting the As well as the extra business in and recent renovations costing the growth in connectivity to the The investing companies were November event, which low season for hoteliers, the activ- 400,000 euros at the congress cen- Middle East was also important. clear that the area’s strengths lie ity generated for other sectors of tre had helped to win the contract. in the airport and high-speed train comes after Audi visited the tourism industry will be signifi- By the time the event is held in service, followed by the port, lei- earlier this year cant. The Marbella Palacio de Con- November, an expanded parking sure facilities and culture. The gresos convention centre will earn area on land next door will be open weaknesses are seen as energy :: NIEVES CASTRO 60,000 euros for hiring out its space. and the centre will have one of the costs, slowness of commercial MARBELLA. Mercedes-Benz has The Mayor of Marbella, Ángeles largest murals in the world on the courts and subsidy availability. chosen Marbella for the global launch Muñoz, this week highlighted the outside, by artist Curro Leyton. When asked how Malaga could of its latest car model. The German behind-the-scenes work that went Muñoz said, “All this work helps improve, the majority said the luxury-car giant will unveil its new turn Marbella into a sought-after lack of language skills is a handi- creation to important customers destination for congress tourism.” cap for a province which has been and motor-trade media at the town’s The Mercedes event comes after making a living from tourism for congress centre in November. As well as extra business the international launch of an Audi over 50 years. Next came elec- The numbers speak for them- model earlier this year that saw 3,200 tricity costs, availability of inter- selves about the importance of this in low season for guests from 120 countries. The coun- national schools, quality of busi- motor event for Marbella that will hoteliers, activity in other cil estimates that Audi brought in an ness colleges, acceptance of re- be held over 20 days, from 5 to 25 parts of the industry will extra 7.5 million euros to Marbella. sponsibilities and objectives by November. According to Mercedes, Like Audi, the Mercedes event isn’t workers and other energy costs. the show will generate 2,800 over- also be significant expected to be open to the public. Pedro Bendala. :: M.F. 4 August 9th to 15th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Serbian holds knife to flatmate’s Private-hire driver arrested for ‘inventing’ kidnap tale after throat on balcony in Manilva spending earnings on sex

The victim was dressed in Police believe the Despite originally believing the underwear, his eyes were private-hire vehicle driver’s tale and arresting the accused, police became suspicious blindfolded and his chest driver spent a total of when interviews with workers at was stained with blood 1,800 euros during the the club and the taxi driver, who 15 hours at the brothel had driven the two companions to :: CHARO MÁRQUEZ sell the motorbike, offered a very MANILVA. A Serbian man shocked different version of the story. Wit- residents and tourists in La Duquesa :: JUAN CANO nesses said that the driver had not in Manilva on Wednesday 31 July MALAGA. A private-hire vehicle been forced to act against his will when he was witnessed threaten- driver has been arrested and at any point during the night. ing a bleeding and semi-naked man charged with filing a false report The driver has since been arrested with a knife on a balcony. The rapid of a kidnapping, reportedly con- over fabricating the crime. Investi- intervention of the local police en- cocted to hide the truth behind a gators believe that, having taken sured his arrest before any further night of drugs and orgies. the company earnings himself and harm could be done. The driver had reported the sup- having spent them at the brothel The incident occurred when peo- posed kidnapping at Fuengirola po- with his companion, who he was ple walking along the port spot- lice station, accusing a client of rob- already acquainted with before the ted the man holding another pris- bing him of his company’s earnings event, the driver reported his com- oner on a balcony, while he threat- at knife-point, before taking him panion and invented the tale in an ened him with a large knife. The Police attempted to calm down the aggressor from below. :: SUR to a local brothel, where he had been attempt to explain the missing victim was dressed in underwear, held against his will and forced to money and his absence that day. his eyes were blindfolded and his situation, fled the scene in fear on the head, which had produced take drugs. Police estimate that a total of chest was stained with blood. that she too would be harmed. the blood stains down his body and The alarming details did not stop 1,800 euros was spent by the driver Local officers arrived quickly at While local police officers con- needed at least 11 stitches. there; the driver reported that once on sex and drugs during the 15 the scene and attempted to calm versed with the aggressor from the An investigation into the inci- all of the money had been spent on hours at the brothel. According to down the aggressor from below, street, another two officers asked dent is under way, although eve- prostitutes, the client forced him the testimony of the taxi driver while he continued to threaten for cooperation from his wife, who rything currently points towards to travel by taxi to a friend’s house who drove the two companions to the victim and brandish the was able to enter the flat again jealousy as the motive, since the where he was to sell a motorbike. the house where they sold the mo- weapon. Tourists and residents through a window and open the three were sharing the flat. The money earned was then spent torbike, the sale amounted to 1,050 watched from the street, door. Officers could then enter the The Mayor of Manilva, Mario on further revelry at the brothel. euros. The reveller also allegedly astonished. flat and apprehend the aggressor, Jiménez, has since praised the of- The driver accused the client of then took another 600 euros he had in The aggressor shared the flat who did not resist arrest. ficers involved for their “profes- keeping him hostage in a storage his pocket, and spent a further 100 with his wife and the victim. His The victim, also of Serbian ori- sionalism and bravery” and for room for several hours when the euros on the night, taken from wife, realising the danger of the gin, had suffered a significant cut avoiding further harm. night came to an end. tips earned in his vehicle.

ing from the house. Smokers’ club ing the dealing of marijuana and Woman on trial for causing Upon entering the residence, of- hash. A 19-year-old Irish-born man, ficers discovered the chihuahua dead closed down and who had been in charge of the death of chihuahua in Malaga on the sofa, and the other dog to be premises, has been arrested. “in a terrible state”, surrounded by manager arrested, Police who searched the club filth. The probable cause of death was suspected of drug seized 885 grams of hashish, 701 :: SUR woman left the chihuahua and an- “the malnutrition and dehydration grams of marijuana, various tools MALAGA. A woman, charged with other mixed-breed dog in her locked caused by the accused, who, know- dealing used for the sale and consumption causing the death of a chihuahua, will house in Alhaurín el Grande, “with- ing that the animals were in the of drugs, and around 550 euros in appear in court on 28 October. The out food, water, ventilation or even house, left them in those conditions”. cash. public prosecutor’s office is calling sunlight”. In addition to the possible 12- :: SUR The premises had in fact been for a 12-month prison sentence for It was the woman’s neighbour who month prison sentence, the prosecu- FUENGIROLA. National and Lo- shut down before and the club had the accused. alerted officers in January 2016, af- tor is calling for a three-year ban on cal Police have closed down a smok- been registered as a non-profit as- The alleged crime took place over ter hearing constant barking and the woman working with or owning ers’ club in the Fuengirola area, sociation. Judicial proceedings are the Christmas of 2015, when the smelling an unpleasant odour com- animals. which had allegedly been facilitat- now under way. August 9th to 15th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 5 6 August 9th to 15th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Triple A avoids having to close animal shelter after an influx of new members, donations and materials

NIEVES CASTRO

 [email protected] The Amigos de los Animales Abandonados association hopes the collaboration will continue to guarantee its survival in the long term

MARBELLA. Triple A will not have to close down after all. The animal rescue association has seen an influx of new members, donations and necessary materials after the call for help published in the SUR newspapers a couple of weeks ago, warning Abandoned dogs at the Triple A shelter on the Ojén road. :: JOSELE Last month’s meeting with the mayor. :: SUR that it would not be able to continue unless it could raise the 50,000 euros This wave of support has been plan of what it needs and in Septem- town of Marbella,” said Jan Weima. se for their first shelter, all the sub- it needed to continue providing this like a blast of oxygen which will al- ber we will meet again to study its The Triple A premises are more sequent councils have collaborated important service in Marbella. low them to pay their bills and carry viability and work out a project,” than 70 years old and need urgent in different ways. The association, whose full name on, but the management board at said Lisandro Vieytes, who is an ad- work, including plumbing and dra- In the last term of office the tri- is Amigos de los Animales Abandona- Triple A also pointed out that their visor on sanitation and was also at inage. Marbella council already con- partite government surfaced the road dos, says it has received sanitary ma- monthly costs amount to 35,000 the meeting. tributes 60,000 euros a year, which leading to the shelter and the pre- terials, food, cleaning products, euros, 40 per cent of which is for “We are confident that the coun- the association wants it to increa- sent council has provided use of ad- around 70 new members, sponsors, wages. This is why they want the cil will work hard to help us to crea- se. In fact, ever since Jesús Gil gave joining land, which is used to walk donations and innumerable mes- level of collaboration to continue, te a shelter which is suitable for the them use of the old slaughterhou- the dogs. sages of support and interest in the to ensure that the association can situation from individuals, compa- survive and provide a shelter for nies and other associations, both abandoned animals in the area. The Spanish and foreign. Triple A’s sec- Triple A shelter is on the Carretera retary Jan Weima said this week that de Ojén. MARBELLA 12KM they even received a donation of 15 The association has also set its euros from Tokyo. sights on a new line of collaboration TRAFFIC CHAOS “We are completely overwhelmed with Marbella council, which it ho- by the response; it has been incredi- pes will come into being in the next AS LORRY SHEDS ble. We can’t thank everyone few months. If it does, it will be able LOAD ON ROAD enough. Luckily, we have been saved. to update the facilities at the shel- This has enabled us to balance our ter, with the priority being impro- accounts, because after 29 years ved plumbing and infrastructure. The trailer of a lorry over- working in this area, we don’t want The board has already held a long turned on the A-7 motorway to be seen as an association that meeting at the shelter with the ma- around Marbella on Thursday doesn’t pay,” he said. yor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, morning, causing major head- and the councillor for Works, Die- aches for motorists with up to go López, after sending out their 12 kilometres of tailbacks. The calls for help. traffic backlog wasn’t cleared They say the money until well into the afternoon. received is like “a blast of Urgent works are needed The lorry’s load blocked two Triple A and Marbella council have of the three carriageways oxygen” but point out both confirmed that the meeting westbound and at one time that their monthly costs laid down the groundwork for a pro- the queues stretched as far gramme to improve the facilities and back as the Elviria areas from amount to 35,000 euros make them more practical. near the bus station. :: JOSELE “The association will draw up a August 9th to 15th 2019 7 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Home of corrupt ex-planning boss sold by court with him still living inside

Juan Antonio Roca has complained that he doesn’t want to be the only one involved in the Marbella scandals to be stripped of his multi- million-euro assets The site is this sports complex near Nueva Andalucía. :: JOSELE

:: NIEVES CASTRO MARBELLA. A luxury apartment, one of the homes of Marbella’s jailed Major new pool for Marbella former town-planning boss has finally been sold by the court. for use for competitive events The 535-square-metre single-floor property is between Avenida Ricardo Soriano and the Paseo Marítimo. It :: NIEVES CASTRO of Nueva Andalucía, that will also was one of the many high-value as- MARBELLA. Sports clubs and be used for national level com- sets frozen as now-released Juan An- swimming competitors in Mar- petition. tonio Roca was sent to jail in the in- The luxury apartment building in central Marbella. :: JOSELE bella look set to get what they most The cost is estimated at eight famous corruption scandals that need at last: a place for high-level million euros and the pool will rocked the resort over ten years ago. been made aware that they could funds from the town hall, it has training and pool competitions need to be 24 metres long and 34 The eight-bedroom property was not take immediate possession be- emerged that Roca has complained within the municipality. metres wide, with a moving par- put on sale on a court-supervised cause of the high-profile occupant, to a court in Madrid. His lawyers told When the plan for the facility tition to divide the space so differ- website for 2.6 million euros but in and would have to have signed a the court that heard the ‘Saqueo II’ is carried out, almost 1,000 sports- ent activities can use the pool at the end has gone for 1.8 million. rental contract with the Rocas while part of the trials that it is not fair men and women can stop using the same time. The floor of the However the sale comes with a pos- he lived there. It’s not known what that he is being targeted for his as- crowded public pools where they pool will be marked out for water- sible catch as, despite having been the conditions of the final sale are. sets (in this case alone he was or- are only allocated limited hours polo competitions. found guilty, sent to jail, and still dered to pay back 37 million euros). to train. As an example of the current dif- owing tens of millions in defrauded Not the only one He told the court that it would do Marbella town hall has started ficulties faced by sports teams, Club money to Marbella town hall, Juan In other developments in the after- well to investigate more thoroughly a tender process to draw up and Waterpolo Marbella, that plays in Antonio Roca and his family are still math of the sentences of Roca and assets of others culprits such as for- supervise plans for a swimming national competitions, has to use living inside the luxury property. the many officials, politicians and mer mayor Julián Muñoz, as well as pool facility in the Polideportivo a pool in Fuengirola instead for its Previous interested buyers have business people who embezzled the heirs of former mayor, Jesús Gil. Guadaiza, on the San Pedro side home games and training. August 9th to 15th 2019 8 SUR IN ENGLISH August 9th to 15th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 9 10 August 9th to 15th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

From plastic bags to piping for irrigation

IGNACIO LILLO

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EARTH MATTERS Replasur uses a thousand tonnes of material provided by industrial launderettes and packaging companies for its products every year

MALAGA. Plastic, above all when used for shopping bags, has lately become the environment’s public enemy number one. Ecologists and governments alike have turned their focus to the control of plastic distribution, with negative consequences for marine life at the forefront of Huge bundles of used their minds. However, companies plastic arrive at the factory. that make the most of the positive :: MIGUE FERNÁNDEZ side to this supposedly damned product also exist. This is the case for Malaga-based Replasur, a company founded almost 40 years ago, dedicated to using recycled plastic for the production of kilometres of piping for countryside irrigation. The Replasur plant on the Santa Teresa industrial estate stamps out the circulation of a thousand tonnes of this material every year. “Everybody is against the plastic bag, but we cannot deny that it is an economic and technologically important product, which creates jobs and is not to blame for the way in which we mistreat it and throw it to the sea. It is us who use it badly.” José Luis Delgado, owner of Replasur, defends the raw material, follow-  Raw material. A worker collects plastic ground ing a life dedicated to reuse in one phase of the process. :: MIGUE FERNÁNDEZ within the plastic industry, having been in charge of  ‘Lentils’. Polythene is the raw various factories for al- material used to mould the irrigation most half a century. piping. :: MIGUE FERNÁNDEZ According to Del- gado, the business has its origins in a time of plastic shortage. One of his first businesses was a packaging factory, back in Franco’s era. “Supplies of the raw material were running low, so I started this company to gather resources.” For decades Delgado produced bottles and containers for oil companies and bleach  Pieces. The com- factories, opening plants in Granada pany makes other com- and Seville, both sold years ago. In ponents necessary for ir- the end, there were two businesses: rigation. :: M. FERNÁNDEZ one dedicated to recycling and the other to the production of piping for irrigation. In order to work, the company The result. Irrigation mainly uses plastic bags, film and piping ready for agricultural packaging from factories. The easi-  Just made. A worker winds up the tube in the distribution. est thing would be to obtain these machine. :: MIGUE FERNÁNDEZ :: MIGUE FERNÁNDEZ from town rubbish tips, which of course have the largest deposits. However, the veteran business August 9th to 15th 2019 11 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS

THE PROCESS Bottle caps recycled Purchase of raw material and for a good cause classification owner criticises how these facilities Launderettes provide the mate- a machine which converts the raw The company buys and whom Replasur regularly pur- are controlled by the company Eco- rial. Upon arrival, it is classified material into little black pieces: re- chases plastic caps gathered from embes, which has monopolised the in order to get rid of any impuri- cycled polythene. recycles plastic bottle collection points, rubbish bins industry. “Plastic has a value, and ties. Shopping bags, packaging These are then introduced to a caps gathered from and skips. Funds go towards so- the economy comes before the en- and bags for clothes are all use- chain of automatic production which skips and collection cial causes and families who vironment,” says Delgado. ful, but bottles are not used. moulds millions of kilometres of ir- struggle economically. As a result, Replasur has created rigation piping for the countryside, points and all funds go Owner of the company, José its own network for obtaining the Washed, dried and with different diameters and pres- towards social causes Luis Delgado, explains how this raw material and the company has ground sure capacities. In order to save wa- material, which has many spe- agreements with industrial launder- ter, the company has already incor- :: I. LILLO cial characteristics, is recycled ettes, which use thousands of large The raw material is washed, porated a dropper with a flow of 2.5 MALAGA. Most people have and sold. plastic bags for clothes from hotels dried and ground with different litres per minute into one of its prod- wondered whether the plastic Once washed, ground and re- across the provincial capital and Costa machinery until the plastic is ucts. The company distributes all the bottle caps gathered at collection cycled, the raw material is sold del Sol. The company also receives broken down to flakes. necessary components for agricul- points in offices and schools do to another manufacturer, and it regular contributions from packag- tural work, and even the necessary indeed haveave an eco- is transformed into plas- ing businesses, committed to the col- Obtaining of recycled technology for long-distance man- nomic value.lue. The tic boxes used for lection and sale of these materials. polythene agement, with applications for pro- answer is yes. the bubulk distribu- gramming and activating the irriga- In the Re- tion and trans- Recycled polythene Another machine transforms tion system from a mobile. It also of- plasur officeice poport of fruit The number of people working at the result into small, black, fers advice on farm production plans. on thee to markets. the plant fluctuates between ten and lentil-shaped pieces: recycled Sales depend on the season and Santaa “We do fifteen people, depending on the polythene. weather, and vary according to Teresa in- not profit workload, and runs 24 hours a day. droughts or the abundance of water. dustrial from this, The process starts with the classifi- Piping and pieces for The company, the only one of its estate, but we cation and cleaning of the huge bun- countryside irrigation kind in Malaga, also has a third side there are cover the dles of plastic, made up of shopping to it: the production of caps for bot- photocop- expenses, bags, bags for clothes, sacks and all The polythene is moulded into tles. It currently distributes to the ies of thee aand so help kinds of packaging. Interestingly, irrigation piping of different di- whole of Andalucía and Morocco. identityy pepeople who packaging such as bottles is never ameters, sizes and pressures. “Our work is of great social value be- documentss of Plastic caps. neeneed it.” used. Some piping comes equipped cause we clear a lot of plastic waste; some 50 indi- :: M. FERNÁNDEZ BeBecause of The plastic is classified in order with droppers to save water. look at how rubbish can be trans- viduals. Almost this, the company to remove parts which are not use- Components are sold in Anda- formed,” José Luis Delgado, concludes, all of these peoplepeople are only purchpurchases caps ful, before it is ground, washed, cen- lucía and Morocco. suggesting a more positive way of representativesatives of NGOs from people oor entities trifuged and dried. It later passes to looking at the notorious plastic bag. from the Malaga province, from with an accredited social cause. 12 August 9th to 15th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

and had failed to put up warning Julen’s parents demand a jail sentence of signs about the presence of the hole that Julen fell down, prompt- ing a massive rescue operation. three years and six months for landowner They have also criticised Serrano’s behaviour following the accident, saying that not only has he never apologised to them but he has tried The couple, who are to blame them for not looking after bringing a private their child properly. They were also angry when his lawyers produced a prosecution against the report claiming that Julen could owner of the land where have been killed not by the fall, but their son died, claim he by a pick used during the 13-day at- has never apologised tempts to rescue him. Revenge, says defence :: JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO David Serrano’s lawyers, however, FRÍAS say they are very surprised by the MALAGA. Julen Roselló’s parents parents’ demand for a jail sentence have filed a written indictment as of three years and six months. An- part of the private prosecution tonio Flores, of Lawbird Legal Serv- against David Serrano, the owner of ices, said this appears to be a wish the land in Totalán on which their for personal revenge, and points out two-year-old son died when he that the parents themselves had pre- fell down a borehole inn Janu-Janu- viously described the death of their ary. They are asking forr the son as an accident. court to sentence himm to The defence lawyers reject the three and a half years in parents’ claim that David Serrano jail for manslaughterer was responsible for covering the through negligence. hole, saying that this was the re- This would be a sponsibility of the building com- longer sentence than José and Victoria, Julen’s parents. :: MIGUE FERNÁNDEZ pany that was carrying out the that requested by the works, and that the parents had public prosecution,, ggested length of sentence. Julen’s parents believe David been “indisputably and repeatedly whose provisional con-- The couple’s lawyer, An- Serrano was “extremely negligent” warned” about the presence of the clusions about the casee toniato Barba, says that in cases and claim he had contravened hole by Serrano, the owner of the were that Serrano shoulduld of negligence there are no safety regulations when having land. They also say Serrano has said be jailed for three yearsrs if fixedfixe sentences and the judges the 70-metre borehole drilled on “a thousand times” how sorry he is found guilty. The writtenen in- and courtsc can decide on these his land in search of water. They for what had happened, and that dictment by the parentss agreesagrees David Serrano, the owner of arbitrarilyarbitra after considering the also say he had not obtained parents have a duty of “culpa in vigi- with all the prosecution’sn’s conclu- the land, in a file photo. personal circumstances, the sever- authorisation for the containing lando” (responsibility to look after sions, and differs only in the sug- :: SALVADOR SALAS ity of theth events and the results. wall he was building on the site, their children).

Costa del Sol placed on amber warning as temperatures rise above 39 degrees

Temperatures today (Friday) could beat Malaga’s August record of 44 degrees, documented in 1953

:: IGNACIO LILLO MALAGA. The Spanish weather agency Aemet has placed Malaga, the Costa del Sol and Valle del Guadal- horce areas on amber warning, as today’s temperatures (Friday) look to rise above 39ºC. After thermometers hit more than 40 degrees on Wednesday, residents and visitors along the Costa del Sol enjoyed a little relief on Thursday, with its predicted highs of around 34 degrees. The heat is not due to be so kind today, however, and meteorolo- gists are following the relentless hot weather with an eagle eye, as a new record in the capital could be set; Malaga’s highest temperature recorded in the month of August was 44 degrees on 9 August, 1953. Wednesday’s sweltering tempera- Relief from the heat at La Misericordia water park. :: MIGUE FERNÁNDEZ tures were this summer’s fiercest taste so far of the Terral, the warm grees on 15 July. The heat was less in- The most serious incident caused wind that picks up heat as it travels tense in the east of Malaga. by the heat was a forest fire which overland. Temperatures of 40 degrees The high temperatures on Wednes- started in the area of Lomas de San were recorded at both the airport and day led Malaga town hall to partially Antón. Firefighters were able to bring Aemet’s headquarters, breaking this activate the municipal emergency the flames under control within a summer’s previous record of 39.1 de- plan from 12 noon to 10pm. few hours. August 9th to 15th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 13 14 August 9th to 15th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Self-defence sessions help women overcome fear of vulnerable situations

The workshops are free Concordia is running a series and led by Concordia of free workshops on personal defence at the Novagym in Alhaurín Márquez, an expert in el Grande twice a week. She martial arts who says quotes Mahatma Gandhi to ex- strength comes from plain the philosophy behind these sessions. “Strength isn’t a matter the mind, not the body of physical ability, it comes from the mind,” she says. The work- :: FERNANDO TORRES shops are open to any woman ALHAURÍN EL GRANDE. “It’s who wants to overcome their fear fear, rather than a weapon, that and learn how to defend them- normally kills somebody,” says selves, whether from body-to- Concordia Márquez, who is an ex- body aggression or threats with pert in martial arts. While recove- firearms, knives, sticks or simi- Reunited again, a very happy Thor and his family. :: SUR ring from a foot injury which lar objects. “It breaks my heart means she can’t do any heavy work when I see on the news the atroci- at the CYD Santa María animal re- ties which are carried out on fuge in Alhaurín el Grande, of women in Spain, and also the pain which she is the president, she has of their families. If I can give my Social media brings Thor decided to use her skills to help grain of sand to the cause, then other “sentient beings” - in this I’m satisfied,” she says. case women who are suffering or The sessions are free, but those home to his family have suffered (or want to prevent) attending must pay the gym fee physical and sexual aggression. to be covered by the insurance.

A much-loved labrador who was stolen was found within 48 hours thanks to a viral campaign on the internet

The devastated owners ria he runs in Playamar, Torremoli- cognised the man. She found him at suspected who had taken nos, for a few minutes, and left the home, but there was no sign of Thor. door open and Thor tied to a lamp- “He said he didn’t know anything. I him but thought the dog post. “When I came out, he had gone. suspected they had sold him,” she had probably been sold I started searching for him, rang the says. immediately. Instead, family, and that’s how it all began,” Meanwhile, Bruno had posted pho- he says. tos on social media and asked for help, there was a happy ending Rocío was on duty with the emer- and the response was phenomenal. gency unit at the San Miguel medi- “It went viral,” he says. “The police :: JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS cal centre when she received the call. shared it, vets shared it, animal res- MALAGA. Rocío talks about Thor, “I was devastated. There was no way cue societies, individuals, it was in- an eight-year-old labrador, as if he I could work. I had to look for Thor,” credible.” Then on the Sunday night, were a child. “I had him first,” she she says. a woman rang and said she thought says. “I always say I have a human Bruno had obtained a photo of the she had just seen Thor in Capuchi- son and a canine one”. So it is easy to possible thieves from a security ca- nos. The police searched the area, and understand how she felt on Saturday mera: a man in his twenties and a wo- finally found the dog, in one of the when, at 12.30pm, she received a call man of about 40, walking away with squats. “No sign of the woman or the from her husband to tell her that the Thor on a lead. Rocío, whose job of- lad, but at least Thor was safe. It was dog had been stolen. ten takes her to poor districts where less than 48 hours, but felt like weeks Bruno had popped in to the pizze- there are squatters, thought she re- and weeks without him,” says Rocío. Concordia Márques (left) during one of the sessions. :: CYD August 9th to 15th 2019 15 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Final preparations are in full swing for the start of Malaga’s famous August fair next week

Rules for the huge ‘feria’, visitors are asked to use public trans- Merced, among others. which begins in full on port. The regulations also govern At 9.30pm at the showground, the sale of alcohol to be consumed more than 2.5 million lightbulbs Thursday, include not outdoors. will be switched on, illuminating going shirtless, and extra In addition, extra security has the festivities into the early hours. security measures have been announced, with the installa- The municipal auditorium will tion of ten fixed cameras covering also play a role in this year’s fair, also been announced the busiest areas at the afternoon hosting an array of performances and evening showground. Also, as from the likes of Justo Gómez and :: LUCY NEWBY / SUR last year, private hire cars through Andy& Lucas (Thursday 16), Ma- MALAGA. The Mayor of Malaga, apps such as Uber and Cabify will nolo Sarria and Toni Zenet (Satur- Francisco de la Torre, has announced not be able to access the showground. day 17) and Sani Márquez and Ro- a series of specific rules and regula- sario Flores (Monday 19). Almost ready - the huge showground’s lights are in place. :: SUR tions for the huge Malaga fair, which Biggest in the south starts next week. The famous ‘feria’ Malaga’s fair, the biggest summer begins on Wednesday night, 15 ‘feria’ in the south of Spain, runs August, with fireworks and starts until Saturday, 24 August, and will CITY’S BULLRING in full on Thursday at 12pm. The draw many thousands of locals and rules include wearing adequate visitors. The events in the city cen- IS READ FOR THE clothing and restrictions on the use tre will begin each day at 12pm and FERIA FIGHTS of electric scooters in the centre. finish at 6pm, when bars will have The clothing rule means fair-go- to move indoors and outside music AFTER FACELIFT ers must cover their torsos through- will have to be turned off. The large out the centre during the busy fair showground, on the outskirts of the period, with the mayor explaining city, will have 120 bars and restau- The historic La Malagueta it is for reasons of hygiene and out rants, known as ‘casetas’, and fun- bullring in Malaga is getting of respect for others. It is not the fair, and will open at 12pm each ready for the annual bullfight- first time there has been opposition day with many staying open until ing festival, which starts on 14 to this type of behaviour; in 2017 6am. August. Technicians carried hotel owners started a campaign to The fair kicks off on Malagueta out a final inspection of the promote the importance of dress- beach on Wednesday with live per- building, built in the 1870s, as ing appropriately at the fair in the formances and firework displays at a multi-million-euro facelift centre, with some even handing out around midnight. On Thursday was finished which modern- tshirts. morning there will be the traditional ised its facilities and restored Also included in the regulations procession and floral offering to the its architecture. A white plas- are electric scooters, which the image of the Virgen Victoria, patron ter external facing has been mayor banned from being parked saint of Malaga. Other events on removed to reveal intricate in the centre in April. There will also Thursday include performances by brickwork and new facilities be restricted parking areas in the Carlos Bravo and Comando Bandera for bullfighters and keeping centre during the festivities with in Plaza de la Constitución, Freeska bulls have been installed. :: MIGUE FERÁNDEZ certain zones being out of use and Malaga Ensemble in Plaza de la 16 August 9th to 15th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Torremolinos branch of Royal Town hall adopts new British Legion in danger of closure road safety initiative

A series of pictograms the first white strip of pedestrian The club has been will be installed on crossings to facilitate the aware- running for more than 30 ness of road safety. The initiative pedestrian crossings in will become operational on all pe- years and was one of the Torremolinos to destrian crossings situated outside first on the Costa del Sol highlight road safety to schools in Torremolinos. The idea was developed by the University :: TONY BRYANT children with ASD of Seville and TEA-VIAL, an asso- TORREMOLINOS. The Torremo- ciation that seeks to improve the linos branch of the Royal British :: T. BRYANT quality of life of people with ASD. Legion (RBL) has made an urgent TORREMOLINOS. Torremolinos The road safety scheme was appeal for help in order to save the has become the latest town to launched in Mairena del Aljarafe, club from closing next month. The adopt a new initiative to teach road Seville, earlier this year and has branch, which has been running safety to children with Autism since been adopted in several for more than 30 years and was one Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Peo- towns in Andalucía. of the first on the Costa del Sol, has ple with ASD have difficulty with Torremolinos town hall claimed been struggling to survive over the social communication and inter- the pictograms “will take a step in past few years. Unless new mem- action, and so the new project will eliminating cognitive barriers” and bers can be found, it will cease to use a sequence of pictograms on also assist the elderly. exist. The Torremolinos branch is also in need of committee members, as well as a new venue where the few surviving members can Mary LeCorney is hoping to retire after more than 20 years. :: SUR hold their monthly meeting. Mary LeCorney has been the to see it disappear, but if we don’t be no one to replace them. branch’s chairperson for more than find a new venue and attract more “We have struggled because we 20 years and she is now hoping to interest, the branch will be forced just don’t have the people anymore. step down if a replacement can be to close,” Mary told SUR in English. We only have about 30 members, found. Mary, who holds a Life Mem- Today, the Torremolinos branch but most live in the UK now, so bership - one of the RBL’s most pres- has less than 30 members, although only a few people attend the meet- tigious credits, is also currently act- only a handful attends the monthly ings. One of the biggest problems ing district secretary, a position she meetings. When Mary first joined we are facing now is finding a new had retired from several years ago. the branch in 1989, there were venue where we can meet,” Mary “I am now 83 years old and would around 150 members, but over the said. like to retire from office. I am a Life years members have returned to Contact: 952 370 907 or Member of the RBL and would hate the UK or died and there seems to [email protected] Pictograms will facilitate the awareness of road safety. :: SUR

HERE AND THERE Campsites call for an end to ban on guests staying more than six months

MALAGA :: P. MARTÍNEZ. Campsites in An- dalucía have asked the Junta regional government to lift a ban on stays longer than six months. The Andalusian campsite federation says that the ban goes against the Junta’s stated aim of reducing the seasonality of regional tourism by Infrastructure works will take two months to complete. :: T.B. forcing people to move. They add that it discourages longer-stay win- Train station tion of Benalmádena on the Aven- ter camping by retired couples ida Palma de Mallorca, which has from northern Europe and doesn’t infrastructure works to been reduced to one lane at the make sense as hotels don’t have cause traffic delays junction of Calle Danza Invisible the same restrictions placed on and Avenida Joan Miró. them. In the first six months of TORREMOLINOS Restrictions have also been en- this year, 83,000 people checked :: T. BRYANT. The second phase of forced on traffic approaching the into regional campsites. the infrastructure works for the junction from Avenida Joan Miró. new train station in Torremolinos The work is expected to last for began this week. The work is ex- two months and the town hall has pected to cause delays for traffic advised drivers to use alternative entering the town from the direc- routes during rush hour periods. Cigarette clean-up Colillas’ (Beaches without cigarette butts), involves the distribution of scheme on coastline 4,200 conical ashtrays, in which bathers can deposit their cigarette FUENGIROLA butts and other rubbish that me- :: SUR. The Environment and chanical beach sweepers can some- Beach department of Fuengirola times find difficult to filter out. council has once again set in mo- The ashtrays have been designed tion an initiative designed to keep with a conical shape to make them its seven kilometres of coastline in easy to stick into the sand. A lid en- the best possible state. sures that carrying the ashtrays is Tourist reading in a tent. :: SUR The campaign, titled ‘Playas Sin hygienic. August 9th to 15th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 17 18 August 9th to 15th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Council earmarks 1.5 million for Malaga Metro works road resurfacing in Torreblanca demolish majority of remains found in its path The works have already begun and also include Some parts of the With the on-site preservation of the ruins deemed incompati- the upgrading of road Moorish settlement have ble with the metro project, the markings, signposts and been preserved and will decision was subsequently taken street furniture later be part of an exhibit to preserve just the most representative parts of what has been in the future train station identified as the Moorish district :: IVÁN GELIBTER of Al-Tabbanin, just outside the FUENGIROLA. Following the :: IGNACIO LILLO old city walls. opening of a new connecting road MALAGA. Works to build the ex- Last Thursday, 1 August, the between the recently-constructed tension of the Malaga Metro to works resumed, demolishing the developments in northern Fuen- the city centre continued last vast majority of the ruins, except girola and the coast a few weeks week after the discovery of an the parts which will later be re- ago, Fuengirola town hall have this 11th-century Moorish settlement moved and preserved as part of week announced a 1.5-million-euro in front of El Corte Inglés threat- an exhibition at the future train project to improve road infrastruc- Resurfacing should not affect normal traffic flow. :: SUR ened to derail the project. station. ture around Torreblanca. The works, which are already Town Planning, this 1.5-million- fic in the area. under way, include resurfacing euro investment will see a “sig- Another improvement will come around a dozen roads, updating nificant” improvement in the in the form of a new recreation road markings and signposts, in- “quality of life of nearby residents”. area next to the Juan Playa chirin- stalling new lighting and replac- The works, being called out on guito beach bar. The so-called Plaza ing old benches and other street Calles Vencejo, Lirio, Cordoniz, de las Naciones will feature a wa- furniture. Pinzón, Faisán, Cigüeña, Brezos, ter fountain and will pay tribute According to José Sánchez, coun- Camachos, Zorzal, Luganoz and to the various nationalities of those cillor responsible for Works and Pensamiento will not affect traf- living in Fuengirola.

Infamous 38-metre urban slide in Estepona is taken away Aerial shot of the demolition of the former settlement. :: M. F.

It was the longest in Spain :: EUROPA PRESS close to Estepona port, had to be but it attracted ESTEPONA. The company respon- closed a day after it opened after sible for the construction and instal- several images began to circulate controversy on its first day lation of the longest urban slide in on social media showing users who after users reported Spain has now completed its removal. had suffered bumps and scrapes as bumps and scrapes The 38-metre slide, which was a result. installed in the Parque de los Ñiños The town hall on 11 May then or- dered the company to carry out safety checks and the slide, which attracted attention across Europe, was kept closed during that time. Now that these checks have been concluded, the slide, which was at an angle of between 32 and 34 de- :: FERNANDO TORRES grees, has been removed. Estepona town hall released a TORREALQUERÍA TOWER RESTORATION statement stressing that neither the installation or removal of the Restoration works on the Torrealquería tower in Alhaurín de la Torre slide came at a cost to the public are under way. Approximately 90,000 euros has been invested in coffers as it was an initiative on the the project, which intends to guarantee the tower’s conservation, part of developers charged with re- avoid future structural damage and advance the study and knowl- vamping that area of the town. edge of the structure. The restoration is part of a larger governmen- A council statement said that the tal plan to improve the archaeological preservation of the area. The site where the slide had been installed. :: JOSELE slide had “discredited” the town. August 9th to 15th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 19 20 August 9th to 15th 2019 NEWS SPAIN SUR IN ENGLISH

“I have suffered racism”

Luc André Diouf Socialist MP for Las Palmas

Spain’s first MP of sonally and professionally. Senegalese origin, – What were you most scared of, FACT FILE hunger or the police? Diouf has slept on the – The police, definitely, because if I Origin. Luc André Diouf (Fa- streets and been had been arrested and deported it diouth island, 1965) was insulted. “I’m not would have made me look very bad born into a Catholic family of in my own country. It would have farmers belonging to the Se- bitter about it,” he says been considered a failure, something rer ethnic group. He has five shameful. When someone emi- siblings. grates, there are very high expecta- :: SUSANA ZAMORA tions on the African continent. Education. He studied one Luc André Diouf arrived in Las Pal- – Have you felt the need to settle year of Economics at Dakar mas, Gran Canaria, in 1992 with a accounts with anyone now that University. He hopes one one-month tourist visa. He wanted your situation is so much better? day to be able to finish his to see his newborn daughter, whose – No, never. My father used to say degree. He speaks six lan- mother, his Senegalese girlfriend, that bitterness is not normal in guages. who was already living legally in healthy people. Quite the opposite: Spain. Living together proved im- if I have offended someone I always Career. He worked for the possible, however, and Luc ended up apologise, like when I was involved union CC OO (Comisiones sleeping on the beach for 45 nights. in a legal problem over racist behav- Obreras) for 17 years. He He only ate once a day, and devel- iour. Between 2000 and 2005 I was founded several associations. oped pneumonia. He underwent sur- insulted daily, I was belittled, there In 2001 he obtained Spanish gery twice. He was on the point of was graffiti... I often heard people nationality. being deported. His faith in God and say things like “Filthy negro, it’s a Luc André Diouf. :: R. C. knowledge of the Bible came from a shame Franco’s not here any more”! priest at the hospital, who later But I’m not bitter about it. What said it was their place not mine and for racism, and he was fined. I was need to reach consensus through a helped him to obtain training. He be- would I gain from that? Nothing. if Franco were alive I would either sentenced to 18 months in prison, pact of State. came part of the CC OO trade union, – But you were sentenced to 18 be deported or dead. I didn’t want but because I didn’t have a criminal – What would you say to Spanish and one day he received a phone call: months for that incident... to continue talking, but he carried record I didn’t have to go to jail. In people who believe the welfare “Hello, it’s Pedro Sánchez here.” He – That is the only ‘but’ that anyone on shouting insults at me and my 2010 my criminal record was wiped system is at risk because it has to couldn’t believe it. Now, Luc André can say about me in the 27 years I partner, who was from Tenerife. But clean. I suppose some people would support so many immigrants? Diouf is the PSOE party’s executive have been in Spain. It was Carnival, the final straw was when he yelled, use that incident against me, but – That claim is a distortion of the secretary for refugee policy and a so- I was out shopping and somebody “Me cago en tus muertos” [I shit on that doesn’t worry me. truth. The authorities don’t provide cialist MP for Las Palmas. started shouting at me. He was one your dead relatives]. My father had houses or assistance to illegal im- – Can you remember what it was of a group of local racists. He started died a month earlier and I wasn’t Frustrated basketball player migrants. They do get help from the like, sleeping rough? to accuse me, demanding to know able to go to his funeral because I – What measures would you put NGOs but those funds, which are – It was very hard. It was something why I wanted the local bar closed had to work. I was really upset by into effect so that immigration mainly from the EU, are for any- I could never have imagined when down. At a residents’ meeting, I had what he said. He refused to apolo- stopped being a problem? body with very few resources, I was in Senegal, but it made me said I was in favour of the bar owner gise, grabbed my shirt and tried to – Migration is a social reality, it has whether they are Spanish or for- strong and helped me deal with being fined and that people should headbutt me. I moved out of the existed since the world began. In or- eigners. Also, the migrant popula- what happened to me in Spain. It respect local regulations. He wanted way, but he tried again and I re- der to understand it, respect it and tion is normally healthy, and they taught me the value of having some- to know who I thought I was to tell sponded. He was badly hurt and re- recognise the values and rights as- hardly ever have to consult a doc- thing to eat and made me grow per- people in the Canaries what to do, ported me; I reported him as well, sociated with it, all political leaders tor. In Spain illegal immigrants aren’t even four per cent of the population. You should ask the families who employ home help whether they think immigration is a good thing or not. - Looking back over the years, is there anything you regret? - Two things: not having become the professional basketball player I wanted to be, and not having finished my studies in Economics. - Would you sit at the same table with an MP from the Vox party? - If I have to debate with them I will do it, but I don’t understand why someone who is supposed to fight for the interests of everybody would base their discourse on segregation. It is something very painful to have to put up with and I think it is completely wrong for somebody to receive a salary when they are working against the interests of those most in need. -Did you ever think you would be an MP one day? - Never, not in my wildest dreams. - How will your life change now? Better holidays? -No, quite the opposite! The job will be hard work because the immigrant population expects that of me. With regard to holidays, I will go back to Senegal as I always do to see my family and go out collecting oysters with my lifelong friends. In that sense, nothing has changed. August 9th to 15th 2019 21 SUR IN ENGLISH SPAIN NEWS

Sánchez urged by IN BRIEF Migrant rescue ship told all sides to try Watch out for dud coins making a purchase. The National it can’t come to Spain Police launched a warning over its harder to gain in your change, police say Twitter account on Wednesday to MADRID MPs’ support to residents and holidaymakers about :: SUR. The acting government has MALAGA checking their change in euros. said that it doesn’t want migrant be voted in as PM :: SUR. In the summer, there’s a The message says that change rescue ship, Open Arms, to come to small bit of fraud that comes back given out in shops, bars or restau- Spain. The Mayor of Valencia had to haunt us just like a bad penny; rants may have lookalike coins offered the city as a place of refuge :: SUR a dud coin in change. At this time from the currency from a differ- for the vessel which is carrying 121 MADRID. As politicians retreated of year, people spend more in ent country, and the coins could migrants found off the coast of Libya to their families and their sum- strange surroundings and are gen- be worth much less. Examples of but with no port to go to. The gov- mer holidays this week, calls erally much more relaxed, so aren’t coins similar to the euro from Tur- ernment said it was up to all Europe were continuing for acting Prime paying much attention to what key and Jamaica, but of lesser to help and that Spain couldn’t al- Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to find they are being handed back after value, were shown. Turkish coins. :: POLICIA NATIONAL ways be see as the easiest option. a way to win enough MPs’ support to be sworn in as leader of a new government in Septem- ber. If no agreement is reached, ROYAL’S TAKE another general election looms in November. ANNUAL HOLIDAY King Felipe, speaking from IN MALLORCA Mallorca, urged all sides to do what they could to avoid the country going to the polls again. Unidas Podemos, the left-wing The traditional August stay of party led by Pablo Iglesias, con- the King and Queen and their tinues to want positions in a coa- family at Marivent Palace in lition government with Sánchez’s Mallorca has so far been the larger PSOE party. But the PSOE usual mix of business, pleasure is holding out for a simpler, sup- and photo opportunities. Last port agreement only, with the weekend, King Felipe, a keen hope of Sánchez being able to sailor, was skippering in the govern alone. prestigious Copa del Rey re- Earlier this week, the conser- gatta. On Wednesday, he held a vative Partido Popular appeared meeting at the palace with act- to open a door to it abstaining to ing PM, Pedro Sánchez, and in allow the PSOE to govern alone the evening, with the Queen, if Sánchez stood aside, and it has gave a reception in Palma, not ruled out trying to form its shaking hands with over 600 own minority coalition with guests in the welcome line. :: EFE Ciudadanos. 22 August 9th to 15th 2019 NEWS BUSINESS AND FINANCE SUR IN ENGLISH

THE EURO ZONE The cost of renting a home has MARK NAYLER increased by over 50% in five years HAPPY HOLIDAYS One of the biggest sectors of the population renting property is formed by foreign residents; 59% of households in Spain from iven how quiet every- ment. But that responsibility thing’s gone in Spain also falls to the heads of the other EU countries don’t over the last week or other main groups. It is their col- own their home G so, you’d be forgiven lective duty to ensure that a for thinking that the country’s worn-out electorate does not :: EDURNE MARTÍNEZ political deadlock had been bro- have to return to the polls for MADRID. The Spanish central bank, ken and a new administration the fourth time in four years in Banco de España, has warned that installed. But nothing of the sort November, which is what will rental prices in Spain are spiralling has happened. On Monday, act- happen if Sánchez loses the next higher, with a 50% increase between ing prime minister Pedro Sán- investiture vote. So far, though, the last quarter of 2013 and May this chez travelled to Mallorca for his there has only been one real at- year, a period of five years and five weekly meeting with King Fe- tempt at cross-party negotia- months. This compares with a much lipe VI, during which he briefed tion, between the Socialists and lower rise in the average price of the monarch on the latest politi- Unidas Podemos, and that was homes for sale of 6.8%. cal developments. One imagines dominated by self-interest on A report puts the rental price rise that that took all of five min- both sides. Where is everybody down to “economic and demo- utes, with Sánchez informing else? graphic” factors and has criticised A man puts a To Rent sign on display in a Costa apartment. :: SUR the King that there is STILL no A coalition comprised of the the lack of a standard index to meas- new government, more than Socialists and centrist Ciuda- ure rental price increases that strips young people. The Banco de España suggests that three months since the last gen- danos is the only combination out odd types of property that cloud In 2018, 59% of homes where the changes in tax breaks have stimu- eral election. Nor will there be that would have a parliamentary the figures. main householder was from another lated the rental market, both in terms one anytime soon. majority, which you’d think The central bank said that the per- EU country were renting, and 77% of properties being bought to rent In the press conference after would be incentive enough to centage of rental properties of the from non- EU countries. and people preferring to rent. his meeting, Sánchez declared start negotiating. Yet since April total number of homes in Spain rose In terms of young people, the ra- The proportion of homes being his intention to attempt to form 28th the latter party’s leader, Al- from 19.4 per cent in 2005 to 23.9% tio of households renting where the rented in Spain (23.9%) is still lower a government right up until the bert Rivera, has failed to ap- in 2018. main person was aged 30-44 years than other countries, such as Ger- third investiture vote, due to be proach Sánchez, instead sticking The main groups of residents who was 30 per cent of the total for that many, (48,6%), France, (35,6%) or held on September 23rd. “I ha- to his line that the Socialist rent in Spain are foreigners and age, up from 19 per cent in 2018. the UK, (35%). ven’t lost hope, I’m not throw- leader has been too lenient on ing in the towel,” he told the as- Catalan separatists. sembled journalists. It was fight- The conservative Popular ing talk, demonstrating that Party has said that it’s prepared in 2018 alone led to 347 million be- Sánchez is determined to be pro- to abstain on September 23rd, Government claws back 15 billion ing collected in 494 different cases active, even after his defeat in but only if another Socialist can- opened, 44% more cases than the the first two investiture votes. didate is put forward for prime in unpaid or fraudulent tax in 2018 previous year for the whole group. It’d be good to see a little more minister, which is not going to proactiveness from the leaders happen. Again, self-interest Rental income of Spain’s other political parties, dominates and there’s no sense :: E. MARTÍNEZ since 2008, the government has The tax office has highlighted the who have apparently given up of urgency, no sense that a MADRID. The central government’s fallen short of its target to recover rise in warnings sent out to land- and headed to the beach for the fourth (and futile) election tax collection service, the Agencia unpaid tax. lords in the last year. Because of in- rest of the summer. must be avoided. Nothing will Tributaria, has said that it managed Since 2004, when current records creased sharing of information with As acting prime minister and happen for the rest of the to get hold of an extra 15.1 billion began, it says it has got back 156.1 platforms like Air BnB, 700,000 no- leader of the Socialists, the party month now, as everything - euros in 2018 in its efforts to pre- billion in unpaid taxes through its tices have been sent out in 2019, up with the largest share of the even government - shuts down vent and to counter tax fraud. publicity campaigns and inspections. from 258,000 a year ago. It says that public vote in Spain, it’s Sán- in Spain during August. Just as This is up on 14.8 billion extra col- Last year, a special unit was set in three years, 122,000 new taxpay- chez’s responsibility to try and well that there’s nothing impor- lected in 2017, but 500 million short up to investigate the tax payments ers with rental properties have come form the country’s next govern- tant to sort out. of the expected figure. In most years of high-net-worth families, which forward to declare income. August 9th to 15th 2019 23 SUR IN ENGLISH GIBRALTAR NEWS

IN BRIEF Duty to be removed Teatro Lírico Andaluz will be available from the John on wooden tableware Mackintosh Hall from Monday 16 returns in autumn September, between 9am and 4pm. GIBRALTAR This annual ‘zarzuela’ will boast :: D.B. The government has an- GIBRALTAR a stellar cast as well as a 24-piece nounced regulations to remove all :: D.B. Dates for the diary for lov- orchestra. Teatro Lírico Andaluz is duty on cutlery and tableware made ers of operetta: October 2nd and the only professional operatic thea- of wood. This is to encourage people 3rd, when the popular Teatro Lírico tre company in Andalucía. to use alternatives to plastic and is in Andaluz will be performing ‘La Do- For further information please addition to the legislation that has al- lorosa’ at the John Mackintosh Hall contact the Events Department at ready been introduced, banning a as part of the Autumn Cultural Pro- the John Mackintosh Hall on wide range of single use plastic items gramme. The performances begin 20075669 or send an email to: as part of the authorities’ commit- at 8pm and tickets, which cost £5, [email protected]. The operettas always attract large audiences . :: SUR ment to environmental protection.

There are already air and maritime links with nearby Morocco:: SUR As Brexit looms, Gibraltar welcomes the idea of a Tangier trade office

The office would be run A press release issued by the gov- privately by the Gibraltar ernment on Thursday recalls that in 1969, when Franco closed the border, and Morocco Business Gibraltar depended on labour and the Association and aim to importation of goods from the Span- develop further trade ish side. The economy underwent a fundamental change at that time and commercial links which changed the focus from imports and labour by land to imports :: DEBBIE BARTLETT and labour by sea, largely from Mo- GIBRALTAR. The Gibraltar and Mo- rocco across the Strait. rocco Business Association (GMBA) “The situation today is clearly dif- is proposing to open a trade office in ferent in that the border is not go- Tangier, and the idea has been wel- ing to close,” says the official state- comed by the government. ment, referring to Brexit. “The con- The office will be run privately by tinuation of a fluid border for per- the GMBA and will aim to develop sons and goods is in the interests of further trade and commercial links both sides. Gibraltar imports some between Gibraltar and Morocco. This 1.5 billion euros a year in goods and is in line with the association’s objec- materials from Spain. The latest fig- tives, which are to foster business, ures show that 15,329 residents of educational, tourism, sport and cul- Spain work in Gibraltar, and that tural links between the two places. 9,705 of these are Spanish nation- It is also in line with the Gibraltar als. There is clearly a commonality government’s policy of developing of interests between Gibraltar and and exploring new markets, and al- Spain in identifying positive solu- though the plan is not directly related tions post-Brexit. However, this does to Brexit, it is interesting in the con- not conflict with developing and ex- text of Britain’s proposed departure ploring new commercial markets in from the European Union. Morocco and elsewhere”. However, the Gibraltar authorities GMBA president Clive Reed is ex- are keen to stress that the Tangier cited about the Tangier project and trade office plan is not due to fears that the idea has been accepted in that the border will be closed after principle. “Now we have to discuss Brexit. the detail,” he said. 24 August 9th to 15th 2019 COMMENT SUR IN ENGLISH LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Fair poor convention

Shameful not to dance PETER EDGERTON MUSIC MAKER WWW.E-PETER.COM In response to Paul Mrocek’s audience erupted in dance and letter last week regarding an- never sat down until the end noying people enjoying them- of the concert. selves and standing up to dance Dancing is a sign to the band at pop concerts, I was also in that the audience are getting his year, the Malaga fair than usual presumably because in traditional garb and having a the seating at the Rod Stewart what they paid for, i.e. enter- begins with the tradi- the consequent insanity distracts genuinely wonderful time. concert surrounded by many tainment, and they are playing tional midnight fire- them from that overpriced sickly After about five, however, the happy Brits. the right music. T works on Wednesday 14 syrup dished out in plastic glasses atmosphere is apt to deteriorate When Rod sang Sailing eve- Previously I took my 74-year- August and goes on until about that masquerades as a traditional as those unable to hold their drink ryone stood up to dance/sway, old mum to see the Pretenders 2026. Well, ok, until Saturday 24 alcoholic beverage but which, for are wont to seek out the role of and who can blame them? Can at Starlite and mum danced August but the psychological ef- the rest of the year, must surely protagonist and most of the lovely you imagine being Rod, sing- through the entire concert. No- fect will be about the same for be repackaged and sold as wood families return home exhausted ing your most famous song and body complained. any locals living in the city cen- sealant. from all that tambourine and cas- everyone just sitting there mo- Perhaps Mr Mrocek would tre. Come to think of it, that’s ap- Spain in general, and Malaga tanet brandishing shenanigans. tionless? be better attending symphonic proximately seven people these in particular, has an abundance We’re closing The Shakespeare Similarly, last month we concerts, or booking a VIP box? days - residents who have, thus of marvellous traditions but the from 18th to 24th because, well, went to see the Beach Boys at far, inexplicably been able to avoid annual fair is not, I’m afraid, one it’s just not our scene man. Starlite, (all seating). When they TOM KIRBY being bulldozed out of town by of them. If you want the best of all tips sang Good Vibrations the whole BY EMAIL the myopic greed of the tourist If you’re thinking of popping regarding the fair it’s this: pop out rental phenomenon. into the city centre to see what for an evening tipple on the first Anyway, back to the fair. It’s all the fuss is about, I’d strongly Monday afterwards. normally far too long at eight or advise an early arrival - 1pm, for Many bars and restaurants will Drone surveillance are still crazy drivers out there nine days but this year it seems example - and a hasty retreat by be closed but the ones that re- on the roads - mixed who think they can go as fast it’ll still be rattling relentlessly about 4.30pm. main open play host to the some feelings as they like just because they on even as the Christmas lights This brief window will allow very interesting characters in- have a fancy car that allows go up. Something to do with the you to catch a glimpse of the fair’s deed and, best of all, they won’t Re your article in the August them too. There are also still Thursday being a holiday and peo- former glory, as it boasts musical be playing any of those six night- 2nd edition about drones be- too many people who drink ple needing to hear the same six groups of all ages merrily singing mare songs - under threat of staff ing used by the traffic police. and drive, use their phones at songs on a loop for even longer and dancing, dressed impeccably walk-outs. I had two reactions: one, the wheel or similar. how eerie and scary that a So bring on the drones if small flying thing is watching they really will help reduce ac- us and can deliver a fine to our cidents. I can get used to be- IDÍGORAS doorsteps with barely any hu- ing watched by a little buzz- So you didn‛t like man intervention involved; ing flying thing in the sky That film was terrible, it very much at all two, if only it worked! above me. then... Driving on roads in Spain the plot boring; has improved since I moved J. DALTRY the actors, dreadful; here 20 years ago, but there BY EMAIL the director even worse.... On the contrary!

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he Junta de Andalucía has killers would be freed from the pos- was called Dolores and the man was said it’s thinking about sibility of being the one to be arrested in 2011 in Torremolinos for charging admission to its pushed onto the metro line. They killing, at 79 years of age, a man on T monuments. It does want to find motives and I hope a bench. charge already, but only foreigners. Red column they don’t find one because the This world is a safe place, although Foreign foreigners, that is, from world would be lost if someone nothing is really safe in this world. outside the European Union. The found a reason for throwing a child We are lucky enough to live in the foreign foreigners only make up 10 from the tenth floor. At the end of nice part, full of beautiful places and per cent of the total number of visi- July a man from Murcia killed his monuments which we will pay to tors and, for the monuments con- 11-year-old son when he had to take get into, but just a little. We can’t go trolled by the regional government PABLO ARANDA him back to his mother, and then around in fear, although one of these in the province of Malaga where hanged himself. The world is al- days there’ll be an accident with an the measure is already applied, they ready a bit lost, but as we’re here electric scooter and it could happen pay 1.5 euros to get in, which isn’t we might as well stay. Last week in to us. But a bit of fear isn’t a bad much. So now we, as Spanish as we ments already do charge admission. last Friday one man pushed another Germany a man pushed a woman thing. This world, the good one, is are for some things, would be The most visited monument in onto the metro tracks when the and her eight-year-old son onto the full of safe places, but also of people treated like foreigners and asked to Spain is the Alhambra (Granada). train was approaching the station; tracks when a train was passing. determined to spoil it. The Copen- pay 1.5 euros. This is a sum that we The most visited attraction in Lon- they didn’t know each other either. The woman escaped and probably hagen metro is safe and no one can would still bother to bend down to don is the Tate Modern, where last If they had known each other it now wishes she hadn’t, just like the push anyone, although a Danish in- pick up if we dropped the coins, but Sunday a teenager threw a six-year- wouldn’t change anything, unless mother of the 11-year-old. A Span- ventor chopped up a woman in a sub- it’s not a huge sacrifice. old French boy, whom he appar- it was a revenge attack among hit- ish man threw his wife off the Eif- marine. I wanted to talk about monu- Not everything has to be free and ently didn’t know from Adam, from men, which wouldn’t be a bad thing fel Tower in 1963 in the only simi- ments, and everything has become some of the most visited monu- a tenth-floor window. In Madrid as the rest of us who are not hired lar incident on record. The woman covered in blood - sorry. August 9th to 15th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 25 26 August 9th to 15th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH The Crown moves into Malaga office

The popular Netflix production about the British royal family will film part of its fourth season on the Costa

its new office in the city. set in different countries of the world This will be the second Netflix and not only in Spain. production to be filmed in the province, after it wound up its shooting Shooting attraction FRANCISCO of the first season of Warrior Nun, The filming of The Crown has the GRIÑÁN an adaptation of the comic book of support of Malaga Film Office and the same name, in early July. The Polo Digital (a centre for the devel-  Twitter: @pacogrinan crew spent four months filming in opment of digital content and tech- The old tobacco factory Marbella, Rincón de la Victoria, nology firms) where the produc- Torre del Mar, Alhaurín de la Torre, tion office for the series is currently has been chosen for the Antequera, Ronda and Malaga, being set up. Located alongside the Spanish headquarters for among other locations. Russian and automobile museums this production, the most This is not the first time that the in the Tabacalera building (the for- British-American series The Crown mer cigarette factory), the centre expensive ever along has been filmed in the province of has been key to the city’s ability to with Game of Thrones Malaga. In September last year the attract film production teams be- production came to Torremolinos cause its facilities are ideal to ac- to convert the iconic congress cen- commodate the equipment used MALAGA. When Peter Morgan came tre into a 1960s version of Los An- for these big productions. up with the idea of creating a series geles Airport. These scenes form In the last year, Spanish TV com- telling the story of the reign of Eliza- part of the third season, which is pany Antena 3 had its headquarters beth II and the British royal family, scheduled to premiere in the sec- there for eight months for the shoot- he knew it was an ambitious project. ond half of this year and could co- ing of the series Toy Boy. Their teams But then he did not know that The incide with the filming of the were joined later by others from the Crown would end up becoming the Actress Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in the first season of The Crown. :: SUR fourth instalment in Malaga. Spanish-Finnish co-production for most expensive series in history - 130 That visit to the Costa del Sol - also television, Paradise, and the new Net- million euros for its second season in the filming in Spain. company Palma Pictures, which is organised by Palma Pictures, which flix production, Warrior Nun, which 2017 - taking the title away from the The Crown now tops the increas- managing The Crown’s stay in Spain, is currently filming the series White occupied two floors. The Celine Dion last season of Game of Thrones. ingly prestigious list of international told SUR that it has been preparing Lines in Spain with Netflix - was fleet- biopic, The Power of Love, also used We still don’t know, however, series that have chosen southern for filming in Malaga and other An- ing, but the fourth season of this se- the building last June to set up its what Netflix plans to spend on the Spain as a filming location. This year dalusian locations for several months. ries produced by Left Bank Pictures shooting headquarters. fourth season of this hit series, part Spanish productions such as Toy Filming in this area is scheduled and Sony Pictures Television will stay The Crown is Netflix’s most ex- of which will be shot in Spain, and Boy, Malaka and Brigada Costa del to start after the summer, although for much longer. SUR has confirmed pensive series in which it has taken especially on the Costa del Sol. What Sol were all filmed in Malaga prov- the company has already moved into that the action filmed here will be cameras into 20th-century Britain we do know is that Malaga city has ince, in addition to international ti- and unravelled the lives of the Brit- been selected as the location for the tles Paradise and Warrior Nun. ish royal family. After ending the story production’s headquarters during The Balearic-based production of the second series in the 1960s, the third instalment, about to be released on Netflix, travels from 1964 to 1976, a time when Harold Wilson (played Murder Mystery the coast and get to know the by Jason Watkins) was the prime min- area properly. ister of the country. and the Costa’s In the opinion of Fresco Film As the characters mature the cast producer Peter Welter Soler has changed and the starring role of good image (Game of Thrones and Warrior Queen Elizabeth II, previously Nun), the controversy is unjus- played by Claire Foy, has moved to A few weeks ago, Costa del Sol tified as the tourist board has the latest Oscar-winner for The Fa- tourist board expressed its “sur- given only a partial view of the vourite, Olivia Colman. Matt Smith, prise” at the image of Malaga film. In the following scenes, who started the series as the Duke portrayed in the Netflix film the couple get on a luxury yacht Aniston and Sandler in the Netflix production. :: NETFLIX of Edinburgh, has passed on the part Murder Mystery. It said that the that offers an idyllic view of the to Tobias Menzies (Outlander), while movie offered a distorted por- coast of Malaga. Welter explains that the criti- tion which shows that impres- the role of Princess Margaret has trayal of the province when the “I’ve just returned from Los cism of the gypsy scene and the sive image of Malaga”. Murder now been taken over by Helena Bon- protagonists, Adam Sandler and Angeles, where the film has bus comes from “not having un- Mystery got 31 million streams ham Carter. Jennifer Aniston, are received at been a great success, and when I derstood the character of San- on Netflix in its first three days; This season is expected to see the the airport by a bus from the said I was from Malaga everyone dler, who is stingy and there- the paradox is that neither the appearance of Camilla Parker 60s and a dancing gypsy. For told me about the film and how fore hires the cheapest tourist image of the airport nor those Bowles, while the Princess of Wales this reason, they invited the spectacular the coast was,” says service, but then accepts the in- of the Costa del Sol were shot in will be the most eagerly awaited producers of the film to visit the producer. vitation for a luxury yacht vaca- the province, but in Italy. character of the fourth season to be filmed on the Costa del Sol. August 9th to 15th 2019 27 SUR IN ENGLISH LIFESTYLE First class acts hit the summer stage

Luis Fonsi, James Rhodes, Katie Melua and David Bisbal were at Starlite this week

:: ALEJANDRO DÍAZ MARBELLA. The Starlite festival in Marbella has already seen a host of performances by some of the great names in music, including The Beach Boys, Kool & The Gang, Sting and Ja- mie Cullum; this week it has been the turn of Luis Fonsi, James Rhodes, Katie Melua and David Bisbal. Fonsi, the “hurricane of Latin rhythm” appeared for the third time David Bisbal on Tuesday. :: A. P. at Starlite on Saturday and entertained his fans with some of his most popular hits. Monday saw both British pianist James Rhodes and singer Katie Me- lua in concert with James appearing first to play a repertoire of classical music in his inimitable style. Singer and composer Katie Melua was up on stage next and sang a selection of her own hits as well as her adaptation of some covers, she spoke little between songs except for thank the audience for their applause. David Bisbal returned to the Star- lite stage and a sellout concert on Tuesday. Starlite continues next week with more stars lined up including British pop star Jessi J on 16 August. The musical highlight of the week, however, had to be the Jennifer Lopez concert on Thursday night on the Marenostrum stage in Fuengirola. James Rhodes during his performance on Monday. :: ANTONIO PAZ Katie Melua. :: A. P 28 August 9th to 15th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

IN THE FRAME

t was the summer of 1989 that erlands in 1974, however, that was to Peter Harrison wrote his first change his life. “If you want to meet Pet Care column in SUR in Eng- someone, oversleep first,” laughs Erny I lish. Back then he and his wife Thirty years of as she recalls the couple’s failed first Erny were running their kennels of appointment when she was market- the same name and were becoming ing director for a Dutch publishing increasingly aware of the need for in- company. The honest excuse passed formation among owners about look- sound pet advice on by her secretary - that she hadn’t ing after their pets in southern Spain. got up in time - intrigued Peter, who Both Peter and Erny, who later be- made sure to arrange a new meeting. gan penning her own columns on her Erny’s career prior to their meet- speciality - cats, stress they are not ing had seen her working around vets and therefore cannot offer vet- Europe. She had been an au pair in erinary advice, but over the years their Paris when she was 18, and later column in this newspaper has given worked in international schools in pet owners information, based on France, Germany and Belgium. their own knowledge, experience and She was also a travel writer in Swit- common sense. zerland, Spain and Morocco and an “The Pet Care column is about care, account executive with a Dutch pub- not cure,” says Peter, 86, who was lisher and worked for Lancôme as a born in Devon, England. film editor. The British-Dutch couple moved “I was very lucky because Holland to Spain in 1988 to their fourth-floor is very independent about women, apartment they had previously used and so I could get the jobs that women for holidays in Marbella. “It was all in those days probably in England right for holidays but not to live,” says couldn’t get because of the gender Erny. “We brought our dog with us; difference,” says Erny. he was used to Dartmoor where he Peter and Erny saw each other had his own hill.” whenever he was in Holland, visit- Their move to find more space, ing her in hospital for three months therefore, was inevitable and they Peter and Erny during after she fractured her skull (ironi- settled for a property in Alhaurín el recent visit to the SUR cally falling over her cats on the stairs). Grande where they opened the Pet- offices to celebrate 30 “And then he proposed marriage.” care kennels. years of the column. As Peter and Erny look back over The couple recall how it was SUR :: SALVADOR SALAS their lives for this interview, their in English’s then advertising man- stories are all but dull. ager, Eve Browne, who gave them the Back in his television days, for busi- idea of writing a column. After a pro- ness reasons Peter came up with the fessional career almost entirely in plan to film Crossroads for a period television and publishing, Peter Peter and Erny Harrison are well known to readers as in Tunisia. The stories he found there jumped at the chance. That way he the authors of the Pet Care column they started inspired him to start writing a novel. and Erny could inform more owners A meeting with the daughter of a top about dangers such as Leishmaniasis in 1989. Now in their eighties, they talk to SUR Nazi in Spain gave him the informa- and processionary caterpillars as well tion he needed to complete Legacy as offering general advice about car- of Evil that was published in 1997. about their past, present and future RACHEL ing for animals in warmer climes. HAYNES Both Peter and Erny admit they “We came to the conclusion that have been very lucky in the way that there was a lot of neglect in Spain, opportunities have arisen for them due to a lack of knowledge,” he says. in their lives, but perhaps it’s a case The Pet Care column was later com- “We always had dogs at home,” says gul Robert Maxwell, which helped In 1957, Peter started working in of them both being able to make the plemented with a section focusing Erny, who was born in Maastricht, fund the Dartmoor hotel project. commercial television, then still in most of what life has to offer. on the wildlife of Andalucía. the Netherlands, 81 years ago. “Compared with a lot of people, its early days. He began by selling ad- Now they take life more easily, liv- Peter and Erny are well-known Before moving to Spain they had we’ve seen a lot of the world,” says vertising and by the time he was 32 ing with their cat and dog in the among the international community spent four years running their ten- Erny. In fact both Peter and Erny had he was made Deputy Midlands Con- house, 30 minutes from Álora, they on the Costa del Sol and inland, and room hotel after converting a dere- enjoyed successful professional ca- troller for Associated Television, based moved to when they sold their ken- not just for their column and their lict Georgian mansion on Dartmoor. reers and travelled widely before they in Birmingham. There, he was respon- nels 18 years ago. The couple’s love love of animals. Both have been met in 1974. sible for many programmes, among of cruising is among the few things staunch supporters of hospice char- Seeing the world Peter, who is also a qualified rid- them the soap opera Crossroads. that drag them away from their home, ity Cudeca, and Erny was involved in They had previously been based in ing instructor, was born in Devon A series of events and chance meet- where after 30 years they still write opening the shops in Coín and Álora, the UK but also travelled the world, and went to school and university in ings led Peter, who has a son, Neil their Pet Care columns. where she was manager until 2010. thanks to Peter’s job as international Exeter. He served as an army officer (now 59), from Birmingham to Lon- “People are looking after their ani- In 2016 Erny received special recog- sales director for New York-based pub- during the Suez campaign in Egypt, don and from television to publish- mals so much better now than they nition for her service to the charity. lishing firm McGraw-Hill. He went where his respect for animals was ing. His job at McGraw-Hill took him were 30 years ago,” says Peter, who The couple’s love of animals goes on to accept a lucrative six-month heightened after his guard dog sensed around the world. hopes that their information has con- back as long as they can remember. contract as a consultant to media mo- a dangerous situation. It was a business trip to the Neth- tributed to this progress. August 9th to 15th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 29 30 August 9th to 15th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

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WHAT HAPPENED TODAY? LANGUAGE FOOTNOTE E9 AUGUST 1995 Terrorista Terrorist Atentado Attack Rey King ETA terrorists arrested over plot to kill king Disparar To shoot Francotirador Sniper Asesinato Assassination They had been watching the royal family from an Detenido Arrested Munición Ammunition apartment overlooking the harbour and the hit- Yate Yacht man had the king in his sights on three occasions Policía Police Seguridad Security very summer, the Span- and arrested three men, who were Intentar To try ish royal family spend a later named as Juan José Rego Vidal, Abatido Shot down few weeks at their resi- his son, Iñaki Rego, and Jorge García Barco Boat E dence in Mallorca, the Sertucha. According to neighbours, Fusil Rifle Marivent Palace. It has become a several shots were fired during the Armas Weapons tradition over the years, and 1995 raid. Escapar To escape was no exception. That year, how- The Spanish police had been ever, King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia tipped off by their French counter- and their three children were en- parts, who were monitoring Rego joying a relaxing break with plenty Vidal and alerted them when he Rego Vidal had already spent a of water sports and had no idea that left France by yyachtach the previous year in jail for conspiring to kill King somebody was planning to month, and they had been Juan Carlos and the then Prime Min- assassinate them.m. watchiwatchingn the suspects ister Adolfo Suárez in Ibiza in 1979, That August,st, an closelyclosely. and had been suspected of being armed unit offthe the In a statement to part of an ETA unit that tried to kill Basque separatisttist the press the fol- A scene from the filming of the two-part TV drama made about the king’s father, Don Juan, in 1975. terrorist group ETATA lowlowing day, the the failed assassination attempt in 2008. :: EFE After the arrests on 9 August, the was also in Mal-al- SeSecretary of State king and his family continued their lorca, staying in an fofor the Interior, ment in which they were staying, member of the gang who was sup- holiday with every semblence of apartment over-er- MaMargarita Robles, the fact that they had weapons with posed to carry out the shooting, had normality. Years later, the dramatic looking the harbourbour said the men had them and documentation which the king in the rifle’s crosshairs three incident was featured in a two-epi- in Porto Pi, wherehere One of the suspects been arrested for al- suggested that they had been fol- times in late July and early August sode TV drama in Spain. the royal yacht was legelegedly plotting an lowing the movements of the king of 1995 but had not pulled the trig- on his arrest in 1995. :: EFE berthed. Latee at attaattack on the royal and his family. ger because he couldn’t be sure he night on 9 August,ust, the securitsecurityy famifamily.ly. SuspicionsSuspici had been The Spanish authorities said later would be able to escape safely im- · Bilingual crossword forces swoopedd on the apartment arouseddb by the location i of the apart- that Jorge García Sertucha, the mediately afterwards. inside back page 32 August 9th to 15th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

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mine may have been abandoned by its miners, but it is still of interest to people who like to A search for small minerals, either for their own collections or to sell on specialist web- sites or at fairs and street markets. One day in December 1999, several members of the Grupo Miner- alogista of Madrid tried their luck at a mine in Almeria province which had been closed 30 years earlier. When they reached a gallery 60 metres below the ground they found a strange white wall, which gave way easily with a couple of blows from a hammer. When Efrén Cuesta, from Asturias, looked through the hole, he couldn’t believe his eyes. He was used to holding small geodes, just a few centi- metres in size, in his hands, but this time he was actually standing inside one: it was a room made of rock, about 11 square metres, whose walls were covered with gigantic and extremely beautiful crystals. That shining extravagance of the earth turned out to be the second An underground jewel biggest geode in the world, and it has just become the first in a perfect state of conservation which The gigantic geode in Pulpí, Almeria, has opened to the public for the has been put on public display. “These are the most transparent first time this week. The mine was worked for a hundred years, but it selenite crystals I have ever seen. It is spectacular,” said Juan Manuel took an amateur collector to discover its hidden gem García Ruiz, a research professor at the Laboratory of Crystallographic Studies at the CSIC in Granada. The giant Pulpí geode, the big- flooding the cavity during tens or everything. In fact, in the mine VIEWS its list of tourist attractions which gest in Europe, is in the shape of hundreds of thousands of years. It there are the remains of half a currently focuses on its ten kilo- an elongated rugby ball and meas- is hard to determine when it oc- dozen other, smaller, geodes which Francisco Fernández Geologist metres of beaches, golf and agro- ures eight metres long by 1.8 wide curred, but Juan Manuel García cal- were split by the excavation and “The Pulpí geode is tourism. Since 2015, visitors at the and 1.7 high. Its crystals, which re- culates that it was between two revealed their interior treasure. The San Juan de los Terreros castle on semble knives of ice up to two me- million and 90,000 years ago. The workers most certainly didn’t think unique and the the coast, three kilometres from tres long, are so astonishingly clear oscillations of temperature in the they were important and used to mine is fascinating” the access to the mine, have been that it is possible to read a book Earth’s crust during millennia in take ‘diamonds’ home as a pretty able to take a type of tour by put- through some of them. In the the Sierra de Aguilón meant that souvenir, without thinking about ting on 3-D virtual reality glasses. whole world, only one larger than in the interior the smallest crys- the fact that they were the result Juan Manuel García Geologist Now the council has taken a step this has been documented, and that tals dissolved and the biggest ones of millions of years of intimate con- “There are no further and, with help from the is in the Naica Crystals Cave in the grew extremely slowly. tact between the stone and water. Almeria provincial government, Mexican state of Chihuahua. The experts don’t know how selenites purer has invested half a million euros A geode is the result of a rare many of these almost magical cap- A secret revealed than this. It’s spectacular” on preparing the site for tourism combination of accidents and the sules exist in the Earth’s crust but, After the accidental discovery by a and making its hidden treasure the meticulous work of nature, says given that they are found at a cer- collector, a group of local research- first geode open to visitors in the García, who knows these under- tain depth, it is normal for them ers studied the find and notified Juan Bautista López Councillor world. There are strict rules: visi- ground treasures very well. For one to be discovered during excavations the relevant authorities to try to “Tourists can take tors are not be able to go inside the to be formed, a rock cavity fills with to extract minerals for commercial guarantee the protection of an ex- geode, but can see its interior hot water with dissolved minerals, use. tremely fragile treasure. However selfies with the through a type of window, to guar- which then slowly cools. They have The Pulpí geode is exceptional much they tried to keep it a secret, smaller geodes” antee their own safety as well as different colours and features de- in that way, because it was never though, rumours spread among preserve this unique treasure. pending on the type of materials discovered before even though iron, mineralogists and they couldn’t “Gypsum is a very soft material, and the conditions in which they lead and silver were extracted from stop two crystals being stolen be- you can scratch it with your nails. form. the Mina Rica from the end of the fore the cavity was sealed and ode as a piece of geological or natu- Footsteps, damp and CO2 from peo- In the case of Almeria, the rock 19th century till 1970. It was very monitored to prevent the curious ral heritage. ple breathing can also damage the is a hollow dolomite in which a fis- lucky, because at that time there and looters entering. During these Pulpí council has always wanted crystals,” explained Francisco sure appeared, through which the was not much sensitivity towards 20 years, the Junta de Andalucía to include the remains of its min- Fernández Amo, a geologist from liquid with calcium sulphate (gyp- these geological miracles: the picks has still not managed to complete ing past in the Pilar de Jaravía dis- the Tecminsa company which has sum) of volcanic origin entered, and explosives crashed through the process of classifying the ge- trict, and especially the geode, on carried out the project to turn the August 9th to 15th 2019 33 SUR IN ENGLISH LIFESTYLE

Underground tourism A gallery at the Pilar PURE SCIENCE de Jaravía mine, growing in popularity where iron, silver and l How does a crystal form? ead were extracted When the dissolution of a Pulpí has joined the Associa- from the end of the mineral cools very slowly, the tion of Tourism Caves of Spain, 19th century to 1970. atoms are placed in an or- which has 40 members in the dered manner and form poly- form of municipalities with hedral structures. There are natural or artificial caves crystals everywhere, some- which are of interest to tour- times visible such as in salt, ists. These include Nerja sugar or sand, and some- (Malaga), Karrantza (Vizcaya), times not, as in ice cream, Altamira (Cantabria), La Jayona coral, medications and elec- (Badajoz) and Jalance (Valen- tronic equipment. cia). “We want people to see the mine, its buildings and its What is a geode? environment, not just the ge- It is a hollow rock whose in- ode,” said Juan Bautista López, side is covered with crystals, Pulpí’s tourism councillor. mostly quartz, calcite and In Almeria province there are gypsum. They form in differ- already some very attractive ent ways. In geodes like the places for fans of geological ones in Pulpí and Naica, the tourism, such as the old Ro- water cools over thousands dalquilar gold mines, the karst and thousands of years. Juan beauty spot of Sorbas, with Manuel García, the geologist hundreds of galleries full of sta- at the CSIC who took part in lactites and stalagmites, and the surveying the Mexican cave, Cabo de Gata Geopark and its said its crystals grew at the beautiful volcanic landscapes rate of “one human hair per overlooking the Mediterranean. century”. That is, indeed, very slow. site into a museum. Those who already know the mine are convinced it is a remark- 500 able tourist attraction. “The mine metres is the distance trav- has a large variety of minerals and elled on a visit to Mina Rica, during the visit people will be able although the pit, which is to see the insides of dozens of also known as Quien Tal smaller split geodes, one of which Pensara, is much bigger. is 3.5 metres,” said the local councillor for Tourism, Juan Bautista Now open López, prior to its opening to the The mine, which is in the Pilar public this week. de Jaravía area of Pulpí, a few The visitors have to wear safety kilometres from the bound- helmets and, accompanied by a ary between Almeria and guide, walk in small groups Murcia, opened to visitors through the 330 metres of the this week. Tickets cost be- main gallery. They then go down tween 10 and 22 euros and to the second level, where they are currently available for can take selfies with a split geode dates between 23 September and access the 40-metre-high ex- and 13 October. cavation chambers. Visit www.geodapulpi.es “They are like underground ca- thedrals,” said Fernández Amo. “The geode is unique in the world, but the geological and mining heri- Inside the mine you can still see tage is also fantastic. There are the ‘cages’ used to descend to the faults, folds and different geologi- depths, machinery, boxes of ex- cal structures.” plosives and tools used by the min- Not long ago, he made a further ers in different periods, as well as discovery: some of the minerals packets of cigarettes and old beer that form the walls of the mine are bottles. fluorescent when ultraviolet light Finally, visitors are led down is shone on them. Calcite, stron- steps to the third level - which is tium calcite, epsomite and arago- at sea level - to access the platform nite glow in hues of red, green, vio- from which the ‘treasure cave’, the let and silver which add to the Above, a chamber in Mina Rica. Right, glowing minerals on the walls. interior of the huge diode, can be spectacle of the underground route. :: PHOTOS: AYUNTAMIENTO DE PULPÍ/TECMINSA seen through a glass panel. 34 August 9th to 15th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

DENISE BUSH GARDENING READERS’ PHOTOS ‘Hot’ crepe ginger

Dramatic Cheilocostus speciosus has petals reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe’s famous dress in ‘Some Like It Hot’

Cheilocostus speciosus (previously cine to treat a range of illnesses in- the Kama Sutra as an important in- called Costus speciosus) is a distant cluding fevers, bronchitis, intesti- gredient in cosmetics used on eye- cousin of true ginger. Unlike its re- nal worms, rashes and asthma. lashes to increase sexual attractive- lation it is not aromatic, although It is men- ness. In some countries it is believed :: CHARLOTTE LEE the rhizomous root has been used tioned to have magical powers and can for centuries in Ayurvedic medi- in drive evil spirits (illnesses) out of FRAGRANT FRANGIPANI the body and in some countries the young shoots and buds are eaten as a vegetable. Charlotte Lee sent in this photo of a beautiful Plumeria, com- Common names for monly called frangipani, that she saw in a park in Marbella. Cheilocostus speciosus include crepe ginger, cane reed, Malay ginger, spiral flag and wild ginger. It is a member of the Costaceae family and is native to Malaysia, India, Bhutan, Nepal, South China, Taiwan, Indo China, New Guinea and parts of Aus- tralia Its large, thick, glossy leaves up to 30cm long are arranged around the red tinged cane-like stems in a spiral. The delicate white crepe-like flowers open from attractive red cone-shaped bracts in the late summer or early autumn. After flow- ering has finished the red bracts re- :: VALERIE BOWEN main and oval fruit capsules form with black seeds inside. AECHMEA FASCIATA Crepe ginger can grow up to three metres tall in frost-free areas but is usually a lot smaller if Valerie Bowen in Caleta de Vélez sent in this photo of an Aech- grown in a container. Partial shade mea fasciata which she has in her patio, just ten metres from the is preferable to a location in full beach. “The salty air doesn’t seem to affect them,” she said. sun and it will withstand some drought but is not cold hardy. Propagation is by carefully re- moving and potting up the plant- PHOTOS lets that form in the leaf axils just below the flower head. Crepe gin- Calling all Email your photos to eng- ger will also grow from cuttings or [email protected] or send by splitting the clump when it is gardeners them to SUR in English, dormant and replanting pieces of Avda Dr Marañón 48, 29009 the rhizome with at least one ‘eye’. We know that many of our Malaga, with a caption and a There is a variegated form of readers have lovely gardens, few words of explanation. crepe ginger C. Speciosus ‘Varie- or enjoy growing plants on Alternatively, you can send gatus’ which has cream and green their terraces or balconies, them to us via Facebook leaves and is shorter than the non- so why not share them with (surenglish) or Twitter Cheilocostus speciosus and close-up of a flower. :: WIKIMEDIA variegated species. others? (@SUR_English) August 9th to 15th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 35 36 August 9th to 15th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH Bullfighting season: the moral question

A book by Scottish writer A. L. Kennedy is among the best English-language preparations for a ‘corrida’

the matador is wonderful, it’s not even going to approach an artistry that would begin to excuse a death. If you’re up for it and okay with all MARK NAYLER that, you would really need to read up on it so that you understand what  [email protected] on earth is going on - and it’s good to have a bit of Spanish so that you MALAGA. The ten-day Malaga feria can chat with people watching and kicks off next week and will feature get that angle.” eight bullfights, running from 14 to The moral question posed by the 21 August. If you’re curious about the corrida is whether its art and beauty spectacle and are thinking of seeing justify the punishment the bull suf- a “corrida de toros” (literally “run- fers in the ring and, ultimately, its ning of bulls”; “bullfight” is a handy death. A second, equally challeng- but misleading translation), it’s worth ing, question follows logically: if preparing yourself, as best you can, there is no art or beauty, is the cor- for what you’ll see in the ring. I’d rida immoral? I have deployed what highly recommend reading the Scot- might be called the “aesthetic de- tish writer A.L. Kennedy’s book On fence” many times in the past, but Bullfighting (1999), arguably the best now I’m not so sure that it holds, introduction to the world of the bulls because the last couple of corridas available in English. I attended were nowhere near goodood Kennedy’s research was meticu- enough to justify an animal’s death. lous. She attended corridas in Ma- Several of Spain’s top matadorsors areare A bullfightbul at a previous Malaga feria :: ÑITO SALAS drid and Seville, studied DVDs and scheduled to perform inn this read taurine magazines and books year’s Malaga feria, but there is ververy evocative”. whether what happens behind recommended to her by an aficio- is still no guarantee that they’llhey’ll ThThe subtext to On Bullfight- them is more defensible than the nado friend. In On Bullfighting, she be able to produce anythinghing ing cconcerns the spectacle’s corrida - the case often made by explains what happens during each elevating or beautiful. wiwiderde context - namely, our anti-bullfight carnivores (a prob- of the spectacle’s carefully-choreo- Yet there is always the treattreatment of animals, espe- lematic position to adopt, but a very graphed “tercios” (or thirds) in flow- possibility that man andd ani- cially those that are killed for common one). Just to imagine “a ing, detailed prose. She also explores mal, working together, will our eentertainment, whether slaughterhouse with punching and the morality of the corrida, looking create something unforget-rget- aestheticaesth or gastronomic. kicking and fear and metal clamps hard at the uncomfortable realities table and when that happenspens “W“When I was researching I and failed shots”, to use Kennedy’s of what plays out on the sand. I con- the corrida can be intenselynsely wasnwasn’t a vegetarian and it’s uncompromising words, is enough tacted Kennedy over email, via her moving. Kennedy found that hard to have a credible position to make you think hard about the Oxford-based agent, and asked what “the poise, the elegance,, the on crucruelty if you consider an av- morality of killing animals solely advice she would give to someone weird gentleness of some matadorstadors Writer A. L. Kennedy. erage slaughterhouse, or factory/infor human consumption. “It’s proba- thinking of going to a corrida for the is remarkable… There can be a high :: ROBIN NIEDOJADLO tenstensive farming,” Kennedy told me. bly as shitty as what happens in the first time. degree of skill, whether you like thehe “I did, actually, try to visit a slaugh- ring,” she says. “You have to be aware that at least skill or not”. terhouse for the book and that was To really make up your mind one thing will die,‘’ she wrote in her Her writing is also alive to the even harder than getting into the about the corrida, you have to see reply, implicitly referring to the fact spectacle’s symbolic aspects - those world of the corrida. I never found one. But before you do, it’s better that matadors, too, are sometimes which hinge on our empathy for “Unless the matador is anywhere that would admit me”. if you acquaint yourself with the killed and frequently seriously in- bull or man, or both. As she put it The author is now a vegetarian, al- world of the bulls - with its “deli- jured (the last matador to die in the over email, “I think everyone un- wonderful, it’s not even though her conversion was owed cate and superstitious atmosphere” ring was 36-year-old Iván Fandiño, derstands what it’s like to go out going to approach an to “the ecological damage done by (as Kennedy puts it), its place in fatally gored during a bullfight in into the world and have it hurt you artistry that would begin meat farming” rather than what Spanish culture and the brutal in- France in June 2017). when you don’t expect the blows she saw in the ring. tricacies of what happens on the “It makes you complicit in some and can’t defend yourself - that to excuse a death” One wonders why abattoir doors sand. On Bullfighting is a great place things you may not like. And unless whole scenario, the bull’s journey, were closed to Kennedy and to start. August 9th to 15th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 37

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Mirlo Blanco. Children’s theme park based in the final section of the El Río ski run.

El Dornajo. Visitor centre where holidaymakers can find out about the main nature, historical and ethnogra- phic activities available in Sierra Nevada.

Hoya de Pedraza. An interesting botanical garden, in which visitors can experience the biological riches of Sierra Nevada.

Monachil. This Granadan town particularly identifies itself with Sierra Nevada, and comes with its own leisure offerings during the summer.

A wide range of leisure activities is offered in Sierra Nevada throughout the summer. :: CETURSA por un Día’ (Geologist for a Day) activity and Altas Cum- bres trek complete the pro- Summer in Sierra Nevada gramme. Sunrises and sunsets watched from Veleta, will be, alongside educational trips to ierra Nevada, the well- in particular. Among other at- not only for fun during the the Sierra Nevada observatory, JAVIER ALMELLONES known ski resort, is tractions, Mirlo Blanco boasts a summer. A range of educational the highlight of the astronomy also a destination to be rollercoaster, slides, bouncy experiences are also available. programme. The observation of S enjoyed in the sum- castles, a zip wire, organised An educational, cultural and the Perseids meteor shower on mer. Until 1 September, Sierra mini-Olympics, and the chance recreational programme has 10 August is sure to be the stel- SIERRA NEVADA Nevada boasts one of the most to try archery. Other more in- been designed for groups of at lar activity of the summer. How to get there varied summer programmes, tense activities can also be en- least 15 people, and includes a Sierra Nevada will also be the with more than 50 different joyed throughout the summer, visit to the Área de Fuente Alta, destination for music-lovers this From Malaga, head in the direction of the city of Granada until you spot activities designed for all mem- such as non-motorised go- with homemade cake-baking summer. The Sierra Nevada por the diversion that takes you to Sierra bers of the public, from young karts, the remote-controlled sessions using traditional Todo lo Alto rock festival, cele- Nevada along the A-395. children to thrill-seekers. boats, and the adrenaline-fu- wood-fired ovens and orienta- brating its tenth year, will take Whether holidaymakers are elled sledging roller-coaster. tion activities. place on 23 and 24 August. The keen to get involved with All of this can be enjoyed at This programme comple- festival has already announced sports, nature, astronomy or an altitude of 2,000 metres, in ments the fun-filled activities the first groups performing: Cordoba Jaén music, the choice is endless. the final section of the El Río over at the Área del Mirlo Morgan, Apartamentos Acapulco The ‘Fusión de la Nieve’ ski run, not far from the resi- Blanco. The nature programme, and Elemento Deserto. Sierra Nevada walking routes, which follow dential area of Pradollano. One in collaboration with El Do- In addition to the opening of Granada Almeria winter ski runs, the Montebajo of the new attractions this majo visitor centre, will offer the many activities mentioned, club pool and the Mirlo Blanco summer is the chance to hire guided hikes to the peaks of several lodging establishments, Malaga activity park have been open all-terrain roller skates, so chil- Veleta, Alcazaba and Mulhacén, bars, restaurants, and shops since the start of July. The dren and teenagers will be able and to the Yeguas, Río Seco, selling mountain gear and hir- Mirlo Blanco activity park to show off their skills on two Aguas Verdes and Lagunillos de ing out bicycles will be open to brings much excitement and wheels. la Virgen lakes throughout the be enjoyed by holidaymakers enjoyment for young children However, Sierra Nevada is month of August. The ‘Geólogo until 1 September. 38 August 9th to 15th 2019 WHAT TO DO SUR IN ENGLISH

tinct pieces by artists such as Denis Belgrano and Enrique Simonet, The Ecomeninas visit Malaga among others. Centre Pompidou Malaga. Until 15 September. ¡Con Ojo! is an interactive installa- Twenty sculptures by Venezuelan artist Antonio Azzato and designed by tion for children. local personalities will be displayed in Malaga city until 25 August Museo de Nerja Nerja. Until 25 August. Plaza de Ecoembes organisation España. Nerja. has created a ‘street Artistic group Visuel brings together 10 of their contemporary museum’ of the fibre-glass artists for their exhibition ‘Under- figures to highlight the ground’, where all of the artists importance of recycling work in Triptych format. Les Chant des Morts EARTH MATTERS Malaga. Until 13 October. Casa Na- tal de Picasso. MALAGA. A colourful group of Me- The exhibition consists of works ninas (from the famous painting by created by Picasso to illustrate Le Velázquez) took to the streets of Ma- Chant des Morts by Pierre Reverdy. laga on Tuesday to highlight a detail that makes them all special, they are Bruce Nauman made with recycled material. Eco- Malaga. Until 1 September. Museo meninas Andalucía Gallery, a street Picasso Málaga. exhibition, will be visiting each of Rooms, Bodies, Words is the title of the Andalusian cities until Novem- the exhibition of around 100 works ber. The figures, created by Venezue- Three of the twenty colourful “meninas” in the exhibition. :: FÉLIX PALACIOS by contemporary artist and sculp- lan artist Antonio Azzato and deco- tor Bruce Nauman. rated with designs by Andalusian per- Fergó, were each asked to design travelled through Huelva and Cadiz, Ecovidrio has made an itinerary sonalities, will be on display in the one to raise public awareness of the with Malaga being the fourth stop with the location of the meninas Carmen Thyssen Museum streets of Malaga until August 25, importance of recycling glass to com- on the Andalusian itinerary. and an audioguide to each sculpture Malaga. Until 8 September. coinciding with the city’s fair. bat climate change. The sculptures are currently lo- on the web: www.ecomeninas.com ‘Perversity. Femmes Fatales in Famous Andalusians, including Ecomeninas Andalucía Gallery pre- cated at important points in Malaga The tour of Spain will finish in Modern Art’ features women art- dancer Rafael Amargo, designers miered in the city of Seville on 5 June, city centre. On 13 August they will December when the Ecomeninas ists who invaded spaces that were Victorio y Lucchino and Vicky coinciding with World Environment be moved to the Muelle Uno marina will be auctioned to raise funds for previously out of bounds to them Martín Berrocal and singer Nuria Day. The street art gallery has already area ready for Malaga fair. charities. or restricted.

Banksy: The Art of Protest EXHIBITIONS Sholeh Abghari Fiftieth Anniversary of the Malaga. Until 15 September. La Marbella. Until 30 September. Lunar Landings Térmica. Rooted in Gibraltar Calle Ricardo Soriano 72. Mijas Pueblo. Until 30 September. The exhibition is La Térmica’s most Gibraltar. Until 30 August. John Sholeh Abghari Art Gallery is a con- Mijas tourist office. ambitious to date and includes Mackintosh Hall. temporary art gallery which sup- An exhibition to commemorate iconic series such as the portrait of Tamara Shaw opens her exhibi- ports and promotes both estab- the landing on the moon in 1969. Kate Moss in the style of Warhol’s tion in Gibraltar. The abstract relished and emerging artists from Marilyn, The Bulldog and serigraph alism exhibition features large around the world. The present ex- The Beatles and the Rolling of the series Girl with Balloon. canvas pieces, oil paintings and hibition includes contemporary Stones collage rope works, with sailing as works by Iranian artists. Mijas. Until 1 September. Casa the underlying theme. https://sholehabghari.com/ Museo de Mijas. The exhibition captures the magic Victorian Spain El Pinto de los Toros of the bands when they were still Ronda. Until 31 August. El Museo Estepona. Until 15 August. Casa young and relatively unknown. Unicaja Joaquín Peinado. Sholeh Abghari, Marbella. de Las Tejerinas. The pieces in the exhibition come ‘A vision of Victorian Spain’ is the Exhibition of the work of Italian form the private collections of theme for this exhibition which 163- Urb El Pirata. painter Roberto Montanari. His Terry O’Neill and Gered Mankow- consists of around 75 works by 20 Andalusian landscapes focusing work is characterised by Spanish itz as well as some photographs British artists (including John Phil- on light and power. landscapes, and more specifically by the great photographer Baron lip, Edwin Long, John Bagnold Bur- Andalucía, with a great passion Wolman. gess, John Haynes Williams, Robert Francisco Benzal for bulls. Kemm and Edwin Roberts) who Estepona. Until 29 August. Casa de Fundación Unicaja Banksy, La Térmica painted romantic landscapes of Las Tejerinas. Tues-Fri 9am-9pm, Seaone. Retratos. Malaga. Until 29 August. Sociedad Spain in Victorian times. Sat 10am-2pm, 3pm-7.30pm. Free Marbella. Until 22 May 2020. Económica Amigos del País. Lego exhibition entry. Museo Ralli Marbella. The exhibition is called ‘Tesoros Malaga. Until 22 September. Granada Mi Aire An exhibition of Estepona-born The temporary exhibition is by Ocultos. Una muestra de la colec- Muelle Uno, Malaga Port. Estepona. Until 31 August. Patio Francisco Benzal’s artwork. 20 Galician-Argentinian artist Luis ción de Francisco Martín Sáenz e The biggest travelling exhibition of Top Garden Furniture, Carretera A7 works of art are featured. Seaone. Hijos’ and is a collection of 28 dis- Lego models in Europe, including August 9th to 15th 2019 39 SUR IN ENGLISH WHAT TO DO

Summer joy/Alegría de verano the climate crisis including tradi- Frigiliana. From 16 until 31 August. tional paintings, photographs, 3D, Calle Real 98. light installations, and films related The Spanish artist Alberto Tarsicio to the climate on flat screen TVs. and Dutch artist Lieuwke Loth exhibit their art. CHARITY Mi Tierra La Herradura. Until 30 September. Lions charity lunch Mercado Municipal. La Cala de Mijas. 8 September, An exhibition of around 50 photo- 12.30pm. Restaurante Valparaiso. Luz de la Vida, Cómpeta. graphs taken by five photographers 35€. from the Almuñécar Foto Club. A three-course meal including wine, beer, soft drinks, liqueurs or an 11-metre -long replica of the Ti- Evaristo Guerra coffee plus canapes and an aperitif tanic, characters from Lord Of The Rincón de la Victoria. Until 30 on arrival. Entertainment from Rings, the Statue of Liberty, Sy- August. Casa Fuerte de Bezmiliana. Laura Elen. Tickets from the Lions deny Opera House etc. ‘El Alma de Color’ is the title of this Shop or tel: 637185533 / exhibition by Vélez-Málaga artist 952485975 Henry Moore Evaristo Guerra. It consists of Malaga. Until 28 September. around thirty of his recent works Horizonte Marbella market Museo Jorge Rando. including oils, drawings, prints and Marbella. 6 October, 1 December Visitors are encouraged to dress up. :: SUR ‘Stonehenge’ is the title of a series serigraphs. from 10am. Parque de la Alameda. of 15 engravings that make up Clothing, toys and electronics, this exhibition by the famous art- Artists Network Alpujarra home decor, jewellrey and books ist and sculptor Henry Moore be- Órgiva. Until 31 August. Town Hall. etc. New and second hand. Funds A Midsummer Night’s tween 1971 and 1973. The exhibition ‘Tierra Frágil’ is go towards helping improve the composed of works that highlight lives of vulnerable people Max Ernst, Historia Natural whether suffering from emotional Dream in Alozaina Malaga. Until 13 October. Carmen problems or with substance addic- Thyssen Museum. Free with tion. ticket to visit the museum. ALOZAINA. On Saturday, 10 the family. An exhibition of 34 works by surre- Animals In Distress auctions August from 9pm, the village The theme for the event is alist painter Max Ernst. Alhaurín el Grande. 13 September, of Alozaina will become the Midsummer Night’s Dream and 11 October, viewing from 6pm. centre of a festival to celebrate attendees are encouraged to Galería Luz de la Vida Peña Asfahal. local artists and creative people. dress up as woodland nymphs Cómpeta. Until 30 August. Calle Fifteen per cent commission from With art exhibitions, live mu- and fairies to add to the magic Laberinto 15 Bajo. each sale goes to AID. Sellers need sic and dancing plus a market of the night. The exhibition includes art works to advise AID (Joe: 626942427) at with lots of craft stalls and ac- Local bars and restaurants by Leanda Jaine, Sandra Costello, least 3-4 weeks before the auction tivities for children, the eve- will remain open late into the Nanon Morsink, Lieuwke Loth and and bring the items for logging in ning promises to be fun for all night in support of the event. Bo Arenander. www.galerialuzde- between 5 and 6pm. www.ani- lavida.com Evaristo Guerra, Rincón. mals-in-distress.eu/ 40 August 9th to 15th 2019 WHAT TO DO SUR IN ENGLISH

MUSIC & DANCE found on www.pueblosblancos 10 August. III Festival de Folclore Gibraltar Calling musicfestival.org Internacional. Gibraltar. 7 September. 16 August. Fran Blanco and Claudia Enrique Iglesias headlines the pro- Starlite Festival Tribute Concerts Vega. gramme of concerts planned for Marbella. Until 24 August. Can- San Roque. Admiral Casino. 23 August. Bohío Flamenco with the Gibraltar Calling Festival. Tick- tera Nagüeles. Doors open 9pm. Adriana la Pimienta. ets and information: www.gibral- 9 August. Miguel Poveda. The voice 17 August. Madonna , Kylie Mi- tarcalling.com. of flamenco. nogue and Robbie Williams trib- Tony Hadley 12 August. Morat. Latin music utes. Marbella. 19 August, 8pm. Club de FLAMENCO band. Tenis Puente Romano. 13 August. Jason Derulo. Holder of Classical music on the beach Tony Hadley will be in concert 11 platinum singles such as Iris Nieto, Wall Bar Torremolinos. 12, 19, 26 August, with his new group performing Sombras ‘Watcha Say’ and ‘In My Head’. from 9.30pm. Playamar beach. hits from the height of Spandau Estepona 10 August, 10.15pm. 16 August. Jessie J. British multi- 16 August, 10pm. Tribute band The Joven Orquesta Provincial de Ballet’s fame when he was the lead Plaza de Toros. platinum artist with hits such as Blaze perform the greatest hits of Málaga (JOPMA) will be playing singer. Tickets from 45€: Flamenco performance by dancer ‘Price Tag’, ‘Domino’ and ‘Bang Bon Jovi. woks by composers such as Bach www.wegow.com Sara Baras. Bang’. and Vilvadi along with a selection 22 August. God Save The Queen. The Wall Bar of contemporary pieces. Gibraltar National Celebrations Acompasao Tribute act reviving all the best hits Malaga. Hotel Vincci Posada del Gibraltar. 3 September, 8pm. St Vélez-Málaga. 2, 9, 16 August, of the legendary pop group Queen. Patio, 11pm, entry free. Rob Sas Michael’s Cave. £20 10.30pm. Cerro de San Cristóbal. Tickets: https://starlitemar- 9 August. Iris Nieto. Oboe and Sabinillas. 17 August, 9pm. Plaza The European Symphony Orches- Rubem Dantas and his trio will be bella.com/es/ acoustic guitar play adapted jazz, Los Naranjos. tra conducted by Denis Vlasenko performing 2 August. La Negra and soul, rock and pop music. The Rob Sas Band will perform will be playing Tchaikovsky’s Sym- El Panky on 9 August and La Tre- 30 August Rosa Ruiz & Foky. classic rock songs from a wealth of phony No 4; Romeo and Juliet Fan- mendita on 16 August. Free. artists such as Free, Whitesnake, tasy Overture and the 1812 Festival The Ocean Bar Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Black Overture. Tickets available from La Caña Flamenca Malaga. Hotel Vincci, C/Pácifico, Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and Sacarello’s Coffee Shop or the Sil- Costa Tropical. 11pm, entry free. many more at the Sabi Street Party. ver Shop or online:www.buytick- 10 August. Parque El Majuelo, Al- 10 August. Richard Ray Farrell, the They will be supported by The ets.gi. Some discounted tickets muñécar. El Farruquito. New York Bluesman. Silver Dollar Forgers. available for pensioners and stu- www.therobsasband.com dents from John Mackintosh Hall. FESTIVALS Musical Marbella Call: 20072134 or www.philhar- Marbella. Until end of August. La V Jazz Festival monic.gi Cañada shopping centre. From Nerja. Hotel Paraíso del Mar. August fairs 25€. 10pm. Malaga. 15-24 August. Full pro- Gastronomy, a market, various ac- 14 August. Félix Rossy Quartet gramme from feria.malaga.eu tivities and a series of concerts 4 September. Eva Jiménez Quartet Archidona. 14-18 August. In hon- Jessie J, Starlite. which starts with Ozuna tomor- our of the patron saint of the vil- row, 27 July. Tickets www.ciclomu- Music under the grapevine lage, the Virgen de Gracia. The ro- Arena Marbella sical-lc.com Mijas Pueblo. Until 21 August, meria starts on the night of 14 9 August. Los Secretos and La 9pm. Casa Museo. Free. August. Day and night fair with Unión. Age Concern Summer Concert 14 August. Cuarteto Gradus. Schu- music and dancing. 11 August, 9pm. Pablo Milanés Es- Mijas. 7 September, from 1-6pm. mann and Brahms. Benahavís. 15-19 August. In hon- encia tour. Restaurant Valparaiso. 25€. 21 August. Manu Sonido System. our of the patron saint the Virgen 14 August, 10pm. Tribute to Queen Age Concern Fuengirola and Mijas Cumbia, ska, reggae. del Rosario. The procession of the and U2 ‘This Is What We Are Living annual event. Price includes lunch virgin is always on the 15 August For’. and a concert by the Jersey Boys. Music in the open-air and is followed by day and night Tickets:https://www.auditorioare- There will also be a raffle. Tickets La Cala de Mijas. 10, 16, 23 August, celebrations with music and danc- namarbella.com from: Age Concern Charity shop 9pm. Plaza Torreón. Free. Rob Sas Band, Sabinillas. ing etc. /club in Los Boliches; Age Concern Louie Louie Rock Bar club in La Cala and Ibex Insurance, Estepona. Avda Luis Braille. Fuengirola. 9 August, 11.30pm. Willie & The In- mates. 50s Rockabilly. Tributes to Pueblos Blancos Music Festival Lions roar in La Concepción Bill Haley, Eddy Cochran, Stray Malaga. Until 11 August. In Ronda, Cats, Johnny Cash, Mr. Moto, Montejaque, Grazalema and Vil- Apache, Johnny Burnette Trio and lalengua del Rosario. botanical gardens Elvis Presley. 5€. Around 20 bands (mainly from the 10 August, midnight. Full Color US) will be performing Western Panda. Malaga rock band with nu- style music. A full list of perform- MALAGA. The Jardín Botánico ances of the 90s. 5€. ances, times and prices can be de la Concepción in Malaga travels from the jungle to the savannah as the setting for two musicals on summer nights. ‘De Simba a Kiara’ (from Simba to Kiara), a tribute to the ‘Lion King’ by the local company Onbeat, premieres in Malaga’s botanical garden on 27 and 28 August. Before that, on 25 and 25 August, the production of ‘The Jungle Book’ returns for the third year. The two family shows, with sessions at 8pm and 10pm, are expected to draw more than 4,000 spectators. Both shows will also be working to support charities. In agreement with the Cudeca Some of the characters in the show. :: SUR Cancer Foundation, bars will be installed with profits from the spent over two years touring, birth to his reign, incorporating sale of drinks and food donated with almost 300 performances official songs that had never to the organisation. throughout the country and been performed live in the ‘De Simba a Kiara’ is consid- more than 200,000 spectators. country before. ered the best tribute to the The show is based on the films Reservations can be made at ‘Lion King’ in Spain and has Lion King 1 and 2, from Simba’s www. entradasonbeat.com. August 9th to 15th 2019 41 SUR IN ENGLISH WHAT TO DO

Faraján. Until 11 August. The vil- Virgen de la Caridad over carpets of The Secret Life of Pets 2: 12.30, lage of Faraján celebrates its Fies- coloured salt on 15 August. 16.30, 18.30, 20.30 tas Patronales in honour of its pa- Fast& Furious: 12.15, 16.15, 19.00 tron saint, San Sebastián. Theatrical tours of the English The Lion King: 12.15, 16.15, 18.45 Periana. 16-18 August. Live music Cemetery and dancing until the early hours. Malaga. 9 August, 10-11pm. Ce- Cines Teatro Goya Foam toboggan slide etc. mentario Inglés, Av. de Pries, 1. For tickets and information call Torremolinos. 9-10 August, 8pm- 10€. 951196665. www.cinesteatro- 3am. The parishes of San Miguel Actors will play the part of some of goya.com and Santa María celebrate the the most famous inhabitants of the Fast& Furious: 15.40 (Fri), 15.30 summer with a fair at El Bajon- cemetery including Robert Boyd. (Sat), 18.00, 22.30 (every day), dillo beach, opposite Minigol Park. 15.40 (Sun to Weds), 20.15 (Thurs) It is also a fundraising event with Trip to Almuñécar The Lion King: 15.50, 18.10, 20,00 money raised going to the local Torre del Mar. 15 August. Various (Fri), 15.40, 18,00, 20,00 (Sat), Cáritas association. departure points (evening). 31€ 15.50, 18.10, 20,00 (Sun to Thurs) A trip to see the traditional Virgen Once upon a Tim in Hollywood: de la Antigua procession followed 15.50, 19.00, 22.00 (Thurs). by firework display. Lux Mundi The Secret Life of Pets 2: 15.50, Torre del Mar. Tel:952 543 334 or 19.00, 22.00 (Thurs). e-mail: [email protected] Scary Stories: 15.45, 18.00, 22.45 (Fri to Weds), 22.45 (Thurs). Trip to Gibraltar Torre del Mar. 19 September, 17 Oc- tober. Various departure points. Yelmo Cines, Plaza Mayor 13€. Centro de Ocio Plaza Mayor, Avda. Coach trip to Gibraltar. Passports Alfonso Ponce de León. required. Lux Mundi Torre del Mar. Tel: 902 902 103 or visit Tel:952 543 334 or e-mail: www. yelmocines.es [email protected] Toy Story: 18.10 (Tues). Fast And Furious Hobbs And Trip to Almuñécar Shaw: 21.35 (every day except Summer festivals, Andalucía Torre del Mar. 15 August. Various Wed, Thurs); 22.20 (Wed). departure points. 13€. The Lion King: 12.15 (Sat, Sun); Fiesta de Verdiales Coach trip to see the procession of 17.55 (every day except Thurs). Villanueva del Concepción. 10 the Virgen de la Antigua followed Pets 2: 15.30 (Sat, Sun). August from 8pm. Centre of the by a firework display. Lux Mundi Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark: town. Torre del Mar. Tel:952 543 334 or 19.40 (Tues). One of the oldest festivals in e-mail: [email protected] Yesterday: 21.15 (Tues). Malaga province, the Fiesta de BTS Bring The Soul The Movie: Verdiales in Villanueva de la Trip to Cáceres, Trujillo, Mérida 12.00 (Sat, Sun); 20.00 (Fri). Concepción is a competition and Guadalupe between rival bands (Choque de Fuengirola. 14-17 October. Various Yelmo Cines, Rincón de la Pandas) playing folk music. departure points. 319 / 394€ Victoria. Calle Arroyo Full details contact Fundación Lux Totalán Tel: 902 220 922 or visit Traditional bull run Mundi Fuengirola, C/Nueva 3. Tel: www. yelmocines.es San Roque. 17 August. 952474840. www.lux-mundi.org/ The Lion King: 21.55 (Tues). The annual bull run, part of the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark: activities of San Roque’s summer 17.20 (Tues). festival, takes place on the 17 Pets 2: 21.00 (Tues). August. A 500kg fighting bull will Midsommar: 20.45 (Tues). run 500 metres through the steel BTS Bring The Soul The Movie: barricaded streets of the town, 12.00 (Sat, Sun); 20.00 (Fri). behind fleeing thrill seekers, to the bull ring. No one is allowed to hurt Yelmo Cines, Vialia. Centro the bull (it is protected by a local Comercial Vialia. Tel: 902 220 922 association who run beside it) and or visit www. yelmocines.es is returned to the cattle farm The Lion King: 13.15 (Sat). shortly after the event. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark: 21.50 (Tues). EVENTS Midsommar: 13.15 (Sun); 21.20(Tues). Toy Story 4: 19.55 (Tues). Noches en Blanco X Men: Dark Phoenix: 21.00 Vélez-Málaga. 9, 10 August from (Tues). 8.30pm until 3am. Verdiales, Vva. de la Concepción Antony and Cleopatra, National Local monuments, museums and Theatre: 20.00 (Thurs). exhibitions stay open late in to the Romeo and Juliet, Royal Opera night for visitors. There are also O. V. FILM House: 20.15 (Tues). concerts and musical BTS Bring The Soul The Movie: performances around the town. SUR in English advises calling cine- 12.00 (Sat, Sun); 20.00 (Fri). mas to check for any last minute Beachwear Fashion Show time changes. Lunchtime and late Cinema on the Beach. Playamar Marbella. 9 August, 12am-6pm. night screenings weekends only. beach. Torremolinos. Free viewing. Nao Pool Club. English sub-titles. An exhibition, shopping stands and Cinesur El Ingenio 13 August: Mission Impossible Fall fashion show of luxury designer Avda. Juan Carlos 1, Vélez-Málaga. Out 10pm. beach wear (starting at 4pm) will Tel. 667 77 31 87. 14 August: Coco, 10pm. be held at the Nao Pool Club. The Lion King: 12.25 (every day), 15 August: Black Panther, 10pm. 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, 00.30 (Mon, 20 August: Yucatán (Spanish) Horse races on the beach Tues, Thurs) 9.30pm Sanlúcar de Barrameda. 9, 11 and The Secret Life of Pets 2: 12.15, 21 August: Moana, 9.30pm. 25, 27 August. 16.30, 18.25 (every day). 22 August: Thor Ragnarok, A tradition that has been running Fast& Furious: Hobbs & Shaw: 9.30pm. for 174 years takes place again 17.00, 19.40, 20.20 (Mon, Tues, 27 August: Murder on the Orient today and Sunday with over 80 Thurs). Express, 9.30pm. horses participating in the races 28 August: Campeones (Spanish), along the beach at dusk. Other Cinesur Miramar 9.30pm. activities include a classical music Avda. de la Encarnación, Fuengi- 29 August: Guardians of the Gal- concert and a procession of the rola. Tel. 952 19 86 00. axy Vol 2, 9.30pm. 42 August 9th to 15th 2019 FOOD&DRINK SUR IN ENGLISH ADVERTORIAL La Fiorentina by De’ Medici ANDREW J. LINN GASTRONOMIC LET-DOWNS A new location but the n email from a friend Next stop for my friend is Que- on an extended visit bec, on a search for the classical to Florida (USA) in- French cuisine that apparently same exceptional value A cludes a photo show- still exists in this old French col- ing a modest pile of shopping, ony. But his bad luck persists. The mainly fruit and vegetables. Most city is a cultural and gastronomic appear to be past their best, but oasis. In the so-called best restau- even this apparently small selec- rants the selection offered is very tion, bought at a store the equiva- unexciting and prices are ridicu- lent of which in Malaga would be lous, with mark-ups that can Aldi or Lidl, cost the equivalent of reach 400%. As to local produce, 54 euros. Three times more than although the city is situated on an the estimated cost here. No wine estuary, good fish is not easy to was bought. Why? Simply become by, and in spite of the sur- cause the value-for-money ele- rounding lush and fertile coun- ment is skewed, and in spite of tryside, apparently good meat is Trump’s allegation that US wines also in short supply. The only rea- are unfairly treated by the EU’s sonable conclusion is that any import tariffs, actually no-one traces of classic French cuisine wants them. that may remain in this once-co- When did we last see a Califor- lonial outpost are about as easy nian or Oregon, or any other US to find as traces of Spanish gas- wine for that matter, on a wine tronomy in the once-Spanish list here? I cannot remember ever Philippines, ergo zero. seeing one, except in ridiculously expensive restaurants where the WINE OF THE WEEK wine list comes in a bound volume as thick as a bible, and in- Malleolus Tinto 2016 cludes wines from every wine- Stelvis La Costa with Brigitte Pigani producing country in the world. Although this particular selec- Anyway, my friend, after tak- tion is expensive (around 28 remain largely unchanged as will the tin and many others. On Fridays it’s ing into account the most nega- euros), it is as good an example of ESTEPONA prices. Victor’s turn. The Mexican singer tive aspects of the world’s most a top-rate Ribera del Duero as you In 1990, Brigitte Pigani and her hus- performs Italian and Mexican hits powerful country (where 33,000 can get. Aged for band Gianni opened the Italian gour- ELVIS TRIBUTE from the 50s and 60s in his original people die each year because they 18 months in met restaurant De’Medici on the 1969, exactly 50 years ago, Elvis Mariachi costume. And on Satur- cannot afford adequate medical oak, it is exclu- new Golden Mile between Marbella Presley returned to stage after sev- days, changing performers enter- attention), concludes that this sively made with and Estepona. In 2011, Brigitte eral long years of absence. This was tain the audience. The shows start particular ‘paradise’ can only be Tinta del Pais opened her own restaurant, La Fi- the starting point of a series of leg- at 8:30pm. considered as such if you belong grapes (known as orentina, just a stone’s throw away endary performances at the Hotel to the 3% of the population that Tempranillo else- from De’Medici. The De’Medici International in Las Vegas. The King INEXPENSIVE LUNCH MENUS controls 97% of the nation’s where). A heady was initially rented and then closed, was finally back and better than ever. At lunchtime, La Fiorentina by De’ wealth. 14º and superb. while La Fiorentina was buzzing. To celebrate this unique comeback Medici offers inexpensive 3-course Since then, homemade fresh pasta in rock history, a fantastic tribute to menus in three different price cate- and crisp pizzas from the stone oven the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll will take gories. For 12.95 euros you can have as well as selected meat and fish place at La Fiorentina by De’ Me- soup or a mixed salad, pasta and a A TRIBUTE dishes are served here. La Fioren- dici on Thursday, 15 August, dessert. The menu for 14.95 euros tina has become the absolute place 8.30pm. Stelvis La Costa will be includes a caprese salad or soup, TO THE to be thanks to Brigitte. She enchants singing Elvis Presley’s greatest hits; chicken breast fillet with seasonal BULL’S BALL every guest with her positive energy. his voice so close to that of Elvis it side dishes and a dessert. Last but will give the audience goose bumps. not least, juicy pork medallions with NEW LOCATION As with all other live acts, admission seasonal side dishes are served for The “huevo de toro” After seven successful years, La Fi- to this event is free. But please make 17.95 euros as the main course of (bull’s ball) tomato was orentina moved premises last sum- your reservation in good time. the menu. The offer applies daily, the centre of attention mer. The new location is the former Monday to Sunday from 1 - 6pm. at an event at El Lago restaurant De ‘Medici. The new res- LIVE MUSIC restaurant, Marbella, taurant is spacious and away from Besides the Elvis tribute, La Fior- · La Fiorentina by De’ Medici this week. Fifteen chefs the bustle with a fantastic terrace. entina by De’ Medici hosts regular Address : Estepona, Calle from the province con- The name of the new restaurant is live acts in summer. Every Wednes- Sabinillas, The new Golden Mile tributed dishes made La Fiorentina by De’Medici. The day, Mark Romana pays tribute to Tel: 952885765 / 609516526 using this tasty variety. :: JOSELE concept of the old La Fiorentina will Tom Jones, Rod Stewart, Dean Mar- Web: lafiorentina.com.es August 9th to 15th 2019 43 SUR IN ENGLISH HEALTH&BEAUTY

Isabel Cintado, the councillor for Social Rights. AECC opens the first active centre for In addition to the programmes that AECC has been providing in Marbella since the 1980s, it also the fight against cancer in Marbella has a palliative care service, anti- smoking unit, voice rehabilitation sessions, a healthy lifestyle campaign in schools and a volunteer It is the first centre of its service. type in Andalucía and is a “We need more support from public and private entities, such as place where patients and town halls, provincial governments their families can feel and associations like the AECC, so comfortable and receive we can join forces and fight cancer together,” said the head of the An- support and advice dalusian service, Miguel Moreno, who also took the opportunity to :: MARÍA GONZÁLEZ call for more specialists in some MARBELLA. This week in Mar- towns and cities in the region. bella, the Spanish cancer associa- “There aren’t enough doctors. tion, Asociación Española Contra Patients have to go from Malaga or el Cáncer (AECC), inaugurated its Seville to the hospital in Algeciras first “active space against cancer” because of the lack of oncologists, in Andalucía. Marbella has now and we are talking about a popula- joined Madrid and Barcelona, the tion of more than 350,000,” he said. only two other cities to possess a He also attributed the problem to centre of this type. The association the fact that many doctors have has been helping in the fight moved to other countries to work, against cancer in Spain for 66 years. and said something needs to be “It is in Marbella, for Marbella,” done to get them to come back. said the local president of AECC, Maika Gómez, about the new fa- Research cility. She expressed her gratitude Moreno stressed the importance for the support received from nu- Juan Carlos Domínguez, a doctor at the AECC, opens the new facility. :: JOSELE of research, which is fundamental merous entities that have helped in eradicating this illness. “We must the project come to fruition, in- cer then we have to do it,” said Fran- atmosphere. “What we wanted to ciation will continue to provide not forget the talent of the resear- cluding the provincial government, cisco Salado, president of the Di- do was fill the space with activity, the same free services as it has chers who introduce treatments the Diputación, of Malaga. putación. light and life,” explained Alberto since it was founded, but “as well and therapies which are proving “We have to put our shoulders The objective of this new centre Arenaga, one of the architects of as offering support, it is a space more and more effective,” he said. to the wheel because our resources is to offer cancer patients and their the project. “This new centre will where people can share their ex- There are seven research founda- are limited, but if we can do some- families a place where they can feel make everything so much easier.” periences and receive medical and tions in Andalucía, one of which is thing to help the fight against can- comfortable, away from a hospital In the new premises the asso- psychological advice”, explained in Malaga province. 44 August 9th to 15th 2019 HEALTH&BEAUTY SUR IN ENGLISH Urinary incontinence, the silent condition that affects millions of people worldwide

The problem affects the quality of life of those who suffer from it, restricting their autonomy and reducing their self- esteem as well as often causing urinary infections and ulcers

:: SUR the fact because of the social rinary incontinence is a stigma associated with it. It is also condition that occurs perceived as a health problem when a person can’t which is not particularly serious, U stop urine escaping or even as a normal consequence from their urethra, the tube which of ageing, despite the difficulties transports it outside the body from it places on the quality of life for the bladder. Age, surgery, weight those who suffer from it, making increase, neurological disorders, them less autonomous and affect- pregnancy and the menopause are ing their self-esteem. It can often some of the most common causes also cause urinary infections and of this condition. ulcers. According to the International With regard to age, although it is Continence Society, more than true that incontinence becomes 400 million people all over the more common as the years pass, it world are affected by urinary in- can occur at any time of life and is continence, and approximately not always associated with getting 6.6 million of them (about 15 per older. cent of the population) are in Equally, although it is more Spain. However, it is difficult to common in women and people of- give exact figures because an es- ten associate it with pregnancy Although it affects men and women, urinary incontinence is more common in women and people often timated four million people hide and the menopause, it can actu- associate it with pregnancy and the menopause. :: JCOMP FOR FREEPIK

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According to the International Continence Society, the condition affects over 400 million people all ally affect both sexes at any stage over the world and ing used for hyperactive bladder of life. and urinary incontinence is botox, In fact, experts estimate that approximately 6.6 which is giving very good results. one in every four men will suffer million of them, in other This toxin is administered in incontinence after the age of 40. small doses directly into the tis- Ageing, the size of the prostate, words about 15 per cent sue of the bladder, producing a re- cancer and neurological disorders of the population, laxation of the overactive muscles such as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s are in Spain to increase capacity and stop in- Delgado,with a teenager who suffers from the condition. :: SUR are some of the most common voluntary contractions. causes. This reduces the frequency of urinating and episodes of urinary Local candidate for Miss Treatments incontinence. Depending on the type of incon- With regard to surgery for Mundo to raise awareness tinence, there are different lines women, a recent study carried out of treatment and alternatives. by researchers at the Mayo Clinic of butterfly skin disease What is important is that the di- in the USA has shown that retro- agnosis is correct in each case, so pubic suspension surgery is more the patient receives the treatment effective than transobturator sur- Noemí Delgado, 25, of (Epidermolysis Bullosa). which is most suitable for their gery for stress incontinence. Benhavís, has chosen The beauty competition will de- condition. This surgical treatment is used The report, based on the expe- termine who will represent Spain Treatments range from medi- for women who suffer inconti- rience of 1800 patients, says the this painful condition at Miss Universe, and all the candi- cation to physiotherapy of the pel- nence when doing physical activ- two most common types of op- as her charitable cause dates are asked to champion a cha- vic floor, different types of elec- ity. It should be remembered that eration are the retropubic sling, and will be its ritable cause. Noemí, who is from trostimulation, the injection of the synthetic meshes used for which consists of placing a mesh Benahavís, has chosen the DEBRA botulinum toxin (botox) in the stress incontinence are different sling below the uretha and behind ambassador if she wins butterfly skin association, which bladder, or surgery. to those used in the case of pro- the public bone, and the transob- began in Marbella and is still based One of the most traditional and lapse of pelvic organs and there- turator sling, where the sling is :: NIEVES CASTRO there. effective treatments is physio- fore, when considering the risks, placed at a less acute angle MARBELLA. Noemí Delgado is a “Few people know about butter- therapy, which solves the prob- it is important to distinguish be- through the space. 25-year-old teacher but is studying fly skin disease and I really want to lem in a high percentage of cases, tween the minor ones associated With regard to recovery rates to join the National Police, and on help those who suffer from it, by but other very effective therapies with the surgery using mesh for within eight years of surgery, ex- 18 August she will be representing encouraging funding for research include the application of subu- stress incontinence and those as- perts found it was 11.2 per cent Malaga province at the Miss Mun- to improve their lives,” she said. rethral mesh, which presents a sociated with surgery using mesh for patients in the transobturator do Spain competition in Melilla. She The painful disease, which is ge- low morbidity and suitable clini- to treat a prolapse. group and 5.2 per cent in the ret- will also be raising awareness of the netic, makes the skin and mucuous cal security. Another treatment which is be- ropubic group. very rare ‘butterfly skin disease’ membranes blister very easily. 46 August 9th to 15th 2019 HEALTH&BEAUTY SUR IN ENGLISH

Use of the free Residents’ lifesaving investment Salud Responde app has increased by over 50 per Two hundred residential communities on the Costa del Sol are already cent this year ‘cardio-protected’ with defibrillators installed in communal areas :: ÁNGEL ESCALERA MALAGA. The free Salud Re- sponde app is becoming increasingly popular with people in Malaga province who want to make or cancel an appointment FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ with their GP, or request information. In the first six months of this  [email protected] year, the number of transactions carried out via this app went up Caretakers and residents by 50.4 per cent, says the director should complete a basic of Salud Responde, José María González. course on how to use the Thirty-six per cent of the popu- equipment, costing 1,500 lation of the province (587,762 euros people) now have this free application and it has become the most- used method of managing health MALAGA. “Let’s hope that we never centre appointments. have to use it, but, if the day arrives The app, which has been devel- when we do, and it allows us to save oped for Apple, Android and Win- a life, its installment is more than jus- dows Phone, can be downloaded tified.” These were the words of An- from the website of the Andalu- drés García, referring to the defibril- sian Health Ministry or that of the lator recently installed in the entrance Caretakers and residents of Cruz del Sur have been taught how to use the equipment :: SUR Empresa Pública de Emergencias hall of his block, in the residential Sanitarias (www.epes.es), which area of Cruz del Sur, Benalmádena. manages the Salud Responde serv- “There are nearly 200 residents since the contract signed by Procar- in the incidence of a heart attack. ice. Once the app has been down- living here, many of them of an dio Healthcare in 2017, designed to ”Let’s hope that we never Those at the scene should call 112, be- loaded, the user has to enter the older age, and so we realised that it promote the installation of defibril- have to use it,” say the gin the process of resuscitation and number of their social security was a good idea to have a defibrilla- lators in residential buildings. The residents of Cruz del Sur, call for somebody to fetch the near- card, their date of birth and DNI tor because you never know what majority of these protected commu- est defibrillator, in order to deliver or NIE. The system registers the might happen,” García said, reason- nities are on the western side of the Benalmádena electric shocks to the person while complete profile on the app, so the ing the installment with convinc- Costa del Sol. waiting for the ambulance to arrive. user can access it easily and directly ing statistics. Sixty-five per cent of Before a defibrillator can be in- The cost? 1,000 euros upwards, al- every time without having to en- the almost 30,000 deaths caused by stalled, an obligatory course must be instructions in various languages in though in this particular case, the ter that information again. cardiac issues recorded in Spain hap- taken to learn how to use the equip- order to facilitate easy use in an emer- community has paid 1,600 euros, with If required, users of this app pen in the home. ment. In the case of Cruz del Sur, gency situation. “It’s crucial that, in the money also covering the cost of can also receive, free of charge, For several weeks now, this com- three community caretakers and five the case of an emergency, residents a device which automatically advises reminders about appointments, munity of residents has been ‘cardio- residents of different nationalities know who to turn to, because every the emergency services as soon as the notifications and information, as protected’ by its semi-automatic ex- who tend to spend a considerable minute lost significantly increases defibrillator cabinet is opened. The well as public health warnings ternal defibrillator, and this neigh- amount of time at home have received the probability of death,” explained cost of the training and posters dis- and advice about matters such bourhood is not alone. More and more basic life support training, including José Manuel Alcalá, manager of Me- tributed throughout the residential as a forthcoming heatwave, aller- residential blocks are introducing this cardiopulmonary resuscitation tech- duba, a company that specialises in complex, indicating the location of gies or other campaigns, in text equipment to their properties, al- niques and instructions on how to the ‘cardio-protection’ of public and the equipment and instructing resi- and video format or links to web- though there is still a long way to go. use the equipment. now private spaces, in response to dents on who to call, is also included. sites. During the first six months According to statistics managed by “With eight people, we can rest the increasing demand from residen- As for maintenance of the defibrilla- of this year, 103,125 SMS mes- the association of property adminis- assured that at least one will be able tial areas for defibrillators. tors, the advantage is that they check sages were sent to users of the trators (Colegio de Administradores to get to the scene in the case of an The Spanish Heart Foundation themselves. You only have to remem- app for these reasons. de Fincas de Málaga), 200 communi- emergency,” said García. (Fundación Española del Corazón) ber to change the batteries and elec- ties have become ‘cardio-protected’ This equipment comes with audio emphasises the need to act quickly trodes every two to four years. Phone calls In the first half of this year Sa- lud Responde also attended to 729,219 phone calls from people wanting to make or cancel ap- Jimera de Líbar, the most cardio- pointments or asking for information. Of these, 4,895 were protected place in Spain through the telephone assistance system (also known as the ‘red button’). On average it takes :: SUR IN ENGLISH of the provincial government, and about 55 seconds for someone MALAGA With one defibrillator recently added four more. who rings the service to make, for every 92 inhabitants, the vil- “Local people are delighted be- change or cancel an appointment. lage of Jimera de Líbar, in the Ser- cause they feel safer,” he said, “But The employees who answer ranía de Ronda, is now the most of course the equipment is also the phone at Salud Responde have cardio-protected municipality in there for the thousands of visitors been specifically trained in com- Spain, far above the national aver- we receive every year.” munication techniques, manag- age of one defibrillator for every Two of the defibrillators are in ing emotions and how to handle 2,000 inhabitants. There are now the busiest areas of Jimera, the complaints, and they receive con- five of these machines for public Plaza Virgen de la Salud and Plaza tinual training in order to improve use in Jimera, and many local resi- de San Roque. They are the most the quality of the service. dents have been trained in how to advanced types on the market, pro- Salud Responde can also use them. viding 24-hour tele-assistance from change appointments with spe- The mayor, Francisco Lobos, de- a specialist in emergencies, calls cialists, and users of this part of cided to install the defibrillators to the 061 emergency service and the service increased by 24.2 per after discovering that equipment GPS location of the defibrillator. cent in the first half of 2019 com- of this type had been installed in They are also permanently moni- pared with the same period last Calle Larios in Malaga. He started tored to ensure they are function- year. Between January and June, by acquiring one, with the support ing correctly. it was used 95,748 times. August 9th to 15th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 47 4848484848484848 August 9th to 15th 2019 SPORT SUR IN ENGLISH Sheikh Al-Thani: “Everything will be resolved soon”

Amid growing discontent, the president took to Twitter to reassure the ANTONIO fans while the club GÓNGORA released an official  Twitter: @GongoraSUR statement on Thursday to Twitter on Wednesday to appeal MALAGA. Following a summer of to the fans directly (it began with perceived inactivity, Malaga CF the words “My message to every- club president Sheikh Abdullah Al- one”). Al-Thani with Granada president Jiang Lizhang in the VIP area at La Rosaleda. :: SUR Thani went on a charm offensive “I know it’s [a] difficult moment this week amid growing discontent But Everything we will solve it soon great history of this Club and, to- tors and the management team. We growing increasingly frustrated as among the fanbase. At the time of [sic],” he said, finishing his tweet gether with the rest of the man- are convinced the team will achieve the club goes through its most dif- going to print, with just eight days with: “Please do not worry at all”. agement team, has been working great accomplishments that will be ficult period of the past decade. until the start of the season, Malaga The sheikh also used Twitter, hard to ensure Malaga CF is in the shared by the city and the fans.” Despite the unrest, however, a have been the least active side in his most used means of commu- best possible position ahead of With the clock protest organised for last week the transfer market, signing just nicating with fans, to say that de- the start of the upcoming ticking, Al-Thani against the “worrying paralysis one player, Shinji Okazaki on a free fender Luis Hernández, currently season”. Neck. The v-neck is keen to boost around the club caused by Al- transfer from Leicester City. missing through injury, was not It continued: “We ask returns on all his standing Thani” only gathered around 20 However, much work is still to for sale. for confidence in the presi- shirts this season. among the supporters in Plaza de la Consti- be done. Last week, La Liga an- dency, the Board of Direc- fans who are tución in the city centre. nounced in a statement to agents Official statement that Malaga were unable to regis- Al-Thani’s comments were fol- ter any new players having sur- lowed up on Thursday by an offi- passed the league wage cap. This cial club statement, echoing the Back. The shirt is all is still currently the case. sheikh’s sentiments. pink on both sides. With this in mind, Al-Thani took The sheikh, it said, “knows the BRIGHT PINK Ontiveros still in limbo with THIRD KIT IS Villarreal move up in the air LAUNCHED

The third kit for Malaga Malaga had accepted an release clause, Malaga accepted an this season is a bright and initial offer but Al-Thani offer from Villarreal of seven mil- The colour attractive pink. The decided to push for a lion euros (rising to nine if various black. All of manufacturer, Nike; the performance-based targets are met). the detail- Badge. The main sponsor, Tesesa; and larger sum which was The offer also included an attractive ing on the is one of the badge are all black. rejected 20 per cent sell-on clause. shirt is in the main This kit, which goes with Club president Sheikh Abdullah black - the details, in all pink shorts and socks, Al-Thani, however, refused to sign Nike logo, black and went on sale on Wednes- :: A. GÓNGORA off on the deal and made a counter- the badge bright pink. day on the online shop MALAGA. It appears that the fu- offer which has been rejected. An and the ad- and at the seven club out- ture of Malaga winger Javi Ontiv- offer from another club was men- vertising. lets across Malaga city eros has been decided. The 21-year- tioned although that appears to have and the province. It was old has only featured in one pre-sea- been a smokescreen. worn for the first time by son game so far but with the club Villarreal are said to be looking the first team on Wednes- needing to sell before they can reg- at an alternative winger and it is not day during their pre-sea- ister any new players, Ontiveros is known whether the offer is still on son clash with Melilla in the prime candidate for a departure. the table, or whether the same terms Benahavís. Despite having a 15-million-euro are being proposed. August 9th to 15th 2019 49 SUR IN ENGLISH SPORT

ROB PALMER Commentator, Sky Sports A LOOK AT LA LIGA @robbopalmer From insanity to tranquility

Unlikely as it may seem, the formerly chaotic Atlético Madrid are now showing the rest how

Okazaki, on the ball, assisted the only goal of the game. :: JOSELE it should be done

Malaga pick up their Who would have thought that the club once considered to be the craziest in the world is now the first win of pre-season model of normality? Jesús Gil, the president who courted controversy, cut a figure like one of the Sopranos and A goal by Hicham, teed gave minutes to all of his players, in- changed managers as often as his cluding goalkeeper Munir who made shirts will be turning in his grave. Diego Simeone has more than steadied the ship. :: EFE up by a superb assist his first appearance since returning As the Premier League went from Okazaki, sealed from African Cup of Nations duty. into a deadline-day frenzy and ‘Lost Boys’ remains to be seen. It’s all looking incredibly well victory against Melilla in Malaga, wearing their pink third Real Madrid continue to operate Diego Costa looked his old self balanced. The key has been keep- kit for the first time, dominated the in a state of turmoil and Barce- against Real Madrid until the old ing ‘Cholo’ Simeone and, more the side’s fourth friendly game from start to finish and, after lona still have many questions demons took control and he was importantly, keeping him happy. taking an early lead, it seemed that to be answered, Atlético have dismissed. Álvaro Morata could They call it ‘Cholismo’. It’s a vibe, :: A. G. the floodgates would open. How- completed the main business, re- be the latest player to rediscover a belief, a system. MALAGA. Malaga’s players received ever, the immense heat, paired with plenished the squad and are ea- himself under the management His detractors, and there aren’t a welcome boost of confidence on constant hydration stoppages, in- gerly ready for the new season. of Diego Simeone. many, say he’s too rigid with his Wednesday as they picked up their terrupted the side’s flow. This is a club that sold An- system. His detractors have first victory of pre-season, seeing Alfred N’Diaye also made his re- toine Griezmann to Barça, Ro- A new defence never managed a club once re- off Melilla in Benahavís. turn from international duty but dri to Manchester City and Lu- Kieran Trippier, meanwhile, garded as a basket-case to two Moroccan winger Hicham scored was just a spectator as his future re- cas Hernández to Bayern Mu- hasn’t needed to master the lan- Champions League Finals, won the only goal of the game in the 16th mains up in the air. nich yet in my view are the best guage as coach Mono Burgos has La Liga and split the Barcelona- minute after being played clean Malaga will play their fifth and prepared for this La Liga cam- wrestled him around the train- Real Madrid domination of Span- through on goal by a superb assist final pre-season friendly tomorrow, paign. That’s some statement ing ground, handling the Eng- ish football. from new signing Shinji Okazaki. Saturday, in the Carranza trophy considering they’ve also bid land international like a puppet Why should he differ from 4- Coach Víctor Sánchez del Amo away to Cadiz. adiós to two of the mainstays on strings. Atleti’s defence has 4-2 just to suit the hipsters who of their success, Diego Godin been a fort for years, now they’ve attach themselves to football? and Juanfran. rebuilt the fort with new bricks. He keeps it uncomplicated and in January (from Akhisar) but failed Atleti have merely shed a skin Renan Lodi, is a 21-year-old Bra- it works wonderfully. Seleznov and to score in 12 outings. He was con- and revealed a new layer. It looks zilian who should start left back He wanted to afford himself Cecchini absent as tracted until next June but with it good, very slick. with Mario Hermoso from one luxury and that was James clear that he was surplus to require- The money from Griezmann Espanyol and Felipe of Porto ar- Rodríguez but that plan was they seal moves ments, a mutual agreement to ter- has been invested in João Félix. riving to fight for places. blown out of the water when minate his contract has been reached. Few can truthfully claim to The team is built on the foun- they humiliated Real Madrid in away from the club In Cecchini’s case, the 22-year-old know a great deal about the teen- dations of some of the best young the States. They couldn’t be seen joined in the summer of 2017 and has ager before the transfer made talent in Europe. Jan Oblak has to be allowing their rivals to ac- played just 28 competitive minutes him the fourth costliest player few peers as a goalkeeper; it’s dif- quire a player that may make :: P. L. A. / A. G. since, being loaned out to Club León in the world. The first impres- ficult to believe that Saúl is still them even better! MALAGA. Not in the squad on and Banfield in consecutive seasons. sions are very impressive; he’s only 24; Koke will relish running Simeone is content at a club Wednesday were veteran Ukrainian Now he is set to join MLS side Seat- shone in the pre-season games the midfield as the senior part- where insanity was once the forward Yevhen Seleznov and Argen- tle Sounders on a season-long loan. so far and the signs are that he’ll ner; and France international Tho- daily state. All is tranquil at Atlé- tinean central midfielder Emanuel Malaga will receive 150,000 euros, slip right in. mas Lemar should flourish in his tico Madrid. Normality never Cecchini as both closed in on moves then a further two million if they de- Who’ll partner Félix from the second season. needed to be restored. away from the club. cide to purchase him at the end of the Seleznov, 34, only joined Malaga season. 50 August 9th to 15th 2019 SPORT SUR IN ENGLISH Valle takes Pastrana’s crown in first event at new Marbella Arena

The Spanish boxer was Valle miss some blows. However, the Costa Rican came defeated by the Costa out victorious (finishing 96-94, Rican in a very even 93-97, 93-97), claiming Pastrana’s fight which opened the crown. After the declaration of Valle as venue in Puerto Banús the winner, Pastrana congratulated her rival and told the media that :: EFE she had sustained an injury in her MARBELLA. Costa Rican boxer hand in the first round, which Yokasta Valle snatched the IBF made the rest of the fight difficult. women’s mini flyweight world title on Monday from Spanish reign- Marbella Arena ing champion Joana Pastrana. The fight was the first event to The Marbella Arena in Puerto take place at the new Marbella Banús became, for the fight’s 45 Arena, formerly the Puerto Banús minutes duration, the women’s bull ring, after months of works boxing capital of the world by host- on a full refit. ing the fight between the former The boxing championship world champion, Pastrana, and con- launched a two-month schedule Yokasta Valle, left, is declared IBF mini flyweight world champion. :: JOSELE tender, Valle. of events planned this summer, The Costa Rican boxer, with the before the venue closes again for aim of taking the titlee that Pas- the secondsecon stage of renovations, trana was defendingg for the with DiegoDi El Cigala and Na- third time, exertedrted a vajivajitata Plateá perform- The World Padel Tour makes good combinationation ing tthe site’s first of blows andd put concconcert last Tues- her rivalival day. its return to La Cala de Mijas against the UUpcoming ropes on sev- eveevents this eral occa-cca- sumsummer in- sions. clclude:u Los Some 2,500 daily tour reaches its halfway point fol- played, with the quarter-finals, Far fromom SeSecretoscr and lowing a mini summer break. semi-finals and finals to be played falling intonto La Unión, spectators are expected The action got under way last on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Valle’s quickuick PuPueblos at the fairground for this Sunday with the qualifying rounds respectively. Malaga pair Ernesto game, PaPas-s- BlBlancosa Mu- mid-season meet of the for the tournament proper, which Moreno and Álex Ruiz made it trana put on sic FFestival, Pa- started on Wednesday. through their clash with Luciano an unaffectedcted blo MilanésM and world’s top players The heat has proven difficult for Capra and Cristian Gutiérrez to defence, puttingtting the QQueen and U2 the players this week with tem- make it to the quarters. Monday’s fight. :: JOSELE enough distancece be-be- TribuTribute ‘This is what :: IVÁN GELIBTER peratures on centre court exceed- The Mijas Open is fast becom- tween them to make we are living for’. MIJAS. It may only have been going 40 degrees Celsius at times but ing a mainstay on this tour for the ing for three years but the Mijas by Thursday only two local players best padel players in the world with Open has already become one of had fallen victim to the elements figures from last year showing that the highlights of the World Padel and their opponents: Bea and 2,500 spectators daily attended Tour. Until Sunday, the fairground Jerónimo González. matches last time out, bringing a in La Cala de Mijas plays host to At the time of going to press, welcome boost to local hotels and the world’s top padel players as the the last 16 clashes were being businesses.

Ernesto Moreno in action in Mijas on Wednesday. :: 2MSPORTS August 9th to 15th 2019 51 SUR IN ENGLISH SPORT Twenty stitches for Luis Ángel Maté after fall in Tour de Pologne

The Marbella road racer’s fall preceded the death of 22-year-old Belgian cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht, which followed a collision at another stage of the tour

:: PEDRO LUIS ALONSO MALAGA. Cyclist Luis Ángel Maté, from Marbella, is already back on the Costa del Sol where he is continuing his recovery from a serious fall last Saturday. The fall happened during the first stage of the Tour de Pologne in Po- land in which Maté made his first appearance following weeks of altitude training with his team, Cofidis. Maté was involved in a collision with teammate Filippo Fortin and :: SANTA MARÍA POLO CLUB fell from his bike only 20 kilometres from the finish line in Kra- Maté required more than 20 stitches in his head. :: SUR POLO RETURNS TO SOTOGRANDE kow. The huge impact to Maté’s head resulted in serious bleeding mate was not so lucky, however, day as the “ugliest” he has experi- Sotogrande’s Santa María Polo Club is celebrating the 48th year of and the cyclist was rushed to hos- and had to undergo an operation. enced in a race, and said: “The hel- its annual international Mansion Polo Tournament. The tourna- pital in Poland, where he spent Sat- The fall happened only two days met saved my life.” He also argued ment runs throughout the month of August and welcomes urday and Sunday night. before the tragic death of young that “the Polish roads were not in 90,000 spectators who can enjoy the White Summer music festi- Despite not suffering a single Belgian cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht, suitable conditions” for racing. val alongside the sporting programme. An intense day of compe- fracture and not losing conscious- who crashed into a concrete drain- The crash came at an unfortu- tition this Wednesday saw Brunei and Cotton House (pictured ness at any stage during or after age tube in a roadside ditch at an- nate time for Maté, three weeks above) emerge victorious from their respective matches, in their the fall, Maté required more than other stage of the tour. to the day before the start of the fight for the Copa de Plata Royal Bliss. 20 stitches in his head. His team- Maté described his fall on Satur- Vuelta a España in Torrevieja.

tre bicycle ride to Granada. Chris Big Challenge raises 5,000 and Jansen then attempted to run up Pico Veleta, the highest tarmac euros towards prosthetic road in Europe. Unfortunately, Chris suffered exhaustion half way up the limbs for Marbella youngster mountain and was forced to with- draw from the race, but Jansen went on to complete the triathlon in 23 :: T. BRYANT who had her hands and feet ampu- hours and 13 minutes. MALAGA. A group of athletic ex- tated after contracting sepsis. “I was absolutely devastated to pats raised more than 5,000 euros Chris Grenfell (53) and Jansen have to pull out of the final 25 kilo- during the Trifit Marbella Big Chal- Riley (55), along with several swim- metres of the run. I was so close, yet lenge, a grueling 24-hour triathlon mers and cyclists, swam five kilo- so far, but at least we have raised a organised to help Sarah Almagro Val- metres along the Marbella coastline, good sum for such a worthy cause,” lejo, the youngster from Marbella before embarking on a 200-kilome- Chris told SUR in English. Chris (l) and Jansen before setting off up Pico Veleta. :: SUR 52 August 9th to 15th 2019 SPORT SUR IN ENGLISH The Hulland sisters take a leap

Lily and Jasmine are from Malaga and compete with Nerja Atletismo - but have British nationality

IN PROFILE

Lily MARINA Name: Lily Rosa Hulland. RIVAS Date and place of birth: 1 Septem- ber 2001, Marbella.  Twitter: @MarinaRivasG Studies: Just finished the Bachil- The older sister competes lerato de Arte and is going to study Art and Design in at Lough- internationally with Great borough University (UK). Britain and leads the Personal best: Triple jump, 13.16 current under-20s ranking metres. Record: GB under-20 champion in the triple jump, and the and 8th overall, third in the Spa- younger just came third in nish under-18s, Andalusian Spain’s under-18s champion and 12th in the Euro- pean under-18s. Jasmine MALAGA. At home they speak Eng- Name: Jasmine Samantha lish, but despite their names, Lily Hulland. and Jasmine are from Malaga. “We Date and place of birth: 29 No- were born here and have lived here vember 2002, Marbella. all our lives, so we can say that we Studies: Just finished her first are from Malaga,” says Lily, the old- year of the Bachillerato de Cien- est by 15 months. cias and wants to study Physics. Their story in Spain began when Personal best: Triple jump, 12.18 their parents, from Manchester and metres. regular tourists on the Costa del Sol, Record: Andalusian champion (in- decided to move to Marbella, where door) and under-18s (outdoor), their two daughters were born. Years third in Spanish under-18s. later, looking to move house, their mother and her two daughters moved to Ronda, where they currently live. While the head of the “I have thought about applying family travels everyday throughout for the Spanish nationality, but the province with her own home the procedures are very slow and interiors company, Lily and Jasmine I would lose the opportunity to study and train at the athletics track compete at international level in in Ronda. that time. Having already com- Although they have occasional peted with GB, we would have to sibling arguments, they are joint at wait two years to switch alle- the hip and spend the majority of giances,” explains Lily. their time together. Lily is 17 years Jasmine, with the Spanish Championship medal and Lily, with the British one on the track at Ronda. :: SUR old (18 this September) and com- Intensive studies petes at under-20 level, while Jas- gymnastics, but I opted for this.” best this year in Europe. ternationally: either a World What’s more, next academic year mine, who is 16 years old (17 at the Her little sister is following in Championships or the Olympic she will be starting of the best UK end of the year), is in the under-18 The right decision her footsteps, albeit with fewer Games. university according to The Times, category. This proved to be a good decision. competitions under her belt. Jas- However, when it comes to com- Loughborough. There she will Despite starting to run very The first time that Lily competed mine finished in the top ten in the peting internationally, they repre- study Art and Design after getting early, their real talent was the in the triple jump was only three Spain under-18 championships, sent Great Britain as both have Brit- 12.2 out of 14 in the Baccalaureate. jumps. “We began doing cross years ago (in 2016) and Jasmine with a distance of 12.18 metres, ish nationality. In the case of Lily, Meanwhile, Jasmine, who studies country and we tried the triple two years ago (in 2017). Today the she was champion in the Andalu- when she moves to the under-20s, science and is a lover of astrophysics, jump later. In my case, I had never former holds the under-18 and un- sian indoor championships and she will no longer be able to com- will begin second year of her Bacca- done any other sports before be- der-20 (as an under-18) record for came third in Spain’s under-18s. pete in Andalusian or Spanish laureate next year, later seeking to cause I am really bad at them,” the Andalucía, she came 12th in the championships and will therefore study Physics at university. older sister jokes. The younger one European under 18s (last year), she International ambitions have to do it in the UK. That’s why However, despite their demand- explained: “I’m the same, I got into was runner-up in the GB under 20s, These Malaga girls are already both while Jasmine was winning bronze ing studies and schedules, they athletics a little later, seeing that leads the under-20s rankings both competing with the Cueva de Nerja at the Spanish U-18 championship, both want to keep fighting to carve my sister really enjoyed it. I used in Britain and in Spain and her -UMA and as with all great ath- her older sister was winning U-20 out a future for themselves in in- to do swimming and rhythmic score (13.16 metres) is the sixth letes, they have their sights set in- gold 2,400 kilometres away. ternational athletics. August 9th to 15th 2019 53 SUR IN ENGLISH

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Horizonte, Malaga 952223346 Malaga, St George’s Church (in the English www.elimfamilyfellowship.com Germany Mauricio Moro Pareto 2, Malaga 952363591 CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST Cemetery, Av. de Príes) Sunday Holy OF LATTER DAY SAINTS San Pedro: Elim Family Fellowship. Sun Sweden Calle Córdoba 6, 5th floor, Malaga 952604383 Communion 11am. Contact: 951 287 382 3.30pm. 695 115 496 Ireland Avda. Los Boliches, Fuengirola 952475108 Velez-Málaga, La Antigua Capilla de S. Mijas international: 10 am Sun Calle Rueda San Pedro: Faith Baptist Church. Sun France 1, Plaza de Santa Cruz, Seville 954293200 José, C/. Linares 7. Sundays 10.30am 7 , Los Boliches, 952469392 / 607521032. 6.30pm, Edif Manantial. Tel: 911820806. Italy Calle Lagasca, 98, Madrid 912106910 Anglican Chaplaincy of St. Andrew, Motril: Sun10 am. C/ Jesús del Gran Poder Fuengirola: Ark Christian Fellowship Austria Alameda de Colón 26, Malaga 952600267 Costa del Sol (East) 34. 958 825665. Family Worship. Sun 11am, C/Rio Darro 2, Finland Calle Blasco de Garay, 7, Malaga 952212435 Chaplaincy Office 952580600. Malaga: Sun 10.30 am, C/Babel 1. Plaza Juncal. Tel.: 952 592 171. Saudi Arabia Mauricio M. Pareto 2 bloque Sur 2º, Malaga 952310358 Los Boliches, St. Andrew’s Holy Algeciras: Sun 10.30 am. C/Sevilla 43. Tel. Fuengirola: Costa del Sol Bible School, Greece Salitre, 16, Malaga 952311847 Communion 1st, 3rd Sun. Morning Worship 956630894. Healing Clinic and “The Beauty of Holiness”. Iceland Paseo Marítimo 91, 29640 Fuengirola 952661200 2nd, 4th Sun. Morning Prayer Mon, Tues, Nerja: Sun. 10.30 a.m. C/Granada,83. Tel. Rev. Joyce McNaughton 663706806. Philippines C/Marqués de Larios 4, 2º, Malaga 952222757 Thurs 9.30am. Holy Communion (BCP) 607 522 671 Fuengirola: The Way, Christian Counselling Hungary Av. de Andalucía 26 29007 Malaga 952308393 Wed. 9.30am. Ministry. Tel. 634369414/ 951135441. JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Benalmádena Costa, San José chapel, Malaga: Believers Loveworld Inc.(Christ 9.30am; Morning Worship 2nd, 4th Sun; Arroyo de la Miel: Avda Del Cerro de Embassy) Sunday11am, Wed 7pm, Sat 5pm. Holy Communion 1st, 3rd Sun. Viento, s/n . Tues. 7.30pm. Sat. 4.30pm. C/Cantimpla 11, Av. de Europa Calahonda, Ermita de San Miguel, 9.30am. Tel. 952561170. 951955354/672805789. USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS Morning Worship 1st, 3rd Sun; Holy Fuengirola: Kingdom Hall, Plaza Marbella: House of Judah (Jewish & Gentile Communion 2nd, 4th Sun. Hispanidad, Service Meeting, Fri 7.30pm. Believers) Bilingual Fri. Worship 7.30pm - Alhaurín el Grande: Cemetery Chapel Sun. 952469082. NH Marbella Hotel Tel: 605924555. EMERGENCIES Tourist Office 952768760 at 11.30am. All age service 1st Sun; Malaga: C/José Palanca, 20. Service Fri Mijas Costa: Baptist, Bi-Lingual services Emergency operator 112 Town Hall 952761100 Morning Worship 3rd Sun; Holy 8pm. Tues 7.15pm. Sun 11.30am and 7pm; Thur 7pm Tel:636 National Police 091 Foreign Residents Dept. 952768766 Communion 2nd, 4th Sun. San Pedro: C/ Amor 6, Fuente Nueva. 422 717 www.libertadmijascosta.com Local (municipal) Police 092 MIJAS Costa del Sol (West) English: Sun 11am & Wed 7.30pm. Heaven’s Gate Pentecostal Church Int: Medical 061 San Pedro, Sunday 10a.m. (Holy Tagalog: Sun 1.30pm & Tues 7.30pm. Benalmádena: Carril de Sirocco 1, Fire 080 Town Hall 952485900 Communion) Parroquia Virgen del Rocio. Kingdom Hall 952788855. Worship- Sun 11am- 6pm, F’ship- Friday Guardia Civil 062 Town Hall Las Lagunas 952473125 Sotogrande, Sunday 12 noon. (Holy Torrox Costa: Local 17, Urb Costa de Oro. 7.30pm, 602392139 Sea Rescue 900202202 Taxi 952478288 Communion 2nd & 4th Sundays) La Iglesia Sun 11 a.m., Weds 7pm. Tel. 952526740. Fuengirola: Christian Family Centre Int. Crime report 902102112 Tourism Office 952589034 de Nuestra Sra. de la Merced. Chaplaincy Torre del Mar: Calle Infantes, Conjuntos Worship Sun 1pm, Fellowship Tue 7pm Foreign Resident Dept. 952589010 ENGLISH-SPEAKING HELP House. www.costachurch.com Islas del Sol. Scandinavian Sun 6pm, Thurs Church auditorium, C/Jacinto Benavente, NERJA Nerja: Sun 12 noon, San Miguel church, 7pm. German Sun 11am and Fri 7pm. 10. Tel: 605329074 Samaritans in Spain 900525100 Wed. 9.30am. (Church shop, C/Malaga 952 Coín: Calle Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. Granada: Avda Andalucía, 53, La Chana, Alcoholics Anonymous 600379110 Bus Station 902422242 522 460.) Rev. Geoffrey Johnston, Weds 7.30pm, Sun 11.30am. 952499239. Worship- Sun 6pm, 605329074 Age Care 952933409 Taxi Service 952520537 952521339. Malaga: Avda de Europa, 69, Worship- Age Concern (Estepona) 608458555 Tourist Information 952521531 EVANGELICAL CHURCH / Almuñécar: Capilla de Nuestra Señora del Sunday 9am, Fellowship- Wednesday Town Hall 952548400 BAPTIST CHURCH ANDALUSIAN HEALTH SERVICE Carmen, (Fishermen’s chapel) Chinasol. 7.30pm, 605329074 Foreign Resident Dept. 952548401 Sun. 9.30am. (not August) Priest as Nerja. Los Boliches: Evangelical Church, Paseo Salud Responde (doctors’ appointments DUTCH EVANGELICAL TORREMOLINOS Torre del Mar: St Barnabas IERE, 11am. Marítimo 77. Sun:Worship and Bible & advice) 955545060 Morning Prayer 1st and 3rd Sunday, H.C. teaching, 4pm. Weds: Bible study and Fuengirola: Skandinaviska Turistkyran. Ed. Bus Station 902143144 ESTEPONA 2nd and 4th. Lux Mundi centre. prayer 7.30pm. Tel 952460728 M del Carmen. Paseo Marítimo 77 Los Taxi Service 952380600 952030461. Torremolinos: Evangelical Community Boliches, Sundays 9.30. Bus Station 955038665 Tourist Office 952371909 Gibraltar: Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Church. Sun service 11am. C/Gregorio Torremolinos: Sun 11.30 in Holland Huis. Taxi Service 952802900 Town Hall 952379400 Sun 10.30. Tel. 78377. Marañón 4. 952384706 Avenida Carlota Alessandri 12. Tourist Office 952802002 Foreign Residents Dept. 952374231 Benalmádena Costa: Songs of Praise, Torremolinos: Gloryhouse International Town Hall 952801100 CHURCH OF SCOTLAND BENALMADENA Interdenominational church service, Christian Center. African Pentecostal style. (PRESBYTERIAN) Foreign Residents Dept. 952809031 Castillo Bil Bil. Sun. 5.30pm. Oct. – May. Sun 11am C/ Danza Invisible, 7/8, Bloque Bus Station 902450550 FUENGIROLA 648666152. D, Nogalera. Pastor Moses. 679740825, Fuengirola: Sun 10.30am at Lux Mundi Taxi Service 952441545 951210300 Ecumenical Centre, C/Nueva 3. Tel Bus Station 952475066 Tourist Office 952442494 MUSLIM Nerja: Fellowship of the King, Pasaje San 952638245 or 952475474. Taxi Service 952471000 Town Hall 952374231 Marbella: Mezquita del Rey Abdulaziz. Miguel, Sundays at 10.30am. 952 969 058 Gibraltar: St. Andrew’s Church, Sun Tourist Office 952467625 Foreign Residents Dept. 952442494 Friday 2.30pm. 952774143. / 958 658 439. 10.30am. Tel 20077040. Town Hall 952589300 VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA Fuengirola: Mezquita del Centro Cultural Nerja: Community Bible Fellowship, C/ Torre del Mar: Sun 11am, Legend’s Bar, Foreign Residents Dept. 952589440 Suhail, Parque Doña Sofía. Friday worship Pintada 35, 2nd floor. English/ Spanish C/Don Cipriano Maldonado Jiménez. Bus Station 952503162 MALAGA 2.30pm. Tel 952473916. Worship, Sunday 10am. 952521776. Taxi 952540016 BAHAI Malaga: Mezquita, C/San Agustín 11. Torre del Mar: Cornerstone International Bus Station 952350061 Town Hall 952559100 Friday 2.30pm. 952228595. Church. C/Solera 2. Sunday 11.30am. Bahai Information Office, C/Ricardo Railway Station 902240202 Tourist Office 952541104 Wednesday 6.30pm Bible study. Soriano, 35, Marbella. Taxi Service 952345693 ROMAN CATHOLIC GIBRALTAR Calahonda: The Evangelical Christian Marbella: 952 90 21 21 Tourist Office 951926020 Marbella: Santo Cristo del Calvario Church, Fellowship, Ermita San Miguel. Sun Fuengirola: 951 259 742. General emergency 199/112(mobiles) MARBELLA Avda. del Calvario: Holy Mass in English, 4.30pm. Rev. Peter Riggall, 952 588 160. Malaga: 952 214 052. Fire/ambulance (emergency) 190 11am. every Sunday. Tel: 952774 899. Arroyo de la Miel: Arroyo Baptist Church, Benalmádena: 952 442 424. Bus Station 955038665 Tourist Office (00350) 20074950 Fuengirola: Capilla San José, Las Rampas Sun 4pm. Conjunto Zodiaco, Edif. Aries, Alhaurín de la Torre: 952411496. Taxi Service 952774488 Taxi (00350) 20070027 (Upper Level), Daily Mass (in English): C/ Sagitario. Tel. 95244796/952386716. Rincón de la Victoria: 952 402 870. Mon-Fri 11am. Sat 7pm. Sun 11am. Calahonda: Baptist Church, Calle San Gibraltar: +350 200 73287. Fuengirola: Lux Mundi, C/ Nueva, 12 Sun. Jeronimo 1, Worship Sunday 11 am with SYNAGOGUES Arroyo de la Miel: Mass in English Sunday School. 952832533. MALAGA PORT INFORMATION Parroquia de la Inmaculada, Sunday La Línea: Asambleas de Dios. C/San José, Torremolinos: Beth Minzi, Av. Palma de CRUISE SHIP MOVEMENTS (SOURCE: MALAGA PORT AUTHORITY) 1.30pm. 41. Thurs 9pm. Sun 11am & 8 pm. Mallorca 55; Castillo San Luis, Local 14. Calahonda: Ermita de San Miguel, 12 Sun. Marbella: Int. Christian F’ship. Sun Daily services. 952052550. Ship Date From Next port Docks Sails Benalmádena Costa: Parish Church of La 11.30am Ed. Milla de Oro. Tel 952810391. Marbella: Beth El, Urb. El Real, Km 184. Silver Shadow 15/08 Valencia Cadiz 08.00 21.00 Virgen del Carmen, Avda. Bonanza. Bilingual Mijas Costa: Iglesias International Costa del Services, Fri in summer 8.30pm winter Harmony V 17-19/08 Marbella Marbella 06.00 23.59 mass English/Spanish Sundays 10.30am. Sol, C/José de Orbaneja 10. Sun 11am and 7pm Sat & holidays 10am 952859395 Riviera 19/08 Cartagena Cadiz 08.00 18.00 Torre del Mar: Lux Mundi, Avda. 7pm; Thur 7pm Tel:636 422 7 Independence ot Seas20/08 Valencia Vigo 08.00 17.00 QUAKERS Moscatel,1-“I”. Saturday. Winter 5pm, Puerto Banús: Christian Church (The summer 6 pm. 952543334. Wave) Worship Service: Sun 11am. The Malaga: Quakers (Society of Friends). Info: Chiclana (Cadiz): Nstra Señora de Europa Wave Café: Wed 11am. Prayer: Fri 12pm. [email protected] church, Urb. Novo Sancti Petri, RC Mass in 637408194/5 puertobanuschurch.com NORWEGIAN SEAMEN’S CHURCH English and German, Sunday 10.30am Salobreña: Fellowship of the King. Various Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro - locations. Sundays at 10am Tel.635 358 Calahonda: El Campanario, Av del Cortijo Sotogrande (Cadiz): Mass in English, 808 / 958 645 027 3. Sun 4 pm, 952939800 Saturday 7pm and Sunday 10.30am at La Viñuela: El Puente Christian Fellowship. www.sjomannskirken.no/costadelsol Sanctuario de la Divina Misericodia Sundays 11am. Under Maroma SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Malaga: Catholic mass in English, Avenida Inmobiliaria. 952117145 / 952518185 Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Ciudad Jardín. Fuengirola: Living Waters Community Fuengirola: Sat 10am. Bible study, worship 11.30am Sunday. 952260760. Fellowship. C/Pintor Nogales, Las Rampas. Calle Palangreros, 60. 952456672 / Sundays 11am. 633716651 ww.adventistasfuengirola.es. METHODIST CHURCH 6262626262626262 August 9th to 15th 2019 TIME OUT SUR IN ENGLISH

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Cancer June 22nd – July 23rd Even those closest to you are puzzled by a distant look and a delayed answer to their questions. Is it love? Well, maybe. The biggest thing on your mind at the moment, though, is the future. Leo SUDOKU BY HANZO THE WORDPUZZLER July 24th – August 23rd Aiming for perfection is great but be Instructions aware that what is perfect for one Complete the 694 person is not always perfect for square making sure another. Please yourself rather than that every row of 513 trying to please everyone. nine numbers includes all digits Virgo from 1 to 9, every 89 2 51 August 24th – September 23rd column includes all Do you feel just like an ever-tighter digits from 1 to 9 74 elastic band? Maybe you are being and every 3 by 3 pulled in all directions. Do you have a subsection includes 4289 all digits from 1 to pair of scissors on you? 9 21 6 7 3 Libra 27 September 24th – October 23rd Forget the past and don’t allow your 793865 actions to be coloured by it. Freedom to choose does not mean that you have to 862 do so right away.

Scorpio October 24th – November 22nd BATTLESHIPS CIRCLEGRAM Big changes, huge emotions, jittery Instructions Find excitement and scattered moments of Instructions where the fleet of ships joy: all of these can be experienced by Replace the (1 battleship, 2 you right now. None of them, of course, question mark with cruisers, 3 destroyers, need to be experienced alone. a letter so that the 4 submarines) are letters in each circle hidden in the grid. The can be arranged to Sagittarius numbers to the right of form words, names November 223rd – December 21st and below the grid or terms on a When confidence is high you really are indicate how many of common theme. fun to be with. This week sees others the squares in that row What are the three remembering that and wanting to be in are filled in with ships words, and the or parts of ships. The your circle. Some you welcome and letter represented ships do not touch each others find that you are too busy. by the question other, even diagonally. mark? Capricorn Some have been filled in to start you off. December 22nd – January 20th Friendships and cash seem intertwined. Battleship Thoughts on this need sorting out but Cruiser keep it simple. If a planned party seems unaffordable, get everyone to bring Destroyers some food and a bottle. Submarines August 9th to 15th 2019 63 SUR IN ENGLISH TIME OUT

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Marbella break for tennis star Djokovic

Former Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima is another celebrity to choose the Costa del Sol to relax this summer

:: ANDREA JIMÉNEZ special guest over the past days: world MARBELLA. Summer in Marbella number one tennis player, Novak is the perfect time for star-spotting, Djokovic. and model Adriana Lima and tennis Djokovic has become a familiar player Novak Djokovic are the latest face in Marbella, where he often trains celebrities to have been seen enjoy- between competitions. On this occa- ing the delights of the Costa del Sol. sion, though, he Ex-Victoria’s Secret model Lima was accompa- started her holiday in Marbella with nied by his a jam-packed itinerary, publishing wife, Jelena, several social media posts, flaunt- their two chil- ing her days out in town with vari- dren and his 27- ous friends, including stylist Ana year-old Antic. Lima also was spotted at Star- brother, Marko. lite’s Taburete concert, enjoying The Serbian, the music with the rest of the Span- who recently ish band’s fans. won the 2019 The model relished the opportu- Wimbledon nity to sample typical food from the Champion- region, enjoying grilled fish at the ex- ship, balances clusive Marbella Club beach bar and his training pro- dinner served by Dani García himself gramme with at his three-star Michelin restaurant. other summer Lima was not one to miss a trip to activities in the beach, and she was recognised Marbella. He travelling by buggy along the prome- has enjoyed a nade. Alongside beauty treatments kayaking excur- and shopping trips, the model also sion with his visited the Puente Romano tennis family and has been pictured hand- club, which has also enjoyed another in-hand with his wife on the beach. Djokovic and his wife Jelena on a Marbella beach. Small image, Adriana Lima. :: JOSELE