The Junta is currently deciding the fate of 40 chiringuitos (beach bars) across Almería who want to open this year.
Of the 40, 8 are new ones that didn’t exist last year.
There are currently 70 beach bars installed on beaches across Almería; if the eight new ones are approved, we’ll have 78. 22 of them haven’t bothered to reopen this year; the other 12 have already got their permits.
All of which is a complicated way of saying that we’ll have 56 chiringuitos open this summer, if all goes according to plan.