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There’s some confusion this year over when summer starts in Spain. Is it the 20th or the 21st? Different calendars are marking different days! Well, It Depends. If we ask the Spanish Navy, they’ll tell you summer starts June 20 at 22:34. But if you ask the Astronomical Office of the IGN, they tell you it’s June 21 at 0:34. So….. it depends whether you’re at sea or not? Not quite. Summer is marked when Continue reading Sorry, when does summer start?
This winter in Almeria has been the driest for the last 80 years says the Spanish met office AEMAT. It technically “hasn’t rained” since last October in the Levante, meaning the dams are way down on where they should be for the year.
We were in Mojacar on Friday evening and so decided to visit the Pirate Market on the so-called “south beach”. No idea when it was rebaptised the “South beach of Mojacar”, but hey, go with the flow. And let me tell you, not much law breaking was going on there. The “pirates” were as respectful to Rosmari’s noise law as you could hope for. It was basically a bog standard medieval market, rebranded as a Continue reading Mojacar’s Pirate market – not much lawbreaking going on there!