Sit back my children and allow me to regale you with a tale of intrigue, friendship, backhanders and corruption, as it appears many of you don’t know about it.
During the end of summer, a story broke about how the Junta (which has been controlled since the transition to democracy unopposed by the PSOE party, and [...]
A brief overview of the history of the Levante Almeriense (part 2)
[Read part one of the Brief history of the Levante Almeriense]
On the 2nd of January 1492 Caliph Boabdil of the Caliphate of Granada surrendered to the Catholic Kings, Isabel & Ferdinand. As he rode with his royal procession towards the coast to embark back [...]
Well I never. Just read an interesting report about how Aguadulce owes its name to the incredibly pure springwater found in the area. Old timers remember how if you dug down in the sand on the beach you could drink the water found there.
An investigation by the National Institute of Colonisation in 1960 found an [...]
If El Toyo is “failing” - what future “Llano Central”?
There’s a report in La Voz de Almería today about how El Toyo, the large luxury tourism complex behind Almería Airport, first built for the Mediterranean Games in 2005 and now mooted as the template for the ambitious “Llano Central”, is failing, if not already failed.
Readers [...]
With the announcement yesterday by the Commercial Pilot Association that the investigation is “ruined”, and the attempted resignation of their representatives to the Air Investigation Board, the investigation into the Spanair Madrid -Canary Islands crash has descended into a complete farce.
The sole reason for establishing an Air Accidents Board is to find out the true [...]
It was exactly 100 years ago today that Nicolás Salmerón Y Alonso, Almerias most famous son (as people as saying today) died in Pau, France.
Born 10th of April 1838 in Almeria, to Francisco Salmeron Lopez, the town doctor and an noted free thinker of the age, and Rosalia Alonso Garcia, who later died in childbirth, [...]