If you live in or around Benalmadena and Arroyo de la Miel or you intend visiting next year please take a couple of moments to visit our forum and register - We are running a free to enter draw whereby you could win free drinks in any of our featured bars or restaurants.
Click on the link below for further details
The draw was made at JJ's in Arroyo de la Miel and the winners were as follows:
!st: Digger - who hasn't told us where he is from
2nd: jimhatt2 - from Paisley
3rd: jh4x - from Preston
and in case any of them fail to claim we drew a reserve
ClareandMark: from Heathrow
Congratulations to the winners, who need to contact me to confirm where they want to spend their winnings.
and commiserations to our losers, thanks for joining our forum, please continue using it and contributing whenever possible.
You may have noticed the inverted umbrellas on our weather chart over the last few days. These winds are known as the Levante and have scoured the sand from many of the beaches along much of the Costa del Sol, including I am afraid Benalmadena.
The Ayuntamiento have already promised to have it replaced before the Easter holidays, lets hope that they are true to their word.
The last few days in and around Arroyo's smaller bars (including the spanish operated) has been quite amusing. Some decided to be non smoking and allow children and others elected to come down on the side of the smokers and forgo children and food. Then rumour began to run rife and now virtually all of them have reverted to pre Jan 1st 2006 and are allowing smoking, serving food and permitting children.
It seems that the new law actually says that bars of under 100 sq m can be smoking bars and as long as children under 18 are accompanied by their parents they are allowed inside. Although they must post a large (at least A3) black bordered sign on the door stating their position in spanish (at least spanish)
We will see what changes over the next few days or weeks
At the same time our forum was hacked we also lost our sister site http://www.freecostaclassifieds.com which at the time was carrying well over 100 classified ads.
It has taken me a while but I have restored the site using CGI instead of the seemingly more vulnable php but we have to start all over again as the ads were lost in the hack.
If you have any thing to advertise or you need anything that relates to the Costa del Sol, the service is FREE and I hope will soon be filling with useful ads
Cheers,
John
