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I have decided to stop maintaining this blog, the associated Facebook page and the Memorias de Almerimar Facebook page. To give me more time to focus on other aspects of my life here in wonderful Almerimar.

Thanks to all of the readers over the years. Plus many thanks to all the people who have provided information to publish on here over the years. Your efforts have been much appreciated.

For the moment I am just going to leave the site dormant. In the longer term I may convert it to an archived site. Or alternatively I might choose to remove the site from the internet. Depending on the amount of effort involved in maintaining an archive site.

I am also not yet sure what I will do with the Almerimar Today Facebook page.

The site is based on the Joomla content management system and uses a number of 3rd party applications on top of the Joomla core software. I would like to thank all of the people who have spent a lot of time developing and maintaining these products. Without them this site would not have existed.

Goodbye from here,

John Woodhead

The article here on the Diario de Almería site has some information about overseas sales of fruit and vegetables produced in Spain.

Our province is the biggest exporter of fruit and vegetables in the country.

Read More for a Google translation of the article.

The article here on the La Voz de Almería site has some information about the province of Almería and tourism.

Read More for details.

Our local windsurfing 3 time world champion, Victor Fernández has signed up for another year of sponsorship by El Ejido.

The article here on the Ideal site has the details.

Read More for a Google translation of the article.

UD Almería got their first point of the 2022/2023 season in La Liga Santander last night. With an away draw 1-1 against Elche.

Reasonably early in the match Sadiq had a clash of heads with one of their defenders. This is not shown in the highlights mentioned below.

Soon afterwards Sadiq scored with a header from a corner. I am not sure whether the head bandage helped or hindered him when he headed the ball into the net.

Not long after that they got an equaliser. So it was 1-1 at half time.

Throughout the game both sides had quite a few chances.

It looks like Ramazani was lively again last night. I think he will be sold before the end of the transfer window. To help allow us to register the long queue of players who cannot play at the moment due to financial fair play.

You can see some highlights here on YouTube.

The article here on the Ideal site has information about a pilgrimage on the beach recently.

Read More for a Google translation of the article.

The article here on the Ideal site has details of a 10K race taking place tomorrow night in Almerimar.

If you are interested in watching people running in this heat have a read of the translation for details.

Read More for a Google translation of the article (note - it was published yesterday - Thursday 18 August).

As you can see the bunker on the left of the fairway on hole 14 of the summer Master (1 & 2) course is being filled in. It is the bunker that is close to the 13th tee on the same layout. In the winter the hole is Blue 1 and bunker is close to the Red 9 tee.

This is one of a number of simplifications of a lot of holes at Almerimar this summer. Ready for when the course will be busy again over the winter.

There are bunkers being filled in, trees being removed, new orange (shorter) ladies tees being created and some new bunkers being created close to a couple of water hazards. The new bunkers are there on the edges of a couple of greens (summer Master (1&2) holes 11 and 12) to stop wayward shots going in the water hazards.

My guess is that when all the work has been done there will be some new slope tables as the course difficulty will be re-assessed. Plus it is likely that the companies providing golf sat-navs will have to re-map the courses as well.