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If you are wondering why we have not posted much here the last few days there are a few reasons. We have been watching the Ryder Cup and out telephone and internet has been off since Saturday evening.

We also managed to squeeze in a round of golf yesterday as well. The course is in pretty good shape apart from the greens. They were tined and top dressed last week. This important work is necessary to prepare the greens for the winter but it will leave them a little slow and bumpy for at least another week or so I think.

On the internet side of things, Movistar acknowledge there is a problem and I know it is not just our apartment as I tried ringing others nearby on many occasions. It is almost 2 days now without a phone or broadband so pretty poor service.

An interesting article here on the Costa Almería News site.

After having had a look at the news for the Málaga, Almería and Murcia area of Spain it looks like we got away lightly.

We had a couple of very heavy downpours in Almerimar yesterday and have had a bit of drizzle today. Although it is clearing up a bit now.

There have been people killed, motorways closed and cars piled one on top of each other by the flooding elsewhere in the region. The picture above is from the Ideal site.

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Jacqui was driving down to the marina when the heavens opened this morning. When she got there she phoned me to say she was sitting in Algarbe having a cup of coffee to warm up.

While there she was told that they were cooking migas because it was raining. She said that she had been told it was a tradition to do so and I should look it up on the internet. So here is a link to something about this same custom in Murcia.

The picture above is at the end of the first downpour around 9am this morning. The next picture is from around 11am after we had got back from cancelling  Friday golf.

The final picture was around 2-3 minutes after the one above and shows the worst of the rain passing through. All 3 were taken out of the window in our living room.

Hopefully this will help fill up the reservoirs a little.

So says the article here on the Ideal site.

Read More for a Google translation of the article.

The article here on the Ideal site explains that although summer tourist levels were OK this year El Ejido needs to do something to attract visitors at other times of the year.

Proposals include a focus on golf and agritourism.

The general opinion of the golfers we know is that for the golf side to work well the course will need to be maintained to a very high standard on a continuous basis.

Read More for a Google translation of the article.