This morning Jacqui and I popped down to the golf club to watch a little bit of the Spanish senior professional golf competition.
Looking at the weather forecast for the next few days it appears that the golfers might only get a single day of play instead of three. Fingers crossed for a late change in the weather.
When I went down to play in the Pro-Am competition yesterday I spotted the poster above on the noticeboard in the clubhouse. As you can see there is a windsurf competition scheduled for early 2020.
The Spanish professional senior golfers are getting some OK weather today for the first day of their competition. However there is wind and rain forecast for tomorrow. Plus a windy day on Saturday. So I think the competition might be cut back to just 1 day.
I was doing all sorts of stuff in the marina and elsewhere this morning. Including visits to 2 banks, a Chinese shop, the great dentist behind the Galley and the doctors.
As you can see, while down there I took a picture of the new frontage of La Plaza. It looks nice.
In addition, I was walking round Darsena 2. There were 3 different companies doing work on the frontage of shops on the east side of the Darsena. It looks like it is slowly changing from being a bit of a wasteland.
You can see a few more photos in the Gallery.
This morning I was down in "the square" sorting out the details of the FGS Woodsly Cup 2020 prize giving dinner. The dinner will take place at La Plaza on the evening of Friday 31 January 2020.
While there I spotted that La Plaza is nearly ready to open again. THe was furniture being installed in the terrace area outside. Also, there was furniture in place in the much bigger indoor area.
It looks to me that it will probably reopen in the next few days,.
Irene from the tourist office has provided me with information about this painting exhibition in the port tower in December 2019 and January 2020.
It is that time of year again. Last Wednesday the White course was closed so they could paint the greens. Today the Red and Blue courses are closed.
The grass on the new greens goes dormant in the winter. So they paint the greens green to make them look a bit better.
Jacqui and I were walking down to an El Ejido Bowls Club prize giving dinner at Ralph's in the square last night. On the way down I took a few photos of the Xmas decorations.
The article here on the Diario de Almería site describes plans for a modernisation of the Almería football stadium. The aim is to have the stadium open again by September 2020. My guess is that some preparation work might be done during this season. However I guess that the bulk of the work will be done in summer 2020.
The original stadium can be seen in the bottom half of the photo above. At the moment there are temporary stands on the running track behind the goals. It looks like these will be removed. With the new roof covering what was the running track when the stadium was used for the Mediterranean games in 2005. The idea is to keep the sun off the people in the stands.
A lot of fans had hoped that the pitch would be lowered. However this work is not being proposed as it would take too long.
Read More for a Google translation of the article.
