The article here on the Diario de Almería site has details of an interesting event taking place this coming Thursday night. Gourmet food and music in Almerimar. As part of this years El Ejido theatre festival.
Read More for a Google translation of the article.
If you are interested in stuff to do with old police forces this is for you. There is an exhibition of 175 years of uniforms of the Guardia Civil in the town hall in El Ejido. So says the article here on the town hall website.
Read More for a Google translation of the article.
Further to the article here from November last year about changes to two motorway junctions close to Almerimar. The article explained that work would take place on the 409 (Almerimar/Copo) junction and the 411 (Las Norias) junction in 2019.
Work has now started on the 411 junction. There are signs on the motorway saying that the Las Norias exit is closed and to use other exits to get to Las Norias. I was driving that way this morning. It is OK to take this exit then head north towards the eastern end of El Ejido. However the turning south towards Las Norias is now closed. While the improvement work takes place.
As yet, there is no disruption at the 409 (Almerimar) junction. Mind you, a friend told me a week or two ago he saw a machine perhaps drilling some holes in the ground near the junction. So perhaps work has started on the foundations for the new bridge that is going to be built. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
The article here on the Ideal site has details of a painting exhibition in the tourist office in Almerimar. The paintings are on show until 17 June 2019.
Read More for a Google translation of the article.
Yesterday (7 June 2019) we played another FGS Friday competition playing twice round the Master 3 (Classic) course. This week hole 7 was shortened by around 150m. So it was playing like a par 3. As the pond between holes 7 and 8 was being extended down the 7th fairway. So it was not safe for people to play off the normal tees on hole 7. As we could perhaps hit the workmen with our golf balls.
All of the sand and earth being excavated was being used to fill the greens on the main Master 1&2 course.
Most of the greens on the back 9 of the Master course now have new sand/earth on them. Ready for planting the new grass. The photo above is of the practice green. A lot of the greens on the back 9 are in a similar state.
I think that the latest sand and earth being excavated on the Master 3 (Classic) course is now being used to do something similar on the front 9 greens of the Master course.
You can see more photos of the course from yesterday in the Gallery.
Yesterday we paid a visit to the indoor market in El Ejido for lunch with a couple of friends. We have been having lunch there once in a while for around the last four years. Following another friend, Shaun P, telling us about the experience.
I will not go into details in this article. Instead I will just provide a link to an article here that I wrote when we went there in 2015.
Around a year later one of the people who was working in the tourist office at the time sent me the information here. This is about a similar experience that you can have at the indoor market in Santa Domingo. This is on the right hand sign on the way in to El Ejido. Not far past the school on the right hand that is quite away beyond Lidl. As yet, I have not tried out this place. However others have told me it is good fun as well.
In the last few weeks I have been speaking to various people about new property being built in Almerimar. It appears that the vast majority of the new builds are houses rather than apartments. As I believe that there are quite a lot of apartments already for sale in Almerimar. I am not sure but I think part of the desire for more houses is that Almerimar is slowly becoming more of a dormitory town for El Ejido.
The photo above that I took a few days ago got me thinking about this subject. When I get some spare time I will probably go around town and take some photos of the various development sites.
On the far right of the photo above close to the top you can see an urbanisation with I guess more than 70+ new houses close to completion. To the right of those white buildings I think you can just see two cranes. This is one of the few developments where some apartments are being built. The builders look to be finishing off a half-built development that has not been touched for a long time. As well as the apartments I think there are 5-6 houses being finished in that area as well.
Just over half way up on the left hand side of the photo you see the fairway and green of the 2nd hole on the Master 3 (Classic) course. Just out of shot, close to the tee of this hole the first of a number of houses is currently under construction. I have been told that some more houses are also under construction between the golf course and the sea in this area.
Closer to the original part of town there are developments going on as well. For some time there have been houses under construction on the right hand side half way down on the road into Almerimar.
Another new complex of houses is being built on the land between the D´Bar towers and the cliff.
Plus, some time ago I saw an advertising hoarding near Mercadona promoting the development of some new property on a now vacant part of the Velas Blancas urbanisation.
From the above it appears that there is an increase in demand for new property in Almerimar. Particularly houses.
Earlier today Jacqui and I popped over to Playa Serena to sort out some plans for playing some summer golf there. On the way back I decided to take a few photos from the cliff.
Two things to notice:
- You can see that the greens on the Master course are being replaced
- If you look carefully you can see that there is a lot of new property being built at the moment (I will write a little more about this sometime soon. When I have a bit more free time.)
If you click on each photo you can zoom in and see the image in a bit more detail.
