Preparations for some Event

Throughout the latter part of the week, we noticed a number of jobs being undertaken by Ayuntamiento workers, obviously in preparation for some event, which we assumed was Semana Santa (Easter). However, as the week-end approached, the numbers of workers increased and the pace became more frantic.

Thursday saw the start of digging 4 points of a “star” on the fountains roundabout at the bottom of the road. On Friday they were still digging the last 2 points, and a team of 5 turned up to paint the wall of the derelect house at the end of the road facing the roundabout. I asked them if they were going to paint the ruin, but they just laughed…..

Planting out the newly created beds commenced on Friday afternoon, as did the tidying up of the building sites around the roundabout, including removing sand, bricks and other building materials. As we were leaving the house to catch the bus to Coin for the SACAB, we saw a Police car stop to look at our pile of sand (that Roberto has deliberately left, and charged for it, so it is technically J’s !), and making a note in their log.

On Saturday, police road blocks were strategically placed on roads leaving the roundabout, and parking restriction notices also appeared. We had planned to buy a fridge freezer and any other furniture bargains we saw at the Fuengirola market, and decided to leave them in the car if we were prevented from driving to the house.

In the event on our return, the Police-woman on the road-block let us through, on condition we drove back out after delivering the fridge/tv cupboard and Spanish chair which we scavenged from a rubbish bin in Fuengirola.

Saturday evening saw teams of workers painting road signs and markings, spray cleaning the roundabout, and JCBs flattening and landscaping banks and derelect land around the roundabout…….this was not for Santa Semana, it was for Sunday…..Domingo Pasion (Passion Sunday).