Train Connection
The motorway, or autovía, if you prefer, is still not complete and already our illustrious politicians are bickering over a long-promised train link between the provincial capital and Motril Port.
Mass transport, many would argue, is the solution to our mobility, contamination and transport-congestion problems, so such a train link, together with a coastal rail corridor, connecting with Málaga and Almería is quite a mouth-watering concept. Yet, it is not just an attractive alternative to reaching the coast from the hinterland; it is also a crucial necessity for our province’s poor-sister port.
Both Málaga and Almería ports, which enjoy motorway and rail communication must shudder at the though of Motril Port coming of ‘communications’ age. Both our neighbouring provinces lack the tremendous heritage pull of the Alhambra and the tourist pull of the Sierra Nevada and God forbid, they no doubt think, Granada ever getting equal terrestrial communications infrastructure!
At the beginning of last month, a political figure from the regional ruling party let slip that there would be no rail link for Motril Port, despite reiterated promises around elections time. The opposition parties and the business sector did some serious ‘simian defecation,’ and all hell broke loose.
The PSOE burnt political calories doing extraneous back peddling, claiming that the Secretary of State for Infrastructure for the Central Government, Victor Morlán’s comment (a freight-train link to the coast would be impossible and don’t even think about a passenger service) was not indicative of the Junta’s determination to bring such a link into being. The Councillor for Public Works for the Junta, Rosa Águilar, responded to questioning on the thorny subject during a parliamentary session that alternative routes were being studied but would not specify which. You see, Sr. Morlán said that the gradient would be just too steep and a lot of height had to be lost in to short a distance (700 metres in 50 km). The opposition pointed out that if you get a train up to Tibet, you sure as hell could get one down to the Costa Tropical.

Has It Rained?
Telling our readers that it has been raining continuously would be superfluous news, but what you ‘wetties’ might not know is how much in statistic values.
Take the case of Trevélez where 1,120 litres per square metre have fallen between the 18th of December (when the rains began) and the 18th of February, which is 50% higher than the rainfall collected during the whole of the previous year! Yes that’s right: 750 l/sq-m during 365 days, compared with 1,120 l/sq-m during just 60 days. A pluviometric year is measured from September to September, by the way.
For the rest of the province, the average has been a modest 468.8 l/sq-m, but which, in itself, is the most in over 30 years. Speaking with some locals, they put it at around 40, but let’s keep to the official reckoning. But talking of the locals, the elder generation have a saying that until the rocks weep, the ground hasn’t stopped drinking, which is the case now. All you have to do is look at any cutting, whether recently done or one having stood for decades and the layered rock facing is leaking water, copiously. In other words, the ground has reached and surpassed its maximum absorption capacity.
You want to know another interesting point? The water that is being shed from the province’s reservoirs, because they are reaching dangerous levels, is enough to supply the city of Granada for seven years!
Needless to say, the damage caused by flooding and earth movement has been considerable. Down Cádiz way, the motorway has disappeared under the water, thanks to the rivers breaking their banks, and only rooftops are visible. The rain in Spain falls mainly… So what is the Junta doing about it – issuing umbrellas & blotting paper? Nope, what they are doing is allotting 127 million euros to help repair the damage caused between the 21st of December and the 11th of January. Damage caused after that date will obviously have to await a later ‘aid package.’
Of the before-mentioned sum, 33 million is for agricultural damage. Around 2,274 kilometres of rural dirt tracks have been affected (that’s equivalent to driving from to Santander and back.) That sounds like as if every track has been taken out by the rain, but Andalucía has 50,215 kilometres of rural lanes, so the damaged section represent 5.4% of the total.

Bullfighters and Prostitutes
The fruit of a police operation in Cádiz and Málaga was the arrest of a bullfighter and members of his family for running a prostitution ring, Juan Pedro Galán, his sister and parents, were rumbled when the Guardia Civil followed up a tip off involving around 100 women that were being exploited in nightclubs all over the two provinces.
Operación Toscana is still ongoing, following the arrest of these 15 people and the discovery of half a million euros, hidden behind the wall of a jacuzzi in the home of the bullfighter’s parents, who ran the whole prostitution ring, together with their 39-year-old bullfighter son, Pedro, and 35-year-old daughter, Rocío.
The family, who ran the whole circus under the name of Galantería Hoteles, abused the prostitutes by making them work long hours and depriving them of over half their takings. They also fined the girls if they did not dress in a particular manner or were absent from work through sickness.

Teacher Attacked
A teacher, who was on corridor duty; i.e., one of the duties that teachers have to carry out during school hours when they are not actually teaching, spotted a lad climbing over the school fence, attempting to sneak in. The lad had been expelled from his own school and had decided to pay a visit to this neighbouring secondary school.
The teacher proceeded to tell the lad off, telling him to leave the area, but instead of climbing sheepishly back out, he beat the crap out of the teacher…
Not unsurprisingly, the teacher from IES Luis Bueno Crespo in Armilla (near Granada) reported the attack to the Guardia Civil and the school-teachers’ union expressed their total rejection of such behaviour and complete support for the victim. The union is also demanding that teachers be considered ‘public authority’ whilst carrying out their school duty, meaning that aggressors should meet the same severity of punishment as they would if they attacked a policeman.
No further information was cited in the original article concerning the attacker, probably because as a minor such information is restricted. He is probably receiving psychiatric counselling for the traumatic experience of getting blood on his fists, the poor little mite.

Bogus Student
A girl faked being the victim of extortion to cover up the fact that for the last eight years she had not been studying at university, as her parents supposed. Yep, for eight long years, Mum and Dad had been coughing up each month for her to attend university, paying for her accommodation etc, when in reality, she had never even begun her studies, bless her.
This 26-year-old lass had finished high school in Málaga and had announced that she was going to study pharmacy in Granada – the parents’ dutifully opened their wallet and purses. They continued to maintain her after she supposedly completed her university studies and knuckled down to study for the entrance exam into a public work post.
The parents’ peace of mind was shattered when she announced that her boyfriend was blackmailing her, threatening to post certain intimate photos of her on the Internet, if she did not give him money, or more accurately, if the parents’ didn’t provide the money.
The girl must have kicked herself when they insisted on marching her down to the local police station and denouncing the situation. Within no time, the police investigation blew the bottom out of her 8-year series of lies.
No only did she have to face her parents’ wrath, but she will also be appearing before a magistrate for filing a false statement before the police. The police discovered that not only was there no extortion; but that there wasn’t even a boyfriend!
The case is that the girl did begin university but soon dropped out, not letting on, preferring to live a subsidised life in Granada, far from her parents. Of course, when the university course concluded, she had a problem because upon lying to her parents that she had passed her studies and obtained her degree, the parents offered to set her up in her own chemist, which is why she invented the bit about studying for a public entrance exam and a cushy job as a state employee.
There was a limit to how long she could swing that one and after two years the parents were getting impatient, so she announced that she had passed the exam… whoopee! The parents were over the moon and accordingly turned off the money tap, however, she continued to withdraw cash using the credit card provided by her father during her studies.
When the parents asked her why she was still using the card, she invented the nasty boyfriend.

Mutual Stabbing
A young couple, both 19, decided that the best way to end their brief romance was to attack each other with sharp implements: he used a knife and she used some pretty impressive scissors.
According to the doctor’s report the lad had suffered a small wound to his side, where her scissors had ‘penetrated timidly.’ The lass had a 1-cm wound in her hand, scratches and a bruise. So it wasn’t exactly the Battle of Agincourt, was it?
Apparently he had turned up at her house in search of a present that had been left behind. One thing led to another and out came the knife and scissors. When the police arrived, alerted by a neighbour, they only found the girl and her hand wound. She said that she had stabbed her ex in the chest and he had been taken to hospital by his friends. Can’t help thinking that it would have been safer with a condom…

Autovía Work Stops
The Gorgoracha-Puntalón work ground to a stop when workers ran into unexpected, loose shale-type rock, which would double the cost and time needed to complete this controversial stretch, it was announced. Consequently, the Central Government decided that the only thing that they could do was pay off the construction company that was dealing with it and put the contract up for tender again.
The opposition party, the PP, consider that a lack of funds is the real reason behind it and that the ‘unexpected’ shale is just a convenient excuse to delay things until more lucrative times.

When trying to describe Anna Digesu’s work, the word that springs to mind most is ‘colour.’ Anna is a master colourist, using her expressive, fluid style to capture her figures in fleeting moments and with gentle poise. Working in oils, watercolors and in drawings, this exhibition brings together some of the best of Anna’s work over the past 32 years, the time she’s been living and painting in this area of Spain.

To see a preview of Anna’s work, please visit: http://annadigesu.wordpress.com. Anna is also a member of the business and social networking group WomenWorks. The next WomenWorks monthly meeting takes place on Friday March 5th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. For details and to join see: http://womenworks.ning.com. Also please mark in your calendars that the Almuñecar Women’s Group has their Informal Coffee Morning on Sat. March 13th at 11:00 a.m. and their Planning Meeting on Sat. March 27th at 11:00 a.m. Venue is Hotel Arrayanes Playa, Paseo de Cotobro 5, Epsylon 1, Almuñecar. To receive the group’s monthly newsletter, send an e-mail to almunecarwomensgroup@googlemail.com. Regular events include the following:

Sunday: Walking – subject to weather. Contact Stella at tandinspain2@yahoo.co.uk. (Write ‘Sunday Walks’ as the subject to avoid it being perceived as spam).

Monday: 11:00 – 12:00 Spanish conversation at intermediate level with Rosa at Bar Pinball. Shared costs; 12 euros.

10:00 1-hour Walk prior to Delgada Group meeting at Delfin Books. Weigh-in at Delfin Books at 11:00 a.m. then coffee at Italiana coffee bar near Sol Bank.

13:30-14:30 Singing at Look Its Music Academy on Calle Larache. 1-hour harmony singing. Shared cost 30 euros between the group (usually 3-4 euros per person).

17:00 Agua Gym at Santa Cruz resort.

Wednesday: 15:30 Spanish Language Class at Centro Social 10 euro per month.

Thursday: Line dancing at Clipper Bar in La Herradura 18:00 – 19:00. Cost is 5 euros per person.
If you have any interesting stories, personal profiles or future events for this column, please contact me at danish@seasidegazette.

First things to do
If the death occurs in hospital, the hospital administration will take care of the initial procedure. If the death occurs outside hospital, you should immediately call the Guardia Civil or the National Police. A Magistrate (Juez Forense) will have to come to authorize the removal of the body or to order an investigation, if he believes that there are suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.

If death was caused by a criminal act, there will be a full police investigation and this will inevitably delay the release of the body and the funeral ceremony. In either case, the doctor will issue a death certificate.

The first 48 hours
You should contact an undertaker (funeraría). Normally, in Spain the burial or the cremation will take place between 24 and 48 hours after death. If you need additional time for relatives and friends to come to Spain, this can be arranged at an additional cost. The undertaker will be able to assist you in most of the administrative procedures for either the ceremony or the repatriation.
Will and inheritance of Spanish assets
There are two possible situations:

1) If the deceased had a Spanish Will, the process should be relatively easy. All Wills in Spain are recorded in the Central Wills Registry in Madrid. You should contact a lawyer who will apply for a Certificado de Ultimas Voluntades, which shows whether there was a Will registered in Spain and a Certificado de Contrato de Seguros de Cobertura de Fallecimiento, which shows whether there were any insurance policies covering death. These have to be applied for by using special forms from the Ministry of Justice and a nominal fee has to be paid prior to sending the forms along with an original death certificate to the Ministry. The death certificate has to either be a Spanish or an International certificate, if not it has to be translated by an official translator and an apostille has to be attached.

2) If the deceased didn’t have a Spanish Will, the process to reclaim the inheritance could be potentially long and complicated, risking the loss of the Spanish assets, if things are not done in a timely manner. You should immediately contact a lawyer in Spain who will apply for the Certificado de Ultimas Voluntades. If the certificate is returned showing that there was no Will registered, then the process to determine the legal heirs will begin. This will lead to a declaración de herederos abintestato or declaration of intestate heirs.

Once either of the above has been completed, your lawyer will contact the notary to prepare the inheritance deeds (Escritura de aceptacion de Herencia). This document will have to be signed by all heirs or their legal representatives, stating that they accept the inheritance.

In order for the inheritance deeds to be correctly prepared you will need information regarding all assets, the deeds and last tax receipts for any property.

Fiscal matters
As from the moment of death, you have six months to:

Pay all Spanish inheritance taxes (these could be quite low if you are a Spanish fiscal resident). You cannot pay these taxes from the estate. However you can request a delay in payment or to pay in installments.

Inscribe the new owners of any property in the land registry.

Pay the municipal the capital gains tax.
The non-declaration of the inheritance within six months after the death could lead to high fines on top of the inheritance taxes.

Your lawyer will be able to assist and guide you through this painful but important process.

www.velascolawyers.com

Do you recall looking for your perfect home here in Spain and viewing over 40 properties and feeling you have spoken with every estate agent in the town as well as those out of town? Taken advice from colleagues, friends, relatives as well as strangers on the street in attempt to find what you are looking for. You feel exhausted and are beginning to believe that what you require actually doesn’t exist. You are about to throw the towel in and stay where you are, as you begin to convince yourself the alternative was just a dream. But despite this, there remains a nagging doubt, just a fault line flicker, an avenue unpursued – maybe hope – you give it one last shot. You do one more search and there it is! Just what you have been looking for!

Hope means many things to many people. To some it is an incantation, to others it is fate or superstition; whilst to others it is a religion, culture or outward belief to keep on believing despite the odds. Psychologist CR Snyder states “It’s exhilarating when you meet high hopeful individuals, how they think about life is infectious and they leave trails of energy and positive feelings wherever they go.”

We all know someone like that and possibly all aspire to be like that. Maybe the only difference between these inspiring, uplifting and positive people and Joe Average is they never give up on hope. On a personal level I believe high hopers procrastinate less, have less depressive symptoms and according to studies, have a higher pain threshold (twice in fact) than their less hopeful peers.

It’s important to remain realistic whilst being hopeful and that means facing the obstacles that might come up and formulating a plan to deal with them. As Snyder states, hope has two components: a map or pathway to get what you want and the motivation and strength to follow that pathway. Winston Churchill wrote: “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm,” I say to my clients, not that I compare myself to Winston or Snyder, but there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. I believe the difference between getting stuck and getting there is only a mindset. It has also been suggested that hope is different to optimism, which is a generalized expectancy that good things will happen, whereas hope in fact involves having goals, along with the desire and plan to achieve them.

Hope therapy focuses on looking at individual’s strengths and how to build on them in order to help people live up to their full potential. It differs from other therapies in that it looks more on simply learning to change a mindset, without much examination of what caused the negative mindset in the past.

The good news is that hope is something that can be developed in all of us. It involves learning from people who are doing very well and figuring out what hopeful people are doing right. And the great news is it seems to work – we can teach people how to be more hopeful.

The much criticized climate conference in Copenhagen on global warming has shown some results after all, since this autumn and winter has been the coldest and wettest for decades all over the world. I believe that Higher Powers decided to interfere.

Foreign resident and holidaymakers exasperate in this extreme wetness. Walking tours in the mountains must be cancelled and the golf courses are full of water hazards in places where there should not bee any, according to the scorecard. There is no question of lying on the beach, and many tourists return home just as pale as when they arrived. And what a disaster for the tourist business this must be, on top of the economic crisis.

The winter, school-holiday period will start soon, and finding something interesting to do for visiting children and grandchildren in these climatic conditions is a difficult task indeed. Watching video films, cooking delicious meals, playing games can be boring in the long run.
Complaining, however, leads nowhere. Better trying to be optimistic. There are a lot of activities on offer in Almuñécar, La Herradura, Salobreña and Motril, from flamenco, theatre, concerts etc. All you have to do is to obtain the monthly cultural programmes from the tourist information offices or on the Internet.

In the Casa de la Cultura in Almuñécar there is a fantastic permanent exhibition, Claves de Almuñécar, 3,000 Years of History of Almuñécar and La Herradura which has received more than 1,000 visitors since its opening in December last year. Here you can make a journey through history from the Phoenician period to our era. Claves de Almuñécar is an ambitious project that has succeeded to 100 per cent. The historical part is shown in installations using modern communication, sound and image technology, guiding the visitors through the milestones of the history. One part of the display contains information for tourists on what the town has to offer, as well as some projects that will be implemented in the future. The exhibition as a whole is very well planned, artistic and informative. Congratulations!

Why not put on your boots, take your umbrella, and take a stroll through town, to Parque de Majuelo, the fortress and the old town. You can also visit the outstanding aquarium in the Plaza Kuwait or admire the beautiful new statues along the Paseo del Altillo.

What affects my state of mind more than rain in these days is the bad performance Finns have shown so far in the Winter Olympics. Only one silver medal, (in half-pipe snowboard) whereas Sweden and especially Norway have taken several medals of different colours. I am green with envy.

Let’s hope we will be luckier in the remaining events, and that the sun will be shining again soon.

Firstly, we have a WHO that seems to have acted mainly to promote pharmaceutical products, the first of which, the vaccine, has been discredited to a degree that most governments – advised to order huge amounts – desperately try to wriggle our of their contracts with the pharmaceutical industry.

Should it not be of utmost public interest to trace back who advised the governments? Their decision has cost European taxpayers a fortune and I am wondering why there is no public nor media interest in clarifying decision pathways to date?

The second act of this drama unrolls, presenting the by-now-world-famous Tamiflu, live on stage – and, surprise, surprise, in a rather dim light. Millions of doses have been stockpiled by several governments to combat future pandemic influenza outbreaks. One can only assume the drug works. Or is it that it may not?

A team of Cochrane reviewers surveyed the literature on safety and efficacy of Oseltamvir (the generic name of Tamiflu) and its cousin, Zanamivir (Relenza). For pre and post-exposure prophylaxis against influenza both drugs were mildly effective. Treatment trials found that both drugs shortened duration of flu-symptoms by 12 to 24 hours – if taken early in the course of the infection.

The reviewers report that there are problems in evaluating Oseltamvir’s claimed ability to prevent complications of influenza – such as pneumonia or death. They found that the major study supporting such benefit is based on unpublished data belonging to the manufacturer Roche!This data were not made accessible for scientific scrutiny.

Other published studies had found no benefit. The reviewers found little evidence of harm from the drug (that’s something at least).
In conclusion: in healthy adults Tamiflu is tolerated well, has some
preventive efficacy and can shorten the course of a symptomatic flu, but only by one day. The preventative effect of flu complication remains hypothetical and in question (BMJ 2009 Dec 8).
These results do not really come as a surprise to those of us (doctors) who have long questioned the ongoing tamiflu-mania.
The manufacturer Roche is not happy though and has published two lengthy rebuttals to this analysis, stating that only ‘qualified’ researchers can access the data…? The highly reputable Cochrane Institute does not seem good enough for them As a consequence, independent researchers and editorialists have called for new global standards on transparency when it comes to drug testing.

What a laugh: if you look after your mother who has come down with the flu and you are smart enough to take a course of Tamiflu immediately, you will still get the flu, but instead of 7 days it will only last 6 and a half!

Should I as a Doctor recommend you take Tamiflu? And if so, why? Zillions of taxpayer’s bucks wasted!

As the official ‘gofer,’ his job is to help with just about anything, including driving athletes/officials around, arranging tailors for athletes, shopping up a storm, getting special guests accredited etc.

One of the highlights, so far, was during the rehearsal on Feb. 10th for the opening ceremonies. Lars was selected by the Danish Chef de Mission for the great honor of marshalling a delegation of distinguished, former Olympic athletes (who were offered this opportunity as stand-ins for the various delegations).

Now, if any of you watched the actual opening ceremonies on Feb. 12th, as I did (I must admit, I felt quite nostalgic and proud to be a Vancouverite that night) you know just how spectacular it was. Lars was made Flag-Bearer and asked to lead the Danish delegation through the entire stadium-route, right past Brian Adams, Nelly Furtado, Sarah McLachlan, K.D. Lang and many other celebrities, who were performing exactly as they would be on the official night. According to Lars, leading the group into BC Place in front of a crowd of 60,000 cheering people was quite the rush!

On opening ceremony night, his job was to lead the 37+ people from the Danish group from the Olympic Village right up to the gate where the delegations were filmed as they entered. Another highlight for Lars was assisting with the Team Welcome Ceremony for Denmark, which was preceded by a press conference, both of which had the attendance of HRH The Crown Prince of Denmark and Princess Mary. I can’t wait to hear more about Lars’ Olympic experience the next time I see him.

I know from my Danish network that the Danish speed skater, Cathrine Grave, and other athletes have expressed interest in meeting local Danes while they are in Vancouver. I am proud to say that my friends have risen to the task and have organized a ‘Celebrate-our-Athletes’ night for them, which takes place Friday Feb. 26th at a restaurant called Capones. I actually mailed out the invitation myself to the 100 or so Danes that I have on my Danes in Vancouver e-mail list (a social networking group that I started years ago). So, knowing that all who are on my list are young, active, and dynamic people, I can guarantee that the night will be an exciting one for the athletes. Hopefully, many new friendships will be formed – a shame I can’t attend myself. But one thing is certain, I will be glued to my TV screen watching the closing ceremonies which start at 17:30 Vancouver time (2:30 a.m. here) on Sun. Feb. 28th.

Bobby! Yeah! Got a new home with lovely, lovely David and Lynn in the Rio Seco. I stopped by to see if he was OK the other day and he looked at me as if to say, “Very pleased to see you Claire but go away!”
Still need homes for other dogs, have put them on the website,
www.perrossi.com if you’re interested.

Please, don’t call me and ask me to take any more dogs or cats, I’m at my limit and I can find enough myself, I’m so financially stretched as I also feed dogs all the way into town every day, along with the clan I already have. In the last six months I have been given four blankets, two bags of dog food and sold twenty worming tablets – times are hard for everyone. Two pregnant cats have turned up; I think my cats have been putting posters up around the Río Seco with directions to the food tree! So, more spaying after the kittens are born. Still need a shed for the cats to nest in, if anyone has one they don’t want.

We have good quality dog & cat worming tablets for sale at €1.50 each (from the vet €4 to €6 each). The whole €1.50 goes towards the upkeep of the animals.

Something new and exciting for all you people with your own mini rescue centre. We are having a fully qualified, British mobile vet visit us in Almuñécar two days a week and one day a week in La Herradura for the following:

Prices:
Yearly Rabies Booster €12.00
Full dog Booster & rabies €25.00
Full Cat Vaccinations & Rabies €30.00
Microchips €25.00
The full dog booster vaccine includes: distemper, parvovirus, adenovirus, parainfluenza, leptospirosis and rabies.
The full cat booster vaccine includes: calicivirus, herpesvirus, panleucopaenia, rabies and leukaemia.
Female cat spayed from €45
Male cat neutered from €30
Female dog from €70 to €90 depending on size
Male dog neutering from €45 to €65 depending on size
Call us to make an appointment. 607 235 572

I have someone learning to groom at present so anyone with a breed dog can have a free groom for the next two months, just call and make an appointment.
Finally, a tribute to my dog Bobby, who died last week. We rescued him from Nerja six years ago. He was a Pekinese cross and was about to be put down, as he had been re-homed several times and then returned. We think it was because he just couldn’t grasp the idea of going for a poo outside! He was OK with us, as we start our day so early because of the kennels, we usually managed to ‘cut him off at he pass’, so to speak. We’d have the occasional accident but we didn’t care because we loved him very much. He was a terrible thief, hated being groomed and anything you put on the ground he peed on it, immediately. He’s left a huge hole. He had a fantastic life here surrounded by people and dog friends. He was a very happy little chap.

Thursday18th



16.30 h. Tradicional Corrida de Cintas en la Calle Real amenizada por de la Agrupación Musical San José.
 (categories: children and adults).



18.30 h. Pasacalles y Ofrenda Floral a San José. Floral procession accompanied by a Rocio choir. Everybody is invited to participate by dressing in traditional flamenco custumes, bearing flowers. Starts off at the Civic Centre

20.00 h. Pasacalles a cargo de la Agrupación Musical San José y Encendido del Alumbrado del Ferial.

 Another procession, accompanied by the San José music band. The official lighting up of the festival lights.

22.00 h. Castillo de Fuegos Artificiales a cargo de Pirotecnia Martín. Firework display, synchronised with music

22.30 h. actuación del grupo de baile “Sabor Andaluz” y del Coro Rociero “Cosas Nuestras”.

 Dancing display

23.30 h. Verbena en la Caseta Municipal amenizada
por el grupo “Alalba” y “Orquesta La Tentación”. Traditional dance band in the municipal festival bar installations

Friday 19th



10.00 h. Alegre despertar y diana floreada, amenizada por la Agrupación Musical San José.

 Distress rockets going off and a musical band to wake everybody up…

10.15 h. Inicio de los Juegos Deportivos en el Club Las Palomas (Torneo de Tenis y Torneo de Ping – Pong.

 (self explanatory)

10.30 h. Muestra rociera de caballos en el Barranco de Las Tejas. (Si el tiempo lo permite). Weather permitting a horse and cart display 



12.00 h. SANTA MISA en honor a nuestro Patrón SAN JOSÉ, Acompañamiento Musical por el Coro “Bahía de La Herradura” dirigido por D. Roberto Ruggero. Ofrenda Musical a cargo de la Agrupación Musical San José.

 Official Mass in the village church, accompanied by the Bahía de La Herradura choir

16.30 h. Campeonato de Dominó en el Club del Pensionista.

 Domino championship in the pensioners’ club – expect fighting and plenty of blood (joking)

17.00 h. Exhibición de Doma y Carrera de Cinta a Caballo en la Playa del Carbón.

 Equestrian taming display

18.00 h. Actuación del Grupo de Teatro Infantil “Los piratas” que pondrán en escena la obra “En busca del tesoro” con mucha animación en la Caseta Municipal.

 Kiddies’ theatre plays in the festival installations

20:00 h. Solemne Procesión en Honor a Nuestro Patrón San José acompañada por la Agrupación Musical San José.
Itinerario: Salida del templo; C/ Canalejas, C/ Las Flores; C/ Real; Acera del Pilar; Paseo A. Segovia, C/ Eucalipto, C/ Alhambra; C/ Barranquillo; Encierro en el templo.

 Solemn religious procession through the before-mentioned streets, end at the church.

22.30 h. Verbena en la Caseta Municipal amenizada por los grupos “Alalba” y “Orquesta La Tentación”.

 Village dance bands at the festival installations

Saturday 20th



10.00 h. Alegre despertar y diana floreada, amenizada por la Agrupación Musical San José.

 Distress rockets going off and a musical band to wake everybody up…

10.00 h. Jornada de Escuela Deportiva de La Herradura, con la participación de los equipos de Fútbol Sala y Baloncesto del IES Villanueva del Mar en el Pabellón de Deportes y el equipo de voleibol femenino en el Polideportivo del CEIP Las Gaviotas (valederos para la clasificación de los Juegos Deportivos Provinciales).

 School sports tournament

10.15 h. Inicio de los Juegos Deportivos en el Club Las Palomas (Torneo de Tenis y Torneo de Ping – Pong.

 Self explanatory.

10.30 h. Muestra rociera de caballos en el Barranco de Las Tejas.

 Horse and cart display in traditional dress (Rocio)

10.00 h. Inicio de los Juegos Deportivos.

 More sports

16.30 h. Campeonato de Dominó en el Club del Pensionista.

 More brawling and blood… still joking

17.00 h. Juegos y Cucañas para los más pequeños en la Caseta Municipal.

 Kiddies’ Games in festival installations

19.00 h. Exhibición de Artes Marciales la Caseta Municipal de Feria.
Con el Club Kosho Ryu Kempo de La Herradura y el club de Kárate de La Herradura. Exhibición de aerobic y pilates de Gymnastic Sport Marian que realizará una muestras de ejercicios cardiovasculares. 

Martial arts display and aerobic & pilates gym

21.30 h. Actuación de las Escuelas de Baile “Alma Flamenca” dirigid por Olga Rodríguez.
Entrega del Premios del Concurso de Redacción “Virana” en la Caseta Municipal. Flamenco dancing display



22.30 h. Verbena en la Caseta Municipal amenizada por los grupos “Alalba” y “Orquesta La Tentación”. Knees up at the festival installations to the music of the village dance bands

Sunday 21st 



10.00 h. Alegre despertar y diana floreada, amenizada por la Agrupación Musical San José.

 More distress rockets to remind people that they’re having fun

10.15 h. Inicio de los Juegos Deportivos en el Club Las Palomas (Torneo de Tenis y Torneo de Ping – Pong.

 Self explanatory.

10.30 h. Muestra rociera de caballos en el Barranco de Las Tejas. (Si el tiempo lo permite) 

 Horse and cart display down at the barranco

11.00 h. Exhibición de Aeromodelismo en la playa de La Herradura.

 model aeroplane display on the beach

12.00 h. Paseo en Bici organizado por el Club Ciclista de La Herradura.

 bicycle procession around the village

14.00 h. Fiesta solidaria de la Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer.
* Paella donada por El Chambao de Joaquín
* Migas donada por El Chambao de Vicente

. Giant paella in benefit of the Cancer association

21.30 h. Actuación de la Escuela de Baile de María Gómez “La Canastera”. Dancing display by the pupils of María Gómez dancing school



22.30 h. Festival Flamenco a cargo de la Compañía de Ricardo de la Juana en el Caseta Municipal.
Espectáculo “Encuentros”
Al baile: Rai Benítez y Kika Quesada
Guitarra: Niño Carmelo
Al cante: Ricardo de la Juana, María Gómez “La Canastera” y asunción Heredia.
Flauta: Antonio Gómez “El Turri” Flamenco music and dancing festival



00:00 h. Traca (winding up firework display) Fin de Fiestas San José 2010



Sunday 21st



Fairground: 
DÍA DEL NIÑO.


Monday morning: Blissful silence…