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Spanish National Holiday: Wednesday, 12 Oct.
Fiesta Nacional de España is one of two “national days” of Spain and is held annually every 12 October on the day that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492. Source: https://publicholidays.es/fiesta-nacional-de-espana/
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Phoenix Club: Our social club is fully open so do pop in for a coffee and a chat, or browse our books at 4 for €1. We also have a selection of DVDs at various prices.
***Trips***
October
– 28th – Trip to Montefrio, Granada Province. Price €23 and includes, coach fare, tourist train and drivers tip.
November
– 4th – Trip to Gib €20pp includes €1 for the driver. Do remember that we have just 3 pick ups usually and we return from Gib at 16.30
– 17th – Wolf Park in Antequera €23pp includes guided tour
– 25th – Black Friday in the Nevada Centre, Granada €15pp – Hit the sales.
December
– 2nd – Trip to Gib €20pp includes €1 for the driver. Do remember that we have just 3 pick ups usually and we return from Gib at 16.30.
– 7th – Trip to Estepa with a full programme of visits to include:
World of chocolate
La Estepena – A city made of Chocolate
Mantecados Gamito – Speciality sweets and biscuits
Tourist train
Guided tour of Estepa Castle
Price TBC
– 13th – Mrs Miggins home bake sale, orders taken now for Christmas cakes and puds, mincepies, sausage rolls, meat pies and curries.
– 21st – A trip to see the festive Christmas Lights in Malaga city. €10pp and first pick up at Algarrobo Lidl at 17.00
– 14th – Cirque du Soleil on Ice in Malaga – Price TBC.
– 23-27th – Christmas in Hotel Las Palmeras, Fuengirola. The price is €240pp based on 2 sharing a double room and single occupancy is €320. The price includes Full board hotel accommodation, coach fare and tips.
For further information, please contact Gail on 951067723 / 626370695 or email phoenixsocialclub@yahoo.co.uk for more information or check out our FB page
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Bio Beach Restaurant – El Morche:
– Summer is officially over and the September Solstice is behind us. But the good times with great Bio Beach programs are still many to come our way! Do you like the Music of the Mid-Sixties?? If yes, then join us in a couple of weeks at Bio Beach on the second Wed. of Oct. for the U3A Bio Beach lectures Series!! By popular demand, on Oct. 12th at 11 am, Ray Sullivan will present his absorbing and heel-kicking taped musical program that most U3A members, who know him, will not miss! It is entitled “How Merseybeat conquered America’s pop charts in 1964/65”: Here is what the speaker, Ray Sullivan details about his program: “My talk charts the state of the British pop scene thru to the Merseybeat explosion of 1962/64 and the subsequent British invasion of America, spearheaded by The Beatles and The Searchers. The music has been recorded on c.d. and there are 24 tracks. The presentation lasts just under 2 hours with an interval of approx. 20 minutes. Clapping, singing, and dancing are encouraged and a fun time will hopefully be had by all.”
– These U3A programmes are free, just order refreshments. We belong to U3A, (http://www.u3aaxarquia.com/) and these social, educational, and stimulating mornings are presented in an effort to attract more members. Bio Beach Restaurant is located on the El Morche beachfront promenade (right behind the church). We look forward to seeing you there! For more info contact norma2kk@aol.com
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Sala Trinchera (Malaga) Anniversary Party: Saturday October 15th Music by Pronto and Info from 21:30. This year La Trinchera celebrates 10 years of music so we’ll be there to rock on their birthday. Get ready for more than two hours of rock & roll! Get your ticket now! Calle Parauta, 25, 29006 Málaga
Information & Tix: https://www.wegow.com/es-es/conciertos/10-aniversario-sala-trinchera
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Craft beer festival ‘Festibeer’: 14 to 16 October
Plaza de Espana, Alhaurín de la Torre
Concerts will be carried out by Sonoproject on Friday; on Saturday at noon DJ Javi Carrera will perform and at night Comando G; and on Sunday it will end with Franc de Luna.
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BluCee Real Estate: Exciting news – the building licence for our new office in Torre del Mar has been approved. We’re just waiting for the water and electricity to be connected and then renovations can begin.
– Although the office is not open yet we have had a very busy summer, and autumn is so far just as busy. We reached our sales target for 2022 in July and we’ve nearly doubled that target already and it’s the end of September.
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Endesa Luz factura: Can anyone explain what is meant by the entry in my electric bill under Varios and is it a one off payment or has a kWh gone up to € 0,349238 €/ kWh.?
Under Varios: “Costa tope del gas RDL. 10/2022. 653 kWh x 0,148377 €/ kWh. €96,89”
Under “Energia”: I used 653 kWh and was charged 0,200861…i.e. €131,16.
Previous months bill was approx. half this months bill for 600 kWhs.
My bill is made up of 22 different items.
Reply to: John. Torrox
crumlin4 at yahoo dot com
(I believe this is the new “gas” charge to compensate the power companies for their losses due to the price cap on gas, called the “Iberian Exception”. See this article, https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/enerselves/news/news-article/14992/what-is-the-iberian-exception/ Forward replies to DigameXtra if you like. -Ed.)
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SPAIN
Flavia Sabora- Lost Roman town is rediscovered under a crop field in Spain:
– Scientists from the Geodetection Unit at the University of Cádiz (UCA) have identified the layout of what appear to be streets, public spaces and even thermal baths or a nymphaeum in El Carrascal, a rural crop-growing area on the outskirts of Cañete, the name of which is thought to derive from the Spanish word for spring or spout. Through the use of drones, georadar and data-processing using computer software – a technique known as non-invasive archaeology – the researchers have managed to scan the subsoil across an area of more than two hectares, under which the entire layout of a possible Roman town appears. “It is too large to be a village and too small to fit the profile of a large classical Roman city. It fits more with the concept of a small town, a civic, religious and administrative center that served a larger rural area,” says Lázaro Lagóstena, a professor of ancient history and head of the UCA Geodetection Unit who for decades has specialized in the study of landscapes and ancient rural areas. Full article: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-10-07/flavia-sabora-lost-roman-town-is-rediscovered-under-a-crop-field-in-spain.html
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October 7, it was 451 years since the Battle of Lepanto- Spain saved the Western Greco-Roman-Judeo-Christian Civilization by defeating Islam:
– Most people are told in school that in the year 1492 the Spanish, led by the “Catholic Monarchs”, Isabel and Fernando, managed to defeat the last king of Granada and put an end to the presence of eight centuries of Muslims. in the Iberian Peninsula, which had begun in the year 711.
– What students are told in primary education (also in secondary and university education) is a half-truth, because it was later, after more than a century, when the full expulsion took place, when the Spanish overcame the followers of Mohammed (the fallacy is also told, the great lie of the “peaceful and cordial coexistence of the three religions of the book”, Muslims, Jews and Christians), it was in 1609 when Felipe III decreed the expulsion of the Spanish Moriscos, after more than a century of “goodness” and trying to solve what had no solution, with hot cloths, after countless rebellions, among which, the most important were in the Alpujarras of Granada and Almería, which they were finally put down in 1571.
It was in the 17th century when the Muslims were definitively expelled from Spain to North Africa, although many ended up hiding, camouflaging themselves among the Christian population, mainly for economic reasons, since they did not have the money to be able to leave, and they ended up “Christianizing themselves”. It is estimated that some ten or fifteen thousand Moriscos remained among the population of the kingdom of Granada.
Before the victory over Islam took place in Spain, it was also necessary to defeat those who helped the Muslims who were in Spanish territory, from the other side of the sea, in the battle of Lepanto, on October 7, 1571. Full article: https://www.voziberica.com/ayer-7-de-octubre-se-cumpliern-451-anos-de-la-batalla-de-lepanto-espana-salvo-a-la-civilizacion-occidental-greco-romana-judeo-cristiana-derrotando-al-islam/
NERJA
Ecologists denounce the works in the area of the source of the Maro river: {Translation, summary}
– The Gabinete de Estudios de la Naturaleza de la Axarquía (GENA-Ecologistas en Acción) has this week lodged a complaint with the Territorial Directorate of the Environment of the Junta de Andalucía in Málaga about land development works for irrigation above the source of the river Maro in Nerja.
– According to the environmental group, they had observed in the area around the source of this spring in Maro, “significant earthworks have been carried out this year above the spring, with possible consequences for the quality of the water”.
– GENA-EeA have sent a letter in which they point out that “the plot in question has been subjected to major earthworks to achieve a large flattened surface, incorporating earth into the rocky areas (karstified limestone), which has been achieved by means of numerous lorry loads of this material, This is far from being a ‘minor work’, and should have been considered a ‘major work’, referring to the permit which was allegedly obtained for the work in question, which, according to them, ‘was even approved for the easternmost part of the plot, and yet the earth filling has been spread over the whole plot’.
– Furthermore, they add that the plot subjected to this earthworks “has invaded the Cañada Real de Motril-Nerja (of some 70 m legal width), as well as closing it off by means of the fence built (thus preventing passage), which contravenes the regulations on Vías Pecuarias”. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/ecologistas-denuncian-acondicionamiento-a-regadio-en-la-zona-del-nacimiento-del-rio-maro/
MARBELLA
German countess Gunilla von Bismarck, who helped put the Costa del Sol on the map- ‘Marbella had more glamour in those days’:
If one were to put a face to the golden era of Marbella it would be hers. Now, however, “you come and you don’t know anyone,” says the leader of the world-famous ‘jet set’. Some quotes…
–Has the concept of celebrity been devalued, do you think?
–G: There are no great stars nowadays. I don’t know who the celebrities are today, so they can’t be that famous.
–They’re known as influencers today.
–G: That is something I don’t understand and I don’t want anything to do with it. I love nature, fun people, songs, music, animals and people who try to change the world, especially the era we are living in, which is horrible. So for me an influencer is not a profession, it’s a joke.
–Do you think Marbella paid too high a price for constant exposure and the excesses of that golden period?
–L: No, it hasn’t paid any price at all because Marbella has become an incredible town and before it was just a seaside resort. Don’t forget that now it has 150,000 voters or more. Photo: Daniel Maldonado/SUR
Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/lifestyle/marbella-more-glamour-20221007095224-ntvo.html
UK
Football fans with banning orders must hand over passports ahead of World Cup: Violent and abusive football fans in England and Wales will be prevented from travelling to the World Cup in Qatar, starting next month. If any of the 1,308 people with banning orders wish to travel to other countries from 10 November until the end of the tournament they will need to seek permission to hold on to their passports and be subject to checks. Full article: https://news.sky.com/story/football-fans-with-banning-orders-must-hand-over-passports-ahead-of-world-cup-12716153
HEALTH
Florida Finds Link Between mRNA Vax And Heart Failure – State Surgeon General now recommends against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for males ages 18-39 years old:
– Found 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.
– In the 28 days following vaccination, a statistically significant increase in cardiac-related deaths was detected for the entire study population.
***From official Florida gov’t document, pic below***
“Guidance for mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines, October 7, 2022”
– This analysis found there is an 84% increase in the relative
incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination. Individuals with preexisting cardiac conditions, such as myocarditis and pericarditis, should take particular caution when considering vaccination.
– With a high level of global immunity to COVID-19, the benefit of vaccination is likely outweighed by this abnormally high risk of cardiac related death among men in this age group.
– The State Surgeon General now recommends against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for males ages 18-39 years old.
***Individuals and health care providers should also be aware that this analysis found…***
– Males over the age of 60 had a 10% increased risk of cardiac-related death within 28 days of mRNA vaccination.
– Non-mRNA vaccines were not found to have these increased risks among any population.
– The Department continues to recommend against use in healthy children and adolescents 5 years old to 17 years old. This now includes recommendations against COVID-19 vaccination among infants and children under 5 years old.
Lead article: https://alachuachronicle.com/state-surgeon-general-dr-joseph-a-ladapo-issues-new-mrna-covid-19-vaccine-guidance/
Official Florida Announcement: https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221007-guidance-mrna-covid19-vaccines-analysis.pdf
The Study: https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221007-guidance-mrna-covid19-vaccines-analysis.pdf
SPORTS
F1 News- Verstappen crowned champion after cruising to Suzuka win: Max Verstappen coasted to victory in a rain-curtailed 2022 Japanese Grand Prix, while a post-race penalty for Charles Leclerc meant that the Red Bull driver also succeeded in clinching his second consecutive world championship. Leclerc crossed the line in second under intense pressure from Verstappen’s Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez, only to be handed a five second penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage at the final corner. Full article: https://f1i.com/news/456562-verstappen-crowned-champion-after-cruising-to-suzuka-win.html
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Mery Perello & Rafael Nadal become parents to baby boy: The news, along with the name of their firstborn, is yet to be confirmed by Nadal’s team. Multiple outlets reported the baby is named after Nadal. Photo: Nadal Foundation. Full article: https://www.tennis.com/baseline/articles/reports-mery-perello-rafael-nadal-become-parents-baby-boy-rafa-mallorca
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UEFA EURO 2024 qualifying draw: Source, https://www.uefa.com/euro-2024/draws/
OTHER
About 80 Moai statues affected by a fire on Easter Island: “There is irreparable damage”: The flames, now controlled, hit the quarry where the ancient volcanic stone statues were made. Of the 416 stone statues erected in that area, 20% have suffered some damage as a result of the fire. Full article: https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-10-09/about-80-moai-affected-by-a-fire-on-easter-island-there-is-irreparable-damage.html
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Petrol Prices – Updated daily: These are the fuel stations in Malaga province with the lowest prices. The price data for 95 and 98-octane petrol and diesel fuel is updated every day. See it here:
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Weekly Markets
Monday: Torrox Costa
Tuesday: Nerja, Salobrena
Wednesday: Rincon de la Victoria, Algarrobo Costa
Thursday: Velez Malaga, Torre del Mar, Frigiliana
Friday: Almunecar, Salobrena, La Herradura- Summers only
Saturday: Competa, Mezquitilla@Algarrobo behind the Sala Ottowa
Sunday: Velez Malaga, Nerja Car Boot
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Nerja 952 524 519
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