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Daylight Savings Time:
Daylight saving time will arrive in Spain, as it does every year, on the last Sunday of March, allowing us to gain more daylight hours per day. It will be during the early hours of Saturday, March 29 to Sunday, March 30, 2025 when we will have to advance the clock one hour; that is, at 02.00 a.m. it will be 03.00 a.m. in our country.
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The return of Cool & Groovy: Friday, 28 March 8pm
Posada La Plaza in Canillas
The return of Cool & Groovy, no longer weak & wobbly and raring to go!
Come and share our first gig since our joint health scares (I was accused of oneupmanship!).
Madness, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Irish tunes on tenor banjo, all sorts of wonderful stuff including a full dance set. We also have Alexandra with some Irish dancing.
The weather looks to be set fair so call Posada La Plaza in Canillas for your table now, the fun starts at 8.00pm: 952553254 or 609167127.
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Flamenco de la Argentina: Sun, 30 March 7pm
Cervantes Theater, C/ Ramos Marín, s/n, Málaga.
A Latin Grammy award winning vocalist with a Cuban band performing performing flamenco songs with an Argentine twist. None of the info I found has the singers name. Time to get a new agent! Info & tix (€11/17/24/32): https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/agendaculturaldeandalucia/evento/concierto-de-argentina-en-el-teatro-cervantes-de-malaga
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Spring Concert- Mediterranean Chamber Orchestra:
Sunday, 30 March, 7pm
House Of Culture Granada Puerta, 19, 18690 Almuñécar
The overture of the concert could not be other than Vivaldi’s famous Primavera from his Concerto No. 1 in E Major, a work always heard and always loved. It will be followed by the Bachianas Brasileiras by Héctor Villalobos, of whom Alejo Carpentier said: he is one of the few artists of ours who is proud of his American sensibility and does not try to denaturalise it. For once, he is a palm tree who thinks like a palm tree, without dreaming of Nordic pines. After Eduardo Toldrá’s well-known work Vistas al Mar with the subtitle Evocaciones Poéticas, a work inspired by Joan Maragall’s poem La Ginesta, the concert will close with another Primavera, in this case Piazolla’s Primavera Porteña. An unbeatable programme that will delight the audience. Info & tix (€15): https://bravoentradas.es/es/events/concierto-de-primavera-orquesta-camara-mediterranea
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Pierre Huarniz Neo Quartet: Fri, April 4th, 8pm
Ventana Abierta Jazz Club, C/ Granada 3 (Hotel Plaza Cavana), Nerja
Pierre Huarniz, guitarist and Peruvian composer, will interpret an original repertoire with Jaume Miquel on the piano, Cote Calmet in the battery and Eric Kopetz on the double bass.
The proposal offers a contemporary vision of the song and improvisation, where a strong rhythmic identity stands out by merging Peruvian rhythms and influences that range from jazz, Latin music to alternative rock. Info & tix (€15/20): https://www.ventana-abierta.es/jazz.html
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Opera- Don Giovanni: Sat, 26 April, 8pm
Centro Cultural Villa de Nerja, C/ Granada 45, Nerja
A Teatro Lírico Andaluz presentation. Info & tix (€17adv/€20door): https://www.giglon.com/todos?idEvent=opera-don-giovani-teatro-lirico-andaluz
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SPAIN
More than 20,000 homes for sale in Spain are occupied by squatters- these are the worst-affected areas:
– Spain is a country with a large population, a saturated housing market and many illegal occupiers of properties. According to an analysis by real estate portal Idealista, 2.6% of the homes sold in Spain (20,464) have squatters in them. The phenomenon is becoming a more common issue.
– By region, this is most common in Gerona where 8.8% of houses on the market are occupied by squatters, followed by Murcia (5.5%), Seville (4.7%), Almeria (3.9%) and Malaga (3.8%).
– Looking at absolute numbers in cities, Barcelona leads the ranking with 723 squatted homes for sale during the fourth quarter of 2024, followed by Madrid with 644 homes in the same period. Murcia (390) is in third place, followed by Malaga (286 homes), Seville (272 homes), Valencia (243 homes), Palma (213 homes) and Alicante (176 homes). These eight regional capital cities alone account for 71% of all squatted homes for sale. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/homes-for-sale-with-squatters-20250323081948-nt.html
ANDALUCÍA
The reservoirs in Andalusia on Tuesday, March 25, 2025:
Source: http://www.redhidrosurmedioambiente.es/saih/parte/diario/embalses
AXARQUÍA
Board relaxes water savings measures for supply and irrigation in Mediterranean basins with alert in Almería and Axarquía: {Translation, summary}
– The Drought Commission of the hydrographic demarcation of the Andalusian Mediterranean Basins, which was held this Tuesday, has unanimously agreed to generally relax the saving measures in almost all its operating systems, both for urban water consumption and for agricultural irrigation, as a result of the significant improvement in the volumes stored after the rains of recent weeks.
– Currently, as detailed by the Andalusian Executive in a note, the volume of water stored in the reservoirs of the exploitation systems of the hydrographic demarcation of the Andalusian Mediterranean Basins amounts to 597.95 hm3, which represents 51.86 percent of the total capacity and 128.90 percent more than the volume of water stored on the same date last year (261.23 hm3).
– Thus, it has been approved to modify the measures adopted in the extraordinary commission held last December.
– In the Western Costa del Sol system, also in a normal situation and which does not have agricultural use, the maximum allocation for supply is increased from 225 to 250 liters per inhabitant per day.
– In the Guadalhorce-Limonero system (Malaga), in a pre-alert situation, the maximum allocation is increased from 200 liters per inhabitant per day to 225, while, in agricultural use, the irrigation volume is increased from nine to 30 hm3.
– In the Viñuela-Axarquia system, in an alert situation, but very close to pre-alert, it is increased from 200 to 225 liters per inhabitant per day for urban use and in agricultural use, the irrigation volume is increased from three to 12.8 Hm3 (2,000 m3 per hectare per month). This allocation will be supplemented with reclaimed water. Source, Spanish: https://www.europapress.es/andalucia/noticia-aprobada-unanimidad-relajacion-medidas-ahorro-abastecimiento-riego-cuencas-mediterraneas-20250325133825.html
MALAGA CITY
Priest hospitalized after being assaulted in the head in a Malaga square: {Translation}
– A priest, pastor of the church of the Amargura of Malaga, remains hospitalized after being assaulted last Monday in the Plaza de San Juan de la Cruz in the capital of Malaga by a man who allegedly hit him in the head causing injuries. {Update– the priest, Salvador Gil, who served in El Morche 2000-2008, was not wearing religious garb at the time. -Ed.}
– Municipal sources have told Europa Press that Local Police officers went to the scene after a request that took place this past Monday after 23.00 hours. In that notice, two priests asked for the assistance of the municipal agents, when reporting that after leaving a conference, a man had approached them and hit one of them in the head.
– The police officers conducted raids in the area without being able to locate the perpetrator of the aggression. In addition, they made an intervention report to the National Police so that this body is the one that opens an investigation into what happened.
– The Diocese of Malaga have told Europa Press that the pastor who suffered this aggression is currently hospitalized. Image: OpenAI. Sources, Spanish: https://www.europapress.es/andalucia/malaga-00356/noticia-hospitalizado-sacerdote-sufrir-agresion-cabeza-malaga-capital-20250325135009.html & https://www.axarquiaplus.es/hospitalizado-el-antiguo-sacerdote-de-el-morche-tras-sufrir-una-agresion-en-la-cabeza-en-malaga/
MIJAS
Elderly woman beaten up during burglary at her Mijas home:
– The incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday 19 March, although the injured woman was not found until later in the morning. It was a municipal worker who raised the alarm after finding the victim, an octogenarian woman, with her face covered in blood in her home in Mijas. As best she could, the elderly woman recounted that a few hours earlier, during the early hours of the morning, she had been beaten up by two thieves who had entered her home to steal her belongings.
– Allegedly, two foreign men broke into her home to rob her and beat the woman, who said that one of them had also tried to suffocate her by grabbing her by the neck, according to police sources. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/mijas-fuengirola/elderly-woman-beaten-up-during-burglary-her-20250325094928-nt.html
SPORTS
Football News- World Cup 2026 groups:
Spain’s match schedule
J1 4/09/2025 Bulgaria-SPAIN
J2 7/09/2025 Turkey-SPAIN
J3 11/10/2025 SPAIN-Georgia
J4 14/10/2025 SPAIN-Bulgaria
J5 15/11/2025 Georgia-SPAIN
J6 18/11/2025 SPAIN-Turkey
These are the 12 groups of four or five teams each that are part of the UEFA preliminary round for the 2026 World Cup:
Group A: Germany, Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Luxembourg.
Group B: Switzerland, Sweden, Slovenia, Kosovo
Group C: Denmark, Greece, Scotland, Belarus
Group D: France, Ukraine, Iceland, Azerbaijan
Group E: SPAIN, Turkey, Georgia, Bulgaria
Group F: Portugal, Hungary, Rep. of Ireland, Armenia
Group G: Netherlands, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Malta, Malta
Group H: Austria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, San Marino
Group I: Italy, Norway, Israel, Estonia. Moldova
Group J: Belgium, Wales, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein
Group K: England, Serbia, Albania, Latvia, Andorra, Andorra
Group L: Croatia, Czech Rep., Montenegro, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar
Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1881205/la-huelga-de-los-inspectores-de-pesca-pone-en-peligro-la-campana-de-la-almadrabas/
SPACE
The upcoming partial solar eclipse visible throughout Andalucía:
– During the morning of Saturday 29 March 2025 it will be possible to observe a partial solar eclipse across the whole of Andalucía. In Malaga city the eclipse will be visible from 10.43am to 12.22pm with the moment of greatest vision at 11.28am.
– During such an eclipse, the Sun should never be observed directly with the naked eye or with sunglasses. During a partial eclipse, the Sun is never completely covered by the Moon and therefore looking at it without safe and adequate protection can damage the eyes, just as it would on any other day when there is no eclipse. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/everything-you-need-know-about-the-upcoming-20250324075735-nt.html
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This Is Why I Refuse To Use Banks: In my case I was blocked from making any withdrawals from my savings account with €2200 in it for 8 months. No explanation, all I was told is the account was blocked and I would receive a letter that never arrived. Eventually had to pay a lawyer €600 to get my money back, no apology and no reimbursement for the lawyer fee. If you listen to the very beginning you will hear the name of the bank mentioned, Santander Bank. Seems like most people have a bank horror story. Episodes just like what you see in the video happen every day in Spain. I know of businesses that this has happened to as well. Imagine the restrictions they will put on your transfers and spending when they force the digital-Euro on us and take away the cash. Not only will they control your spending, there can be geo-restrictions, so you can only spend in your “15 Minute Cities” without advance authorization. Quick out of town trips will be impossible once Agenda 2030 is upon us. X Link
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2025 Holiday Calendars by town, click/tap to view:
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For other towns in Malaga Province, visit this website, click your town, then look for the post named “Calendario Laboral de ‘Your Town‘ 2025 “, click that to see calendar.
https://www.foro-ciudad.com/malaga.html
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:
https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/updated-daily-these-20220314114157-nt.html
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, Mercadillo de La Cala del Moral- Rincon de la Victoria.
Saturday: Competa, Mezquitilla@Algarrobo behind the Sala Ottowa
Sunday: Nerja Car Boot
Taxi
Nerja 952 524 519
Torrox: 952 531 030
Frigiliana: 952 533 231
Phone numbers for emergencies
Emergency Services.: 112
National Police: 091
Guardia Civil: 062
Ambulance: 061
Fire Station (Bomberos): 080
Emergency English Help Line: 902 102 112
Local Police
Torrox: 952 539 828
Nerja: 952 521 545
Frigiliana: 952 533 126
Torre del Mar: 952 549 238
Local/National News in English, The Sur: http://www.surinenglish.com/
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