Seaside Gazette

18/07/2025

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The Satirical Toast to Life on the Coast

17/07/2025

https://www.theseasidegazette.com/2025/07/115820/weather-fri-18th-tue-22ne/

July is being... well, July with its corresponding temperatures but the heatwave will slacken off next Tuesday. The forecast only goes that far, unfortunately

17/07/2025

https://www.theseasidegazette.com/2025/07/115811/the-bane-of-summer/

The Plan de Emergencia por Incendios Forestales de Andalucía (Infoca) was called into action to tackle a forest fire in Dúdar (Vega de Granada) yesterday.

17/07/2025

https://www.theseasidegazette.com/2025/07/115812/the-never-ending-mission/

The Guardia Civil, mountain-rescue team (GREIM) had to carry out two rescue missions yesterday; one in Otívar and the other in Sierra Nevada.

16/07/2025

facebook has now removed that post on a person saved from drowning off a Nerja beach as they consider it spam. It is now "under review," because I appealed, which means that nothing will be done to make them see sense that it was not spam because it still won't get a human to look at it. I do get so sick and tired of facebook that I am really considering just dropping this account altogether.

16/07/2025

https://www.theseasidegazette.com/2025/07/115799/stranger-in-a-strange-land/

We typically focus on a single wine in each review, but on this occasion, the choice of grape—and the dramatic contrast in regional expression—warrants a departure from our usual format.

16/07/2025

https://www.theseasidegazette.com/2025/07/115753/carataunas-road-death/

The small mountain village of Carataunas in the Alpujarra Granadina suffered the loss of one of its inhabitants in a road accident.

16/07/2025

https://www.theseasidegazette.com/2025/07/115752/encampment-on-hotel-plot-area/

It seems that couple have set up camp or temporary shelter on the TH1 (where the hotels are supposed to go) in Salobreña.

15/07/2025

https://www.theseasidegazette.com/2025/07/115738/salobrena-food-truck-event/

Salobreña is holding the Festival Mundial de Foodtruck for the first time, which is planned from the 17th to the 20th of this month.

15/07/2025

https://www.theseasidegazette.com/2025/07/115742/la-taha-festival/

If you have ever ventured up to the higher villages of the Alpujarra Granadina, you will have heard of La Taha, which is a group of small villages witin one municipality.

14/07/2025

https://www.theseasidegazette.com/2025/07/115732/strong-earth-tremor-2/

This was followed by a series of smaller ones, like the one with the epicentre below Salobreña that registered 1.6 on the Richter Scale. The 5.5 tremor, which happened at 05:13h GMT (which is 07.13h local time) was followed by a string of smaller tremors in the same area, as can be seen from

14/07/2025

https://www.theseasidegazette.com/2025/07/115723/flamingo-visitor/

We have been seeing a lot of unusual visitors this year, such as whales, and now, for the first time that I can remember, a flamingo, which was seen strutting along Cotobro beach.