http://www.theentertaineronline.com/ The Entertainer Online is for friends and residents of Mojacar, Spain. The site includes a blog, local and national news, the Weeniewatch, an extensive listing of useful links about Spain and several other wonders besides. This is a non-commercial site. en-gb This site is powered by e107, which is released under the terms of the GNU GPL License. lenoxnapier@nospam.com (Entertainer Admin) lenoxnapier@nospam.com (Entertainer Admin) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:35:17 -0500 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:35:17 -0500 http://backend.userland.com/rss e107 (http://e107.org) 60 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/e107_images/button.png http://www.theentertaineronline.com/ 88 31 The Entertainer Online is for friends and residents of Mojacar, Spain. The site includes a blog, local and national news, the Weeniewatch, an extensive listing of useful links about Spain and several other wonders besides. This is a non-commercial site. http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1995.5 nacionalistas: - 'While the Catalan separatists want to leave Spain, the village in the French eastern Pyrenees called Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via has unanimously approved to disassociate itself from France and move to Spanish territory. The recent vote in the plenary session of the City Council of this French town has no legal effect and is only intended to protest against what they consider to be the abandonment of the area and the mountain villages in general by the French State'... (From this week's 'Business over Tapas')]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1995 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:21:50 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1995.5 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1994.5 rethink'. The 8,116 town halls in Spain will continue, with their councillors, but there will be some economic changes, with more responsibilities passing to the diputaciones (county councils). There, that didn't hurt now, did it?]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1994 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:57:26 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1994.5 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1993.2 Paradise Lost' video) and, like the twelve homes in Zurgena, here the Supreme Court has ordered the demolition of four homes that, says La Voz de Almería, were sold to ingleses.
Seems the mayor not only allowed the homes to be built, he then - gasp - allowed the families to have water and electric!

A front-line blog from Jim Simpson, a councillor from Zurgena, has real news on the local housing problems and other issues.

Later: Despite the acute pressure from Seville, people are apparently still buying homes in Almería. Our favourite local daily, La Voz de Almería, says so. Mind, according to the paper, 'second homes' (they mean residential homes) in the Levante and the Almanzora Valley are being picked up by Belgians and French people. Ooh, and Scandinavians and Russians as well (they obviously don't show the same news about 'viviendas ilegales' on their telly as the do in the UK). The source for this information comes from a local realtor, run, as it happens, by a Frenchwoman...]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1993 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:57:25 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1993.2 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1992.6 According to the ABC newspaper, there's 'a struggle between the British and the Russians for the conquest of Mojácar'. Seems our wonnerful Almeria Tourist Department (the one that had the jolly day in Potter's Field in London recently) 'continues with its commitment to attract visitors from other countries and, preferably, with high purchasing power. The agreement recently signed with the tour operator Natalie Tours will lead to the arrival during the month of June of 600 Russian citizens to the province'.
Ah, high purchasing power.
Звучит здорово!]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1992 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:56:07 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1992.6 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1991.5 we find that Mr Bárcenas had stashed some 47 million euros in Switzerland. We have also learned today that Bárcenas slipped 1.5m into Switzerland in 2002/3 and not only forgot to tell the taxman, but actually claimed 21,000€ return on his IRPF. but as Education, Culture and Sport Minister Wert said only yesterday, commenting on a footballer called Messi who neglected to report four million euros to Hacienda, 'the law is the same for everyone in Spain'.]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1991 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:52:11 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1991.5 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1990.6 Bédar, Carboneras, Cuevas del Almanzora, Garrucha, Huércal-Overa, Los Gallardos, Mojácar, Pulpí and Zurgena.
I had read somewhere that it has high levels of Trihalomethanes in it and that Carboneras desalinated water is being added to the mix. Still and all, it looks like a political potato between the Heath Department of the Junta de Andalucía (don't drink) and the Almería Diputación (do, drink!).]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1990 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:23:58 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1990.6 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1989.5 report in the Voz de Almería. The people responsible, all now no longer connected to the Diputación, produced at least 110 different 'false facturas' which are now being investigated by the Courts, usually as tickets for non-existent passengers. Around 400,000€ is thought to have been taken illegally in this way.]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1989 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:21:12 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1989.5 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1988.6 mess.

*The Town Hall confirms that the fiesta in Mojácar will be on Sunday night 23rd June at the Playa de Descargador (opposite the campsite).]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1988 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:01:01 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1988.6 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1987.6 excitement in western Almería at the moment as around thirty companies announce that they will be heading to Madrid in October for the annual 'Fruit Attraction'. Once again, no English-speaking person was hurt in the making of this august fruit and vegetable fair in our Nation's Capital.]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1987 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:55:46 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1987.6 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1986.2 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1986 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:18:37 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1986.2 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1985.2 a photo of three journalists from the Czech Republic, posing in the Mojácar pueblo with an official from the Department, a lady dressed in a Moroccan khaftan and another scrawny one dressed in black and wearing the head of a cartoon rodent. Miqüi Mouse I presume. Whether we are spreading our net still wider to fill the stricken hotels of Marina de la Torre this time with bemused Czech tourists, all looking for DisneySpain, is unclear, but I think the cunning plan to turn Mojácar into a shrine for Walt Disney (who, if he ever even knew Mojácar, clearly made his first Life's Decision to leave at the Earliest Age) to be bad one, and I shall not be dressing up as Pluto the Dog anytime soon (and certainly not during the Moors and Christians).
Other ideas? see Spanish Shilling.]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1985 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:34:41 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1985.2 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1984.4 According to Unión Mojácar Diez, a local political party in the opposition, the Mayoress has ordered half a dozen cameras to be put up in strategic points in Mojácar to vigilate the scene.
Meanwhile, has local radio Vera Comunicación been closed down as La Voz de Almería suggests?]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1984 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:15:27 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1984.4 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1983.5 must now have their Energy Efficiency Rating 'certificado de eficiencia energética' passed, with the details included in all advertising. Fines up to 6,000€ for failure to do so. These only apply to 'second-hand' homes (which means those of us who wish to rent or sell their homes) and not to temporary structures with a life of two years, structures under 50m2 in size, buildings sold for demolition or new buildings - which should already have the certificate. You don't have to fix your house after it has been assayed, and the price is somewhere in the 200 to 300€ range. Bit pointless really.]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1983 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:52:36 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1983.5 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1982.2 frolick, fulsome fun, frenesí and other colourful terms - will be somehow squeezed into Mojacár pueblo from Friday as the 25th annual Moors and Christians festival takes off. Conceivably (although this may be wishful thinking) a fraction quieter than in other years. At any event: not to be missed, especially the Sunday procession from the main square down to the fountain which starts at 7.00pm.]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1982 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:44:29 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1982.2 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1981.2 Wikipedia). Who will the Foreigners in Spain vote for, the candidate MEP list from the Partido Popular (who, obviously, won't do anything for us) or the candidate MEP list from the PSOE (who, obviously, won't do anything for us either). Anyone out there want to start a pro-european residents party?]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1981 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Wed, 29 May 2013 15:45:47 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1981.2 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1980.2 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1980 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Wed, 29 May 2013 14:35:26 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1980.2 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1979.2 The singer’s widow, Lucinda, and daughter, Lola, unveiled the Plaza de Joe Strummer at a ceremony last week. Strummer, who name-checked the city in The Clash’s London Calling album track Spanish Bombs, died of a heart attack at the age of 50 in 2002'... From The Olive Press. We are still waiting for word from Almería about The Pogues (see 'Fiesta' here Wheee!), although there is a statue honouring Beatle John Lennon.
Wouldn't it be a laugh if they honoured a foreigner here in Mojácar - the Fritz Mooney Gallery, Calle de Bill Napier, Avenida de Paul Becket, Glorieta de la British Legion..? After all, it was the forasteros who brought this town to life and now number around 60% of the population...
No, Don't worry Lady Mayoress, I'm just joshing with you...]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1979 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Wed, 29 May 2013 09:52:46 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1979.2 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1978.4 Los Legitimos de Gibraltar. Honestly, the stuff they put on Facebook. A nitwit friend who likes tattoos, pictures of tortured or skinned dogs (Huh?), bullfight propaganda, people who live in Spain and admire Nigel Farage... and these bozos: 'How does one call the Rock? The illegal British Colony of Gibraltar'! Go and take the medicine guys.]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1978 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Tue, 28 May 2013 14:12:51 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1978.4 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1977.5 El Huffington Post, there probably won't be any summer this year, with the seas colder than usual together with weak solar activity causing twice-as-likely rain and temperatures two degrees below normal. In August there will be short hot spells followed by heavy electric storms, according to the French weather people. The best summer weather will be in September and October. So bring your wellies if you are planning a visit!]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1977 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Mon, 27 May 2013 12:57:24 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1977.5 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1976.5 justicia) has returned to give another setback to the Andalucian plan to 'regularize' as many as possible of the 250,000 'illegal dwellings' (that no one noticed being built across Andalucía in the first decade of the century). In a recent ruling against the builder of a villa on undeveloped land, the Seville Audience (a political court) believes that the document adopted by the Administration in January 2012 is only the 'legislative expression of the desire to provide a legal instrument to administrations with competence to order irregular situations'. That is, a desire but not a decree to legalize houses built against the law.
For the audience in Seville, a prison sentence and the immediate demolition of the dwelling is the 'only way' to fix the 'situation caused by those who built without a license in undeveloped land'. More at La Voz de Almería and El Mundo.

Consider the suffering of the 250,000 households, many of whom are elderly and retired, without water or electric, because of the Junta de Andalucía's unbelievable intransigence. Consider, too, the money spent on those 250,000 houses, now, apparently to be demolished at the owners' expense. Let's say 200,000€ per house. Five for a million euros. We have here a total of fifty billion euros. Just in Andalucía. The whole lot cashed by the grateful lawyers, promoters, builders, mayors and councillors. All, apparently, a giant con.]]> http://www.theentertaineronline.com/comment.php?comment.news.1976 entadmin@nospam.com (Entertainer Adm) Mon, 27 May 2013 12:29:38 -0500 http://www.theentertaineronline.com/news.php?item.1976.5