Have you ever read a public tender that quietly admits the thing already built does not work? La Línea’s has one, halfway down. The new covered court at the Complejo Deportivo Municipal, the council writes, will let the site be used con independencia de las condiciones meteorológicas, regardless of the weather, and will free the…
One of the recurring frustrations of living here is how hard it is to find out anything. A place can be historically significant and still have almost no useful presence online – no hours, no explanation, nothing that tells you whether you can even go in. The Fuerte de Santa Bárbara has been one of…
La Línea de la Concepción is not pretty in the way the brochures need a place to be pretty, and the people who live here are mostly fine with that. It is a working town on the edge of a famous Rock, and to understand it you have to know one thing first: the town…
