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The garden centre 'Alcayna' close by Mazarron Country Club is now permanently recorded in Google Streetview's mapping of the Mazarrón area. The Google Streetview vehicle also seems to have travelled on the back-road E19 from Mazarrón to La Pinilla. I've no idea when these images were taken - presumably sometime last summer or Autumn, or perhaps even a year or two ago. You can make the images

Some recent Google searches in this blog for 'Airport directions' have not provided a suitable link and result, because these details are included in my website, although of course the website itself is linked permanently from here (see right column).The direct link to such airport directions is available in the website by clicking on 'Location' or by clicking here.

Last October a neighbour and I began some landscaping work on the area of rough ground opposite our homes at Mazarron Country Club, basically by having it cleared of weeds, levelled-off and overlaid with a woven weed barrier membrane and then finished off with some gravel for later spot-planting with suitable drought-tolerant plants. However as neither of us lives there permanently, some very

At long last Mazarron Country Club near Mazarrón in Murcia Region, where I have my holiday home in Spain, has a newly-elected President and Vice-president, together with a team of people to manage the future affairs of our 'Urbanización'. If you want to know more, click here to visit the MCC website, or you can visit 'Soapbox' if you have access to that - if you want to know how to get access if

An important upcoming event at Mazarron Country Club (MCC): MCC Community of OwnersEXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING (EGM)Tuesday 10th November 2009at 'Mariano de Camposol' Restaurant, CamposolTimingsFirst call - 4.30 pm (16.30 hours)Second call - 5.00 pm (17.00 hours)- this follows on from the inconclusive Annual General Meeting (AGM) which took place on Thursday 24th September 2009 and which

Community Bonfire Party! (No Fireworks)Saturday November 7th at 6.30pmOn green area 31/333 Euros per person ... pay on the night!Includes ... Food & Fun! (Chilli, Curry, Stew, Spuds & Coleslaw!) ~ We're only catering for 150 people ... so make sure you're early! ~ Please bring your own ... Drink, Glass, Plate, Fork & Chair!Make the best Guy Fawkes and win the prize!Weigh the Cake! - Euro a

To start the new gardening season off at Mazarron Country Club, members of the Gardening Group decided it would be a good idea to have a barbecue at the top of one of the pieces of ground that has been transformed since the Spring into an attractively planted and gravelled area, opposite Manzana 28 and between Manzanas 33 & 31. So a group of around a dozen members and friends gathered together on

How can I best summarise the events of the MCC AGM held on 24th September? Well, it was a tiring evening. I remained after the formal meeting ended at 8.35pm and took part as one of the 'counters' for the 3 elements of the votes it was decided to tabulate last night - those for president, the individuals who stood as representatives in their own names and the administrator firm. We completed our

Upcoming events at Mazarron Country Club (MCC) include: MCC Community of OwnersPresidential CandidateBarry Smith’s Pre-AGM Open MeetingTuesday 22nd Septemberat 5.30 pm (17.30 hours)at the Country Club RestaurantBarry will open the meeting and he and his team will give a presentation about their plans (if elected), with an opportunity for members to ask questions.Full disclosure - as a

Approval for Mazarrón municipality to join the Public Transport Authority (PTA) has been given by the Governing Council of the Murcia Autonomous Region and awaits only final approval from the Ministry of Public Works and Spatial Planning, under whose control the PTA operates.According to the linked report, the objective of this change is to allow the benefits of public transport services to be

After the first very successful barbecue held by the Neighbourhood Concern Gardening Group at Mazarron Country Club in mid-July, plans are now well underway for a second fundraising barbecue in early September. Obviously the word is being passed around MCC about the next barbecue and posters are being displayed there so people know about it. I'm happy to include below a copy of the poster they

Well, giving the plants badly-needed water in addition to laying more membrane and gravel, with the aim of giving plant roots some extra protection from the intense drying heat. And doing some minor planting of donated plants, now not really being the right season to be putting too many new plants into the soil (even if you can dig it right now when it's so rock-hard).Yesterday evening (Sunday

It is VERY hot in the Murcia region just at present and indeed today I saw a report in La Verdad advising that an Orange Alert for dangerously high temperatures in the region over the next several hours has been announced, with a warning that temperatures could reach 40+ degC.So, a couple of days ago it was that some brave souls from the Mazarron Country Club Gardening Group decided to undertake

From what I have read and heard from direct contacts with people who were there, the Barbecue last Wednesday evening, hosted by the MCC Gardening Group to raise funds for their future activities, was a huge success and everyone seems to have enjoyed the evening a lot. Unfortunately as I am not currently in Spain I couldn't be there myself, but am really grateful to have received a large number of

A reporter from CNN International visited MCC and other golf developments in southern Spain recently - as some who have experience there know only too well, such as those of us at MCC, the progress by the builder in fulfilling his promises has been lamantably slow. The current economic downturn is certainly a factor, but one wonders if it is the only reason for their delinquency. Watch and weep:

Yesterday the gardening group gathered at it's new start-time of 8pm for its regular Sunday evening gardening activities, now restricted because of the heat mainly to watering and weeding, although the hardy gardeners seemingly can't resist getting into moving rocks as well, or even trying to dig holes for new plants in the now near rock-hard soil!These notes are based on information supplied by

Some of the people involved in the Neighbourhood Concern Gardening Group at Mazarron Country Club have been busy for a few weeks putting together plans to hold a fundraising barbecue to help with the group's gardening activities. Now they are ready to let everybody know about what is planned and will be distributing leaflets and posters to let people at MCC know about it. I'm happy to include

Hazel Davison has sent me some photographs this evening of a part of the open ground between Manzanas 31 & 33, opposite Manzana 28, that she and Richard Dawson (and perhaps a few others, I'm not sure) have been working on yesterday and today, to lay gravel around some of the plants put into the soil on previous Sundays, with the aim of inhibiting weed growth and helping to retain moisture in the

Last Sunday (7th June) the Gardening Group continued working mainly on the area between Manzanas 19 & 20 (although some moved back to the ground between Manzanas 31 & 33 to do weeding and tidying-up).These notes are based on information kindly supplied by Barbara Franken, who also sent me the photographs.(I also gleaned some information from various message exchanges between Gardening Group

Yesterday during its regular Sunday evening gardening acitivities, the Gardening Group moved to the area between Manzanas 19 & 20.These notes are based on information supplied by Alan Buck, who also sent me the photographs.I paraphrase what Alan writes about his 'before/after' photographs: Alan's notes on yesterday evening's60 MINUTE MAKEOVERby the Gardening GroupThe reason for the heading