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Thanks to Antonio Fornieles, the manager of the AR hotel, for being a real gentleman and helping Jacqui today.

Jacqui found out that the car had a puncture when she was collecting the list for Tuesday golf. Antonio was coming out of the clubhouse and saw Jacqui. He arranged for someone to come straight away from the hotel to put on the spare tyre for her. Very kind indeed.

By the time I had walked down to the clubhouse to help the new wheel had already been fitted.

You can guess who has been sorting out some new tyres this afternoon....

We have just added links to the Windsurf club Mar Azul and Víctor Fernández E42 websites to our Links page.

While Jacqui and I were enjoying the gazpacho yesterday there were a number of golfers taking part in the latest round of the Almerimar regularidad competition. There were some good scores with 40 points winning the lower category and a cracking 46 points winning the higher category. There will be a very large handicap cut for Manuel Cruz Lopez.

You can see the full results here on the Almerimar Flashcaddy site.

I was thinking this morning I wonder who won the Virgen del Carmen Regata this year. This made me have a look around on the internet and after looking on the Ideal site I found the website for the Club Náutico de Almerimar. According to the site the club was formed in 1987.

I have added a link to the site in our Links page.

On the site I found a link to the page here with the results. Well done to Logística for winning this year.

The site also mentioned that there was the first ever Virgen del Carmen fishing competition this year. I wonder what the results were.

Plus it has an advert for scuba diving courses organised by the club.

It also has a webcam looking out to sea that you can view as 3 second still images or video (they say the video doesn´t work in all browsers - it also appears to be a little intermittent as it worked a minute or two ago for me but is not working now). You can see the webcam here.

One other useful thing on the site for me is that it has wind speed and direction charts for Almerimar from Windguru and Windfinder. These show a 3 day forecast that is useful to golfers as well as yachtsmen and windsurfers.

Perhaps something for John Wi to identify..... We spotted these birds close to the beach while we were walking along the prom today. When they flew off they looked a very pretty bright browny green colour.

Rather than just sit in all day and watch the golf Jacqui and I decided that we would have a stroll along the prom on the lakes side of town then call in to the gazpacho event (see separate article).

We walked along a big part of the prom. From the car park near the church up to Mare Nostrum then all the way back down to the town again.

Read More for details and you can see loads of photos from the poniente prom here in the Gallery.

The gazpacho tasting in Almerimar today was due to start at 1pm. Jacqui and I decided that we would park up near the church and have a stroll along the prom before attending (see separate story later). In the end the event started at around 2pm.

Read More for details.

A gazpacho tasting event with 8 different types of gazpachos is to be held in Almerimar.

The article here on the Ideal site has details of this event that will take place at 1pm tomorrow (Sunday 22 July 2012) on the promenade behind the AR Almerimar hotel.

Read More for a Google translation of the article.