Tomorrow, Thursday September 24th, is ‘Arthur’s Day’, celebrating the day in 1759 when one Arthur Guinness (1725-1803) signed a 9,000 year lease on the St James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin. Celebrations are taking place all over the world. Here in Nerja, the Blarney Stone are offering a free buffet and Irish Annie’s, amongst other things, has played around with the …
Damp squib
It didn’t turn out to be the great ‘event’ it was supposed to be, but it was a world record nonetheless. About 175,000 people turned out to see ‘Roar on the Shore’, and attempt to set a Guinness World Record by setting of 110,000 fireworks within 60 seconds from a barge between Bournemouth and Boscombe piers. The spectators were expecting …