GrapeEater

OK we all love the sand, sea, sangria and s*x in Spain. But the stink from the drains is one 'S' I do not like.

Smelly Spain... especially in the summer. Of course with so many people, so much rubbish and the summer sun the sewage is going to be bad, same as Greece .. the stink is disgusting !!!

Keep it clean ladies and gentlemen !

bil

In some areas there is a certain smell, I associate it with putrifying rubbish in the sun. I've smelled it near dumps in this country too, tho never that much.

03630

Victoria Beckham endeared herself to the Spanish with a very similar remark!

bil

Garbage smells everywhere, even when it's in a size zero dress

jjh

Near us, it's not the drains but the Marisma (marshland) and does that stink at this time of year!!

andyrich666

The Drains I got used to - so long as your not sleeping next to one, lol

The one thing I found hard to digest was the Smoke stench from fag ash lils in Cities like Sevilla, very off putting for me a non smoker and to be honest Id rather have the sewer smell, mmm or would I ??

With no air or breeze I guess that is the way it is, it certinaly something Ive not experienced in other areas of Spain.

poshnbucks

Must say on the whole my village it spotless. The three beaches have sea weed removed and sand turned and levelled every morning and at the same time the street cleaners and a large machine clean and sweep the streets. The green rubbish bins do smell if you lift the lid during summer but I have never smelt any of the drains being off.

Rambling Rose

One night last week someone dumped a bag of rubbish at the end of our street. When we took our dogs out a 8am it was strewn all over the place (presumeably by animals in the night). When we went out shopping at 10 am it had all been cleared up and the place was spotless again.

When we lived in the UK tourists were forever leaving rubbish in our street and the only way it got cleared up was if I or one of our neighbours did it.

Rose

Rosemary

It was more likely than not done by your neighbours here too. The ladies in most towns keep the streets clean, there are not many street cleaners in Spain.

Rosemary

poshnbucks

We have 6 full time street cleaners plus some 20 odd municipal lackies for a population of 1800 so I suppose we are very lucky.They employ more cleaners and beach cleaners in summer. One must have standards what.

Rambling Rose

I don't think it was the neighbours as the other permanent residents are away and the other 2 nearby houses are weekend/holiday home. It could have been someone employed by the management company for the urbanisation. They go around spraying weeds and tidying up every so often. I have no idea how this is paid for unless it comes out of the council tax. If it was them it was a coincidence that they were round within such a short time.
Maybe there is more money spent on this in Catalonia than elsewhere.

Rose

lynnxa

we have street cleaners - tons of them, but you mostly see them in the port area (under my bedroom window at 6am) rather than the pueblo or Arenal area - I have no idea why that is the case

carefreebrit

I lived in an Alicante region town and we had street cleaners who cleaned the central area twice each day- they had to as I found Spaniards sadly to rather enjoy giving the cleaners a job. If the costa Valencia does not have street cleaners then I will avoid that area when moving this year.

mikelincs

Streets in Spain are, in general, much much cleaner than in the UK, we see the street sweeper machines almost on a daily basis, and many of the steets are washed daily in Torrevieja.

betris

they proberly have to be with all the dog crap.comments please.