Neil Diamond fans can enjoy an evening of classic hits when tribute performer Rees brings The Neil Diamond Experience to Lo Crispin Tavern & Beer Garden in Algorfa on Saturday, September 12.

The show will celebrate the songs of one of the world’s most successful singer-songwriters, with a set drawing on a career spanning decades.

Neil Diamond classics will fill the Lo Crispin beer garden

Audiences can expect familiar favourites including “Sweet Caroline”, “Cracklin’ Rosie”, “Love on the Rocks”, “Forever in Blue Jeans”, “Song Sung Blue” and “I Am… I Said”, alongside more from Diamond’s extensive catalogue.

The evening takes place in the beer garden, with meals served from 7:00 PM before the tribute show begins at 9:00 PM.

Rees will take audiences through some of the songs that made Neil Diamond an international star, with the Saturday night performance offering fans the chance to hear many of his best-known hits together in one show.

€15 ticket includes an evening meal and tribute show

Tickets cost €15 per person, including a meal and the show.

Meal choices include scampi with chips, peas and tartare sauce; gammon steak with chips and peas; or lasagne with chips and garlic bread.

Ice cream is included for dessert, while vegetarian alternatives include lasagne, curry and Mexican-style pizza.

A children’s menu will also be available for youngsters aged 12 and under, allowing families to attend the evening together.

Meals will be served from 7:00 PM, giving diners plenty of time to eat before The Neil Diamond Experience begins at 9:00 PM.

Bookings are open for the September 12 performance in Algorfa

Lo Crispin Tavern is open Monday to Sunday from 11:00 AM until 11:30 PM.

The venue is located at Avenida de las Naciones 55A, Algorfa.

With dinner included in the €15 ticket price, the September 12 event combines an evening meal with a full tribute to the music of Neil Diamond in the venue’s beer garden.

For bookings and further information, call (+34) 966 924 828 or email locrispintavern@hotmail.com.

Costa del Sol fundraiser Alan Boardman has given his Fun Quiz for Charity a new regular home at Christy’s Irish Gastropub in Fuengirola. Tuesdays at 2.30pm is the slot, handy for just after lunch and fancy a giggle that also pays for something useful.

Seeing how popular Alan’s quizzes are, Christy’s have already talked him into hosting the quiz weekly, on a temporary trial basis during September. That is quite a jump from the old every-other-week rhythm at Fibbers in Torreblanca and Dixie’s in town. Alan still writes every round himself, in that slightly cheeky style regulars already know and love. Someone did leave an English quiz book behind the bar, which is a rum find in an Irish pub, but he will not be nicking questions from it. He has been doing this long enough not to need to cut corners.

Small price for great causes in the heart of Fuengirola’s social scene

Entry is still €2 a head. Every euro goes to a registered local cause. Alan rotates the beneficiary between an animal charity and one that helps people. Past quiz pots have gone to Pawsawhile Dog Rescue, ADIMI in Mijas, SEARCH in Coin, El Vuelo de las Libelulas, Last Chance Animal Rescue and Cudeca. Right now the pot is for Aristochat, the Mijas Costa cat shelter, which takes in abandoned cats and finds them forever homes.

Christy’s is right in the middle of Fuengirola at Calle Olleria 20, an easy stroll from the Paseo. Staff are the same familiar faces week in, week out, and the covered terrace is private, air-conditioned in summer and heated in winter. First quiz day they sat 40 without a squeeze and still had room for latecomers. Sightlines are good and the sound carries, so nobody is craning round a pillar.

Perfect timing after a morning at Fuengirola market

Hungry types can sit the Tuesday roast first. It is a smaller plate than the Sunday roast that made the pub’s name, but it is only €9.95, with the main menu still available. Coffee, tea and soft drinks are on if 2.30pm feels early for what many call the best Guinness in town.

Jenny Boardman keeps the books tidy. Alan and Jenny post the accounts on their Facebook pages so anyone can see the cash went where they said it would. Same idea as his Mijas walking tours, which have now passed €30,000 for 27 local charities.

Turn up as a four or on your own for the now legendary fun quizzes for charity; Alan will park solos with a friendly table. Tables for food: WhatsApp Christy’s on +34 620 226 911.

Just as we thought autumn might be upon us the weather once again tells us it has other ideas, with Aemet issuing orange warnings as the country is set to reach an unusually hot spell for September. AEMET has extended its orange warning through Friday, with up to 42C expected in the capital and the Vega and Alto Guadalquivir areas. 

The worst of the heat will be felt in inland southern Spain where temperatures will reach between to 42C – 43C while other parts of the country are also expected to see temperatures well above normal.

Córdoba remains under orange warning

Friday will be slightly cooler than Thursday in Córdoba, when temperatures are forecast to reach 43C, but the drop will offer little relief. The rest of Córdoba province will remain under a yellow warning for high temperatures.

AEMET expects the heat to continue beyond Friday, with temperatures in the capital remaining above 40C into the beginning of next week. In neighbouring Sevilla, the Campiña Sevillana will also be under an orange warning on Friday. The maximum is expected to reach 41C between 1pm and 9pm. 

40C temperatures spread across Spain

Friday is expected to bring temperatures of 40C or higher to a much wider area than the zones under the highest warning level. Badajoz, Cáceres, Córdoba, Sevilla, Granada, Jaén, Zaragoza, Lleida, Logroño and Toledo are among the cities where temperatures are expected to approach or exceed 40C. 

AEMET’s wider forecast shows temperatures of more than 34C across large parts of the peninsula, while Mallorca could reach above 35C.  The agency’s forecast also points to very warm nights in parts of southern Spain, the Mediterranean coast, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, with minimum temperatures remaining around 25C in some locations. 

Heat continues into the weekend

The current episode is being driven by a very warm air mass affecting the peninsula and Balearic Islands. Spain’s Civil Protection authorities, using AEMET forecasts, said the episode was expected to continue at least until Friday, with 40C to 42C possible in valleys across the southern half of the country.  The high temperatures are also expected to push the fire danger back towards extreme levels, with dry afternoon storms possible in some areas. 

Although Friday marks the peak or near-peak of the current episode in many areas, the heat will not disappear immediately. AEMET forecasts temperatures remaining unusually high into the weekend, although some parts of the country are expected to begin seeing a gradual fall. 

The heat arrives only days after the start of meteorological autumn on September 1. Thursday is expected to be hotter in several areas, with 43C forecast in Córdoba and Sevilla, but Friday will bring little relief. Further north, conditions will be more moderate, with some Atlantic coastal areas remaining in the mid-20s.  The contrast will be especially noticeable in northern coastal areas, where temperatures will stay well below the levels forecast inland.