Tourists visiting Falésia beach in Albufeira, this Easter weekend were faced with a collapsed wooden stairway, destroyed in the November 1st storm last year
Many clambered down with some difficulty but none were impressed that six months later, this essential access still lay in ruins.
The regional director of the Portuguese Environment Agency announced that the wooden stairway will be rebuilt by May 15th this year, and that work will start in mid-April.
This weak response displays the mixture of arrogance and inefficiency for which the agency has become known.
The Albufeira council area accounts for 40% of the Algarve’s tourist income and to leave this structure in a state of collapse at the start of what is building up to be a record year for tourism in Portugal is reprehensible.
Foto: João Arroja, Jornal do Algarve
