4 - 10 May 2023
COSTA DE ALMERIA • EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM
FIRST VISIT
FOR the first time in history the Sea Cloud has paid Almeria a visit. The emblematic 92‐year‐old sail‐ ing ship is owned by the shipping company Sea Cloud Cruises, whose cabins, lounges and deck have wit‐ nessed the experiences of celebri‐ ties, the US Navy and, for just over 40 years, tourists who opt for exclu‐ sivity. The New York tycoon Edward Hut‐ ton had the splendid four‐masted pleasure yacht, the largest in the world and named Hussar, built for his wife, Marjorie Merriweather. The launching of the yacht took place in April 1931. In 1935 the couple separated and Marjorie remarried Joseph Davies, who became the American ambas‐ sador to Moscow in 1937, and the Sea Cloud became a floating diplo‐ matic palace to which celebrities ALMERIA’S mayor, Maria del Mar Vazquez, has highlighted the “efficient” use of water in Almeria in the face of the current drought situation. Vazquez stressed that “Almeria cannot afford to waste a single drop of water, whether through water transfers, desalina‐ tion or regeneration.” She thanked the Junta de Andalucia for its re‐
Image: Sea Cloud Cruises
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SEA CLOUD: Has paid Almeria a visit for the first time in its history.
such as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium were invited. In the late 1970s, a group of Ger‐ man businessmen took the Sea Cloud to Hamburg; in February 1979, it was towed to Kiel, to the shipyard
where it was built half a century ear‐ lier. After nine months of work, the Sea Cloud set sail on her first cruise under a new flag. In 2011 she was refurbished, look‐ ing like a great jewel on the sea.
Almeria’s efficiency ceptiveness in approving the Third Drought Decree which is a measure that will allow the 10 cubic hectometres to be con‐ served for agricultural ac‐ tivity and a better quality of water. This means Almeria can continue exporting “the best fruit and vegetables
to the whole of Europe.” Vazquez also recalled that “Almeria is one of the areas of the planet where the most is made of a drop of water be‐ cause the level of use for irrigation exceeds 95 per cent. “This is an efficiency that has allowed us to be
a scenario for the genera‐ tion of employment, wealth and healthy and wholesome food.”
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