The works to improve the Avenida España in Ibiza town seem to have to have dragged on longer than the First World War. The whole road has been dug up and hasn't yet been put back together, remaining in an unfinished dirty state with duckboards on the ground for pedestrians to reach the shops. In fact local people have taken to calling it 'The Trench.'
Even worse, after heavy rain last week, the whole place turned into a sea of cloying mud and an enormous lorry became so stuck that even the municipal tow truck couldn't get it out and had to call in a big yellow mechanical excavator to extract it.
But don't worry, the work will all be finished by May! Now, after three, It's a long Way to Tipperary, it's a long way to go.