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Andalusia or Andalucía?

The autonomous region of Andalusia (Andalucía in Spanish) is in the southern part of Spain. It spans from Atlantic coast in the west to the sheltered coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the east and from Málaga's Costa del Sol to the borders of Castilla – La Mancha the famous flat lands and Don Quixote windmill country.  With an average of 300 plus days of sunshine a year the coastal area is an all year round destination. Not so in the inland provinces of Cordoba, Jaen and Sevilla which ha ve baking hot summers that can reach +40c and cold winters which can be 0c or less overnight. The Mezquita, Córdoba Andalusia is divided into eight provinces, each with a provincial city of the same name. Some of them are far more famous than others: Almería , Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Sevilla. The three land-locked provinces are Córdoba, Jaé n and Sevilla, the rest are coastal. Each province and city is full of culture, history, traditions, fabulous monuments and cre...

Sunny January in Andalucia

After a wet beginning to the week the sun has shone consistently, renewing my faith and statement of "there´s always blue sky in Jaén".

Ok it´s not exactly true but feels like it.

Today we had a small order of logs and stacked them, then went to Casa El Reguelo our holiday home and picked our olive trees, all five of them. Not worth the effort say my boys, I disagree. We´ve had between 45 litres and 15 litres of extra virgen olive oil for the couple of hours it takes us to pick and bash our trees. It´s a great feeling have stacks of oil in the cupboard, can´t live on it I know but what a sense of satisfaction.

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