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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...

Sun, Sun, Sun and Sun

Yep it´s a sunny forecast. I love my homepage weather forecast when it´s just blue and yellow pictures for the four days shown. Yipppeee. But it is pretty cold with it.

So what have I done with my blue sky day today? Olive picking. We were offered our friends olive trees to pick, and not being able to say no I´ve now got aches and pains in muscles unknown.

There´s something wonderfully satisfying about the great outdoors, beautiful sunshine and a harvest waiting to be gathered.

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