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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...

Best Tapas in Seville

Just got home from a great day out in Sevilla. I love it, I´m a country girl at heart and don´t like crowds or cities but Sevilla was amazing and so flat after Jaén. All the photos I´d seen and images in my head didn´t do it justice - even in the rain.

I met up with Shawn Hennessey from Sevilla Tapas and we had great fun tapas testing, my favourites of the day follow.


This one was my favourite in the Restaurante La Juderia, baby hamburger with jamon Iberico and caramelised onions.


In Restaurante La Sal we tried black squid ink rice with cuttlefish, seaweed fritters, tuna tataky with braised cabbage and cured tuna ventresca on toast and the winner was....


The divine seaweed fritters, my favourite out of the four and my two best tapas in Sevilla today.






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