What a Journey Home from Work

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...

I thought I´d share some views from the drive home from "work" today. We had to go and photograph a house that is being sold and do some repairs, every day is different, today was an enjoyable drive that felt like an outing.

I love it when we get paid to explore this beautiful and diverse land we now live in.

Cambil is about 50 minutes from home, south towards Granada on the edge of Sierra Magina and the area that Penelope Chetwode rode in Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalucia that I´ve just finished reading. It is also where the film Entre Lobos took place, a wild unkempt mountain range, especially fifty years ago.

I love the rock formations and the greeness, compared with home. My area is full of olive trees and between them, right now dead weeds or brown earth. In the real heat the olive leaves turn their under shiny side to the sun.

In the Sierras or mountains there are more pine trees so it all appears to be more full of life in the arid summer months.

Coming home I got snap happy out of the car window and was quite suprised and pleased with some of the shots. So my journey home from work was like this....