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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...

Oh No, It´s Cooling Down

After a crazy ongoing summer with no rain it finally seems to be cooling down.
I´ve had to put long sleeves on and now jogging bottoms having been in shorts all day.

It´s great, blue sky and sunny, not ridiculously hot and now much cooler evenings. But we need rain. The olives that haven´t watering systems are shrivelling up on the trees.


It´s going to be a very poor harvest for many this year, yet the crop is a bumper one, such a shame. They´re falling off already even before turning black.

The dust goes on (I hate the dust), and now it´s fly time too. Annoying slow flies. October is always the worst and I´ve never understood why. Why why´s there so many flies?

Why aren´t there any flies on the coast either? Anyone fill me in?

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