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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...

Solo Traveler - An Unknown Trip to .....

Ok, so I now know where I´m off to and off to soon - I fly from Malaga airport at 6am (I know, ugghh) this Saturday to Oslo, Norway.

I´m so excited. I´ll admit none of the Low Countries were on my ´want-to-visit´list ´cos I don´t do cold. I´m the only one in the house when it´s snowing outside, and yes, it does snow here in the mountains of inland Andalucia at least once a year!

Now I´ve bought some fleecy insoles, de-mothballed my coat, found a hat and some gloves I can´t wait. My trip research, a part I love and find almost as good as the trip, is well under way. There´s so much to do and see there I now wish I´d taken some time off and made it a bit longer - oh well, next time - or maybe not as I´ve just read that Oslo is one of the top twenty most expensive cities in the world.

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