Archive for December, 2011
Friday, December 30th, 2011
I hope you are all having/have had a wonderful Christmas with your friends and family, full of good cheer, good food and plenty of liquid refreshment (mine was).
Tomorrow is Nochevieja (Old night), New Year's Eve, when Spanish families get together for a big feast, rounded off on the stroke of ...
Posted in Events, family, Food, gastronomy, Holidays | No Comments »
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
As this is my last proper blog post of 2011 - I will be wishing you a happy new year next week, but other than that I get a (well-earned) break between Christmas and New Year - I thought it would be a good chance to take a look back ...
Posted in Culture and Customs, Current affairs, Entertainment, Royalty/aristocracy | No Comments »
Monday, December 19th, 2011
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Leaving aside the human disasters of Andalucia for today's post, let's look at a fascinating, positive and potentially very exciting story about the region's fauna.
One of the most endangered felines ...
Posted in Nightlife, Our Environment | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Salvados interview with Cayetano Martinez de Irujo.
The Spanish generally enjoy a good relationship with their aristocracy - they tolerate their picadilloes and foibles, discussing them in animated chat shows, poring over them in the prensa rosa, and treating them like a live telenovella (soap opera) created for their own ...
Posted in Current affairs, Economy, Employment, Politics, Royalty/aristocracy | 6 Comments »
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Today is the first day for the new toll on the A22 road in Portugal. This is the continuation of the Sevilla-Huelva motorway, the A49, after it crosses the bridge over the river Guadiamar after Ayamonte, and carries on into the Algarve.
Many residents of western Andalucia are up in arms, ...
Posted in Travel Andalucia, Travel non-Andalucia | 31 Comments »
Monday, December 5th, 2011
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Last week a survey published by travel review website Qype, which analysed 10,000 reports and reviews from users in 12 countries, awarded Seville five stars, its maximum rating. The website ...
Posted in Tourism, Travel Andalucia | No Comments »
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
I haven't done a photo post on this blog for some time now. So here's an interactive post for you: seven photos, one from each of all the provinces in Andalucia except Jaen, which I'm ashamed to admit I've never visited in my eight years of living here. See if ...
Posted in architecture, Culture and Customs, Geography, History, Holidays, Nature, Tourism, Travel Andalucia | 2 Comments »
