Andalusia, Southern Spain, is a vast area of contrasts; craggy sierra mountains and lush green valleys, enormous hydro lakes, and windy little, sometimes dangerous, roads and modern expressways and interchanges. Most interesting has been the very obvious history – from paleo through Arabs, Christians, inquisitions and Romans. But, I guess, the agricultural life goes on and on. There are more olive trees than anywhere else in the world, along with wheat, sunflowers and vineyards. It is so green and gorgeous now; of course with the cold and the rain, but we are reliably told that it will brown off now that the sun seems to have arrived. The garden at the vinca (villa)has heaps of herbs and vegetables, but the irises have finished and it is only the roses left. Apart from the cities, like Cordoba
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