Andalucia Steve

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Funny Things They Eat in Spain

Warning: Don't read this if you are vegan/vegetarian
It was during my first week in Spain that I ascended an escalator in a big supermarket, turned a corner in to the meat section and was greeted by a rack of pig faces. It was quite a bizarre sight! It looked as though the left half a pig's head had been placed in a polystyrene tray and wrapped in cling-film. There were dozens of them, all looking the same way, which of course prompted a question in my ever curious mind. Where were the right hand sides of the pig's heads? Was there another ... read more
 

The low down on Spanish weddings

What's it really like to go to a wedding in Spain?
I stumbled across a DVD I made a few years ago of a Spanish wedding that I was invited to. I've been to several in fact, and I've noticed there are quite a few differences to Spanish weddings, some of which may seem a little odd to outsiders. Firstly, one doesn't necessarily need to know the bride and groom to be invited to a wedding in Spain. In one instance I was very friendly with the groom's father but I'd never met his son or the wife to be. On the big day, although I attended ... read more
 

Eight Great Reasons to Visit Spain

Why Spain is a great place to take a vacation
I felt I was unduly negative in last weeks blog post. To be fair, I was directly ranting at the folk in charge of tourism in Spain, not the country, which is rich in reasons to visit. So, to redress the balance somewhat, here are my eight great reasons to visit Spain. 1) People have been here since prehistory. The first time I stayed in Cehegin, the town in which I spent my first six years living here, I booked into a hotel that had copies of rock art on the wall.... read more
 
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