Karl SmallmanTO help celebrate our 100th print edition, we asked the Olive Press team to come up with 100 of the best things about living in Andalucia. (Oh, and ten things we hate!)
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Add your most – and least – favourite things about Andalucia by commenting at the end of the article…
- Ability to have fun
- Airline connections to UK
- Ajo blanco
- Alfresco dining
- Alhambra
- Almond and orange blossom
- Almonds
- Antonio Banderas
- Aracena walks
- AVE fast track railway
- Azulejo tiles
- Bank holidays in abundance
- Bolonia beach
- Cabo de Gata
- Cadiz
- Caminito del Rey
- Cazalla de la Sierra
- Cazorla park
- Cheese
- Chris Stewart
- Churros & chocolate
- Coffee
- Conserved mosques
- Cordoba mezquita
- Costa de la Luz
- Donana national park
- Donkeys
- Empty motorways
- Equestrianism
- Fact that anything grows
- Family values
- Feria de Abril
- Flamenco
- Fritura & mariscos
- Genal Valley
- Guadiaro Valley
- Golf courses
- Granada
- Grazalema goats cheese
- Gypsies
- Haberdashers
- Hand woven baskets
- Handsome bullfighters
- Herbs growing wild
- Jacaranda trees
- Jamon Iberico
- Jasmine
- Jerez de la Frontera
- La Consula cookery school
- Lavender
- Leather goods
- Local shops still survive
- Long lunches
- Los Reyes Magos
- Lynxes
- Mangos
- Marbella old town
- Markets
- Matanza pig slaughter
- Menu del dia
- Mix of landscapes
- Modern art of Malaga city
- No Sunday trading
- Olive oil
- Orange trees
- Pantile roofs
- Patios
- Pedro Ximenez pudding wine
- Picasso
- Pomegranates
- Priego de Cordoba
- Proximity to Morocco
- Raf tomatoes
- Red wines of Ronda & Gaucin
- Renaissance Castle of La Calahorra
- Rio Tinto mines
- Roadsweeper brooms made out of palms
- Rock of Gibraltar
- Romerias
- Ronda
- Semana Santa
- Sevilla
- Sierra Morena
- Sierra Nevada skiing
- Siestas
- Soaring eagles
- Spaghetti Westerns
- Stunning country hotels
- Subbetica
- Tapas
- Terracotta floors
- Tinto de Verano
- Village ferias
- Virgin oak forests
- Vultures
- Walking
- Weather
- White villages
- Wind and solar power
- Windsurfing in Tarifa
… and 10 things we hate
- Golf course projects as excuses for housing
- Lack of urgency
- Love of concrete
- Phone companies
- Political corruption
- Rapid Andaluz
- Sevillana
- Shouting over the television in bars and restaurants
- Taking dole over work
- The wet winters
What about Olives, Boquerones and most importantly – SHERRY!!!!
Only 10?
Foreigners who only come for the sun and complain about everything else.
Maria, are you allright?
LOVE: Via Verdes (Greenways)
HATE: Barking dogs
11. Ignorant language translators who tell people that the cannot compain about anything.
Love
Cante Jondo
Tolerance
The people
The language
Public art
Fuentes
Giant paellas
Federico Gargia Lorca
The light
Muscatel grapes
Moorish gardens
Spring flowers