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The Madrid Climate Conference and the ‘no-pasa nada’ rural Andalucía

General WritingKaretheDecember 6, 20190

As world leaders meet at the United Nation Climate Change Conference in Madrid these days and a brave young Swede has sailed across the Atlantic to get there, I thought it time to take a look at Spain’s own ecological …

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Want to learn Spanish? Seven tips on how to go native

General WritingKaretheNovember 29, 20190

 

Many foreigners live in Spain for years and never learn to speak the local language. Some say they are too old. Others won’t even try, surviving I suppose, with English and sign language. I am the first to admit that …

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Long weekend in Lisbon – a pastel city portrait

General WritingKaretheNovember 8, 20190

 

Mysterious, magnificent and mellow – many words have been used to describe Portugal’s coastal capital, though I see it as a portrait in pink and blue. Arriving across the Ponte 25 de Abril suspension bridge, the city lays bathed in …

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A subterranean meeting with the new Neanderthals – La Cueva de Ardales

General WritingKaretheOctober 23, 20191

Imagine a perfect prehistoric time capsule laying undisturbed for millennia. This is La Cueva de Ardales, an enormous cave near the small town of Ardales, 50 kilometres from the Mediterranean coast. The cave would likely never have been discovered …

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Nocturnal grape harvest at Descalzos Viejos – Possibly Spain’s most spectacular vineyard

General WritingKaretheSeptember 19, 20191

 


Have you ever dreamt of taking part in a traditional wine harvest? I certainly have, so when my husband and I were invited to this year’s vendimia at Descalzos Viejos winery, we accepted immediately.

While our hometown Ronda in …

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Sensational Andalucía – sight, sound, smell, taste and touch impressions from the Spanish south

General WritingKaretheSeptember 5, 20190

Some of the best things about travelling are the sensory impressions that we retain long after travel photos have become dusty memories in forgotten albums.

When I visited India some years back I took several thousand photos, yet what stuck …

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The Legends, Lies And Secrets Of Ronda’s Majestic Mina De Agua

General WritingKaretheAugust 21, 20191

The most astonishing fact about Ronda’s secret water mine is that it was made in the first place. The second most remarkable thing is that it is still here 700 years later, in spite of military battles, profit-seeking owners, grave …

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The olive tree – a pictorial guide to its many split personalities and idiosyncrasies

General WritingKaretheAugust 1, 20190

We Norwegians see trolls behind every rock, so it is no surprise that I also attribute olive trees with certain human characteristics. I mean, just look at them – bent and gnarly and simply exuding personality. I cannot go for …

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Women of rural Andalucía – From illiterate to university graduate in three generations

General WritingKaretheJuly 26, 20190

 

When we bought the ruin that eventually became our Spanish home, the former owner did not know how to write her name on the sales contract. Granted she was over 90, but I had not expected to find illiteracy …

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Does anybody sleep on Andalusian summer nights?

General WritingKaretheJuly 18, 20190

Norwegians sing about not wasting precious time sleeping during their luminous summer nights. And with those long and dark winters, who can blame them?

I have noted however, a similar nocturnal awakeness phenomenon here in the Spanish south. In our …

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