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Carnaval, Cadiz, Carnaval de Cadiz, family

Carnaval de Cadiz, family style

February 18, 2013by Fiona Flores Watson 18 Comments

It started as a casual conversation with a complete stranger outside a restaurant. He was from Cadiz, and wanted to know if we were going to Carnaval? Hmm, not sure, […]

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Beaches, Events, Family, Fiestas, Food and Drink, History, Humour, Kids, Music
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False friends and other fine messes

January 21, 2013by Fiona Flores Watson 77 Comments

One of the things that always astonishes – and depresses – me about long-term expats here in Spain is how many of them have a grasp of Spanish somewhere between […]

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Blogs about Andalucia

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  • Hayley Comments
  • I heart Mondegreens
  • Lorna's Life in Spain
  • My work blog (andalucia.com)
  • Old Fools Blog
  • Piccavey.com
  • Spain for Pleasure
  • Sunshine and Siestas

Blogs about Seville

  • Azahar’s Sevilla blog
  • Becoming Sevillana
  • Cultura de Sevilla
  • I Know a Little Place in Seville
  • My work blog (andalucia.com)
  • Sevilla Tapas
  • Sevillan Life
  • Sunshine and Siestas

Blogs about Spain

  • Asturian Diary
  • Family Life in Spain
  • La Tortuga Viajera
  • Majorcan Pearls
  • Mooching Around Spain
  • My Spanish Adventure
  • South of Watford
  • Spain Holiday
  • Spanish Sabores
  • The Artichoke Adventures
  • The Spain Scoop
  • Very Bored in Catalonia
  • Vida London

My blogs and blogsites

  • My professional blogsite
  • My work blog (andalucia.com)

My favourite writers about Spain

  • Jason Webster – has written about flamenco, Al-Andalus, the Civil War, plus detective novels about a bullfighting-hating policeman.
  • Old Fools Blog

Non-Spain expat blogs

  • Archers of Okula
  • Clueless Immigrant
  • Field Notes from Fatherhood

Parenting blogs

  • Asturian Diary
  • Bibsey Mama
  • Digamama
  • English Mum
  • Field Notes from Fatherhood
  • Mum Abroad
  • Nonstopmama
  • Quiero Milk
  • Very Bored in Catalonia

Travel blogs

  • Field Notes from Fatherhood
  • Inside the Travel Lab

Websites about Andalucia

  • Michelle Chaplow
  • Tertulia Andaluza

Where to buy books on Spain

  • Books4Spain

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