The Heat of the South - should be before The Algarve

Seville - hot

Still under construction!!!


Flamingos at lake Fuente de Piedra, a shallow inland salty lake. They were miles away because the lake nearly dries up in the summer time and the lookout is back at least 400m from the shoreline

Old and very healthy olives carrying a very good crop. Thousand of hectares, all appear to be irrigated.

Olives to the far horizon. A block of almonds in the mid-left of the picture.
Jo struggling up hill in 38C


A good crop of green olives

The locals fish market in old-town Seville

Pomegranates growing in the Alcazar gardens

Real Alcazar de Sevilla - an old palace in the middle of old Seville. The gardens are amazing. So green and lush in the middle of a hot, dry and dusty city

Real Alcazar de Sevilla. Various buildings have been on this site since the 8th centrury BC. a lot of the present buildings date from the mid-1700's

The main part of this construction dates from 1958!!

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