Forests may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the hot and sunny Spanish countryside. But Spain actually has Europe’s fourth largest forest area despite several hundred years of deforestation. The tree species we find in the different regions vary. Join us on an everContinue Reading
Castile La Mancha is a large inland region bordering Andalusia to the south, Extremadura to the west, Castile and León and Madrid to the north and Aragón, Valencia and Murcia to the east. Castile La Mancha basic information and regional flag – – Size: 79.463 km2 Population (2019): ca. 2,035,500Continue Reading
Valued at over $670 million, Spanish growers export a staggering 287,000 tons of strawberries annually – making Spain the world’s largest strawberry exporter. As much as 90 percent of Spanish strawberries are grown in Andalusia, where new cultivation methods and world-leading agricultural expertise have contributed to creating what has becomeContinue Reading
The Spanish and English languages have a lot in common, with some words so similar it’s possible to guess their meaning. But building sentences and using the correct verb tenses is a different matter altogether. While expressing our frustrations on the subject, one of our Spanish friends once told usContinue Reading
Did you know the Molotov cocktail is a Spanish invention? First used by Franco’s troops during the Spanish civil war, its iconic name however, comes from the Finns when during the Winter War, the Soviet foreign minister Molotov, claimed bombing raids were actually food drops. Soviet tanks found themselves frequentContinue Reading
