I love Andalucia.

Advantages: Easy to reach
Disadvantages: Some local traditions aren't for animal lovers

...for ceramics and leather goods, and not too bad for clothes. They aren't cheap but they are of an excellent quality. SUMMARY Andalucia is wonderful. Get away from the tourist spots to find the real Spain, and you won't be disappointed. Great scenery, great food, and friendly locals made for a really enjoyable and relaxing break. Nice hospitals too!...

Salgirl 22.04.2001 · Read review
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andalucia has everything

Advantages: It has everything you could want in a holiday destination
Disadvantages: sometimes too hot for some at the peak of summer

...Andalucia is essentially the Costa Del Sol, it just encompasses more of the Spanish main-land. As well as the coastal areas which are jammed full of tourists (predominantly british usually), the breath-taking Spanish scenery in towns such as Granada, Ronda and Seville are all located within this beautiful region. In my short life I have visited Southern Spain a total of 5 times and from the first visit, my whole family totally fell in love with it. The laid back life-style and "manana" attitude gives your holiday a lovely relaxed feel which is such a must when you go on holiday. Coupled with that, if you have children, are all the attractions which can keep the active family occupied for a 2 week break. You have the many water parks for those swelteringly hot days and "tivoli world" located in arroyo de la miel (literally...

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CARMONA (not a back-seat driver)

Advantages: More history than you can shake a centurion's spear at
Disadvantages: May be too quiet for some

...CARMONA sits on an elevated plot of land commanding sweeping views of the Corbones valley, around 30km from Seville in Andalucia. This is a very fertile region so it's no surprise that this strategic site, one of the few high points in the area, has been settled by humans for a long time. How long? I'm not going down the road of historical time-lines, but let's just say that there is evidence of human settlement from the neolithic period. It was during the Roman occupation that the town flourished, and apparently, the old town still follows the original Roman urban plan. The defensive gates, Seville and Córdoba, are Roman, but the most important Roman site in the town has to be the Necropolis (more on that later). The town's prosperity continued under almost 500 years of Moorish occupation, and indeed, was a major player during...

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Life Is Not Just A Beach

Advantages: Plenty to see and do around Jimena De La Frontera - not for kids though. Good roads
Disadvantages: None that I can think of but maybe a lot depends on your accommodation

...I'm getting my travel knickers all in a twist - I've already posted about my autumn break in Crete, and here I am writing about my two week holiday in August in inland Andalucia, and I haven't even written about Prague yet, having been there 12 weeks prior to that Oh well, here goes?? Mention Andalucia to a lot of people and their immediate reaction is 'well, I know it's in Spain, but don't ask me where'. Mention the Costa del Sol instead and then they'll say,' OH!! THERE!' To be fair, I have done the 'beach thing' on the Costa del Sol myself, having stayed in Nerja a few times several years ago. Even then, it doesn't take long for somewhere like Nerja's admittedly pleasant attractions to wear thin, leaving me with itchy feet, so my seaside resort then becomes a base for some forays inland. On such previous holidays, I...

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SALOBRENA..... COSTA TROPICAL.

Advantages: Quiet. Lovely weather. Out of Season Heaven. Unique Villages.
Disadvantages: Too Quiet for some. Not much Night Life.

...rooms and a small aviary with a selection a birds, rabbits and chicks. Not everyones taste but the children love it. There is also a golf course just along the beach. A ten minute drive East, you will find the nearest town, Motril a Spanish home town, with a very decent hospital, two markets a week, a large park in the centre, many good shops and resturants. Very good for a small remote town. However not so remote now that Granada, 45 minutes drive North, up through the mountains from Salobrena, has opened it's airport and flights from Gatwick and Stanstead are now frequent. Salobrena is on the coast, cross the road and head north to Granada, 10 minutes up this road you will find the towns of Orgiva and Lanjaron where the purest water in Spain is bottled. The drive is quite dramatic, the narrow mountain roads are steep...

elinor.z 23.05.2005 · Read review
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If you are visiting Andalucia visit here first.

Advantages: lots of info
Disadvantages: None

...One thing I did before we went to stay in a village in Andalucia was look on the internet for information. One of the sites I came across was http://www.andalucia.com. Opening the home page there is a green information strip telling you this site started in 1996 and that it is the world's premier site for useful info about Andalucia. Under this green strip there it tells you the temperature in several of the towns in Andalucia. There are several topics that you can click on to get pages of information, information on Accommodation, destinations , holidays travel , tourism, entertainment beauty , estate agents , housing , recreation, wildlife , government, education , and a few more too . There are the small adds for jobs, flat shares, items for sale. There is a click on title to take you to what's on page. There is...

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Great place. Very hot

Advantages: Cheap, sunny, good food, sexy ladies
Disadvantages: Can get quite hot (40c), few english speakers

...If you're reading this to find out about the Costa del Sol, then this review won't be of any use to you. If, on the other hand, you are curious about the multitude of amazing places that can be found in mainland Andalucia read on - and have a look at some photos to see for yourself. Our journey began in Malaga going onto Antequera, Cordoba, Jaen, Cazorla, Segura de la Sierra, Baza, Guadix, Granada, Marbella and back to Malaga to fly home. Destinations of note included Antequera where, aside from the very beautiful moorish town, you can also visit some great national park areas - specifically El Torcal, 15kms away. Further away, about 50kms to the southwest, is El Chorro, a stunning river gorge - the highlight of our journey. Once at the gorge it is possible to clamber up a disused road towards the railway tunnels. After passing...

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Nerja

Advantages: The all-year-round good weather, the scenery and the people
Disadvantages: The fact that in 10 years time it will be far more developed than it is now.

...Nerja is on the south coast of Spain, the Costa del sol, about a 1 hour drive east of Malaga. It is a special place because it is unlike any other on the Costa del sol. Nerja has been voted the prettiest village on Costa del sol more than once. Nerja has a building restriction that means none of its buildings may be more than four stories high. This makes a huge difference as there are no large, tower-block hotels in sight. Nerja is truly multi-cultural because so many people retire out there (not just English; American, Norwegian, Dutch, French, Canadian etc). Nerja has a massive English community with its own newspaper, theatre group, shops and businesses. I know this might sound a bit colonial, but you would have to see it working to appreciate it. There is no industry in Nerja except tourism. The locals tend to want...

Motley 26.03.2001 · Read review
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To Nerja and beyond........

Advantages: It's spanish...a big plus to me
Disadvantages: It's spanish...it helps to have a phrase book

...Well actually just plain old beyond for me. I have been to Nerja but it's too expat and british for my tastes. When I travel I want to feel like I've gone abroad. I enjoy speaking broken spanish and making my phrase book work for it's money. One of the beauties of the Granada coast is just that...you can. Once you get off the new motorway at Nerja ( actually you have no option it currently ends there although I'm informed that the extension to La Herradura will be open by December 2005) and return to the coastal road or N340 you start to get back to spain as you imagine it to be. Windy roads, whitewashed villages, beautiful beaches. Even the plastic agricultural sheds start to dwindle along here as the Costa Tropical boasts an all year round mild, temperate climate. Don't get me wrong, there is tourism along this stretch of coast...

shelley40 08.08.2005 · Read review
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Nerja a dull moment

Advantages: Perfect family holiday
Disadvantages: None

...the flight with Easyjet: £960 for the four of us. Total £1640, near on half the price of the packages. The apartment was gorgeous, quite near to the beach and with a lovely roof terrace. It was very hot and we stayed out of the midday sun. All the facilities: microwave, washing machine, digital telly. Nerja is lovely. We stayed on the Burriana beach side and I think we made the right choice. Burriana Beach itself is great, with lots of cheap beachfront cafes. The gin and tonics are huge and the paella at Ayo's is the best. You can rent sunbeds and shades for around £3.00 a day and just lie back and relax. The sea was clean and warm but the waves can be a bit high at times. We ate out every lunch and dinner because it was so nice and so reasonable. There are a lot of pizza places (yes, we were in Spain) that are very good value. Our...

susanjane 12.03.2002 · Read review
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