Spain, Day 5. Fuengirola Feria.

 A cloudy start but clearing to give a hot and cloudless afternoon. It was International Feria day today so we went down to watch the parade and wander around the food festival before more grilled sardines on the seafront. Smashing. 

Then it was back to the villa and a walk up into the hills behind. This area is part of the Sierra de Mijas and is thermo-meditarranean and predesert scrub. I loved it. It supports many unfamiliar and aromatic plants as well as plenty of birds and butterflies, notably sardinian warbler, thekla's lark, pallid swift, woodchat shrike, southern speckled wood and painted lady butterflies. We had excellent, though distant, views of woodchat shrike and sardinian warbler.

Andalucia, April 2018. Day 7

For our final day we decided to potter round Seville and then revisit Feria as it hadn't been appropriate to take my camera yesterday.  The weather was perfect, so although it has been mixed during our week here, our memories are of warm Andalucian sun.
We caught the bus into Alameda, one of our favourite Sevillan locations and enjoyed a lazy second breakfast in the sun.  We took great pleasure in wandering through the now familiar streets of Seville in the sun looking for a pleasant spot for lunch, settling on La Flores on the Trianan bank of the Guadalquiver with views across to the cathedral.  Already the streets were busy and colourful with people in their Feria finery.
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Then it was onto Feria again.  We love it.  Absolutely brilliant, colourful, busy, friendly and beautiful.

Eventually it was time to drag ourselves away but we couldn't resist stopping first for chocolate and churros and then beer and rebujito before wending our way back to Plaza del Duquo to catch the buss home and cook la cena ready for Beth getting home from work.
Sadly that was our time in Seville over once more.  Come August Beth will be living in Nottingham where she will join her partner Alejandro but hopefully it will not be our last visit to this wonderful city.