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22nd October 2016 Art and starchitecture in northern Spain

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Fiona Dunlop is a seasoned travel and food-writer who has been ‘abroad’ for much of her life. She doesn’t count countries but aims to dig deep beneath the surface of the places she visits. Food has increasingly become her focus, without forgetting art, architecture and design. Andalucia (Spain) is her second home, but French her second language!

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#autumn #autumncolours #clissoldpark #londonlife

#autumn #autumncolours #clissoldpark #londonlife

Today's march for Palestine in central London : #f

Today's march for Palestine in central London
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#freepalestine #gaza #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #ceasefire #londonmarch2023

The shocking scene two days ago in the West Bank v

The shocking scene two days ago in the West Bank village of Burin. Israeli soldiers now patrol night & day to intimidate & occasionally make arrests. They even shoot Palestinian teenagers - dead. This is a peaceful village that I know well, harassed by extremist settlers for years. Now villagers daren't go out & certainly can't harvest their olives - for many their only livelihood. A life?
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#westbank #IDF #israeliarmy #burin #endtheoccupation #palestine #ceasefirenow🇵🇸

Guess who was here? 😳25 years ago Blair rolled

Guess who was here? 😳25 years ago Blair rolled up in Cordoba for a copa with his friend, the guitarist Paco Peña. His name lives on in the fabulous @bodegas_campos, a rambling restaurant / tapas bar / wine cellar dating from 1908. A big favourite of mine that featured in my book New Tapas - another life!
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#winebarrels #bodega #celebritycasks #tonyblair #winecellar #restaurant #finedining #bodegascampos #cordoba #andalucia

Hard to beat an authentic cordobesa salmorejo - th

Hard to beat an authentic cordobesa salmorejo - the thick creamy version of gazpacho sprinkled with diced jamón & boiled egg & that ubiquitous trickle of olive oil. Perfect hot day stuff @bodegasmezquita in what was once a medieval hammam
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#salmorejo #chilledsoup #cordobanspecial #lunchstarter #cordoba #andalucia

Córdoba's Centro de Creación Contemporánea de A

Córdoba's Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucia (C3A) - a spectacular building on the south side of the Guadalquivir river houses vast, playful spaces for installations, multimedia works & workshops. Nieto y Sobejano designed it to reference the architecture of Al-Andalus in 21st c brutalist style, above all in the 100-m long facade of 1319 hexagonal openings. At night this lights up in an incredible show... tbc.
inside an intriguingly iconoclastic exhibition by Victoria Gil - "Sewing the River" runs till March 2024. And free entry! A definite must
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#c3a #artcentre #centrodecreacioncontemporaneadeandalucia #victoriagil #hexagonalopenings #nietoysobejano #Córdoba #andalucia

Crescent moon Nov 17 : : #sunset #lasubbetica #cre

Crescent moon Nov 17
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#sunset #lasubbetica #crescentmoon #thinkingofgaza #andalucia

No shortage of palm trees or scintillating skies i

No shortage of palm trees or scintillating skies in Cordoba. Here the minaret of the Mezquita (mosque) converted into a bell-tower overlooks the patio of orange trees - slide to a simple backstreet
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#palmtrees #blue #orangetrees #mezquita #minaret #belltower #cordoba #andalucia

The pinnacle of Muslim culture in Europe #ceasefir

The pinnacle of Muslim culture in Europe
#ceasefirenow #gaza #palestine

My all-time favourite vermouth at Rafi's in Priego

My all-time favourite vermouth at Rafi's in Priego. Hits da spot
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#vermouth #class #aperitivo #olives #priegodecórdoba #andalucia

Village with a view : : #dusk #bougainvillea #view

Village with a view
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#dusk #bougainvillea #view #lasubbetica #andalucia

I'm there in spirit - impossible not to be marchin

I'm there in spirit - impossible not to be marching for peace.
The 1937 bombing of Guernica left some 2,000 dead & was known about worldwide thanks to Picasso's powerful painting. As Gaza's death toll approaches 11,000, hundreds of thousands are demonstrating for a ceasefire worldwide.
When will Western leaders wake up?
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#gaza #demonstration #guernica #ceasefirenow
📷@dishupgoodness

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