Do you remember this song? It was actually written about San José in California, not San José in Costa Rica but that should not stop us hijacking the title for this article. Costa Rica is a beautiful tropical country just north of the equator wedged between the Carribean and the Pacific Ocean. Its southernly neighbour is Panama and to the north runs the border with Nigaracua. The country has a central spine made up by a volcanic mountain range that gently slopes to the open seas on either...
Sevilla is a historic city and legend has it that it was founded by the Greek hero Hercules. It was then renamed Hispalis by the Romans who made it the capital of a large Iberian Roman province. More than enough reason to honour these ancient founders of this wonderful city. After the discovery of the Americas in 1492, Sevilla became the central hub for seafarers, accumulating wealth and people in the process. Just north of the centre was an area which was often inundated by the Guadalquivir...