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First, some short quotations including one from Lord Byron, who famously praised the city for its \u2018oranges and women\u2019 and another from Jan Morris who wrote more poetically of the air which was \u2018heavy with jasmine and orange blossom\u2019. Then, time is devoted to writers of longer accounts. Enjoy hearing, for example, about Richard Ford\u2019s \u2018Handbook for Travellers in Spain\u2019, written in the 1830s, Laurie Lee\u2019s account of walking through Andalucia in the 1930\u2019s and the writings of Jason Webster and Edward Lewine whose more recent travelogues focus respectively on a search for the country\u2019s Arabic roots and its bullfighting tradition.\nhttps://www.citybreakspodcast.co.uk