I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 807. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about battles and

castles, architecture and olives, paradors, and reconquistadorsors as we go to the province of Hyen in Andalusia, Spain.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Cheyenne. I'd like to welcome to the show Molly Sears Piccove from pickavie.com that's p i c c c a v e y dot com and also

Spain food shirpas.com and Molly has come to talk to us about a region of

Andalusia that I didn't know until very recently and you may also not know.

Molly welcome to the show. Thank you. and you may also not know.

Molly, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm happy to talk to you about Heen today.

And that's somewhere that is spelled J-A-E-N, even though it sounds like it's with an H.

Well, and first I'd like to get up front here and thank Molly for her patience.

We've had a couple technical difficulties and at least one idiot at the keyboard on this end of the call that have caused some problems so we're doing some re-recording here.

But I appreciate Molly's patience because this is a place that I think you should know about.

Now, Molly, first of all, we're talking about Spain, but your accent is not Spanish.

Oh, that's right.

What's your connection with Spain?

I was actually born in Nottinghamshire in the UK and I've been living in Spain since 1998.

So I moved in 1998 to Barcelona and now I live in Grenada in the south of Spain in Andalusia.

And the reason I'm so immersed in Spain is because when I was 12 years old I learned Spanish and did a school

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