Welcome to Andalusian Traveller!

I am Penelope Lao: Environmentalist, Anthropologist and licensed Andalusian tour guide from Seville. After many years working as a tour guide and trip leader, I decided to start my own blog about the trips and visits I make throughout my country while working or during my vacations.

I am madly in love with history, and Al-Andalus has always been my favorite historical period to study and explain to visitors. Gastronomy, and especially wine, is my weakness; there is nothing else that I like more than a visit to a winery and a good tapa well-paired with a nice wine. I always travel with a book and I try to get in contact with the people, talk to them and ask a lot of questions.

I am a slow traveller, so I go slow and enjoy the views, the aroma in the streets and the local music. I do not like waiting in line but I like sitting down in a public square or a bar’s terrace to watch people walking by. I walk, and walk and walk, to avoid missing anything so I can be captivated by the place and its atmosphere.