When I travelled to Spain and Portugal for holidays and meetings I realised that my knowledge of Iberian history and culture was nothing short of shocking. It was very disturbingly Anglo-centric, much more about how we Brits interacted with the peninsula rather than anything of its own history.
When I subsequently bought a home in Spain I thought that this might mean I would learn more, perhaps by some form of osmosis. It was my sudden recognition of how appallingly uninformed I was that drove me to remedy it by researching and writing ‘1492 and all that!’
With this goal I set off on an eventful and valuable journey for me and I hope that other ex-pats amd visitors to Iberia might enjoy coming along for the ride.
When I subsequently bought a home in Spain I thought that this might mean I would learn more, perhaps by some form of osmosis. It was my sudden recognition of how appallingly uninformed I was that drove me to remedy it by researching and writing ‘1492 and all that!’
With this goal I set off on an eventful and valuable journey for me and I hope that other ex-pats amd visitors to Iberia might enjoy coming along for the ride.
