‘Seville is still a lot cheaper than Ireland. You can still buy a coffee for €1.80’
Like many Wild Geese featured in this column over the years, the decision to build a life abroad often involves an intervention from Cupid. When Kerry-born Gráinne Walsh went to Seville to study at the Universidad de Sevilla on an Erasmus programme in 1996, she found love in the form of a local man, Alfonso. Thirty years on the couple have raised a family of four children and are enjoying all the attractions of living in the historic southern Spanish city. Walsh’s first spell in Seville was part of a wider international business and languages degree at DCU. She fell in love with the city straight away. “I came in mid-September and loved the blue skies and warm weather. A bottle of decent wine cost 350 pesetas (about €2). You could go out at 11pm when you would be coming home from the pub at home.”Walsh returned to Dublin to…