Two very dear friends are coming to visit!
They’re coming tonight and will be in Sevilla for about 10 days. They were last here about three years ago, just before Nog came for his ‘holiday’, so he’s never met them in person. Though we all know each other from h2g2.
So I’m quite excited about seeing them after I finish my classes. No doubt there’ll be quite a few new tapa blog photos to show you before they head back to London. 🙂
~ pic is Best Buddies by Keith Haring ~
casa azahar 
i like tapas and i like Haring. I’d probably like sevilla if I ever got there…
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I’m sure you would, nursemyra, and Nog & I would be very happy to give you a ‘tapa tour’.
So it’s not quite another ‘morning after’ as it’s now half past 12, but I’m still in bed drinking coffee so it feels like morning.
A lovely time was had by all on our first night together, though finding a tapa bar that wasn’t totally packed at 10.30 on a Friday night proved more than somewhat difficult. We finally opted for the Giralda dining room and shared some raciones (basically, large tapas).
Afterwards we wandered over to Flaherty for a nightcap and somehow ended up closing the place around 3.30 am … something that I recall tends to happen quite frequently when S&S are in town.
The dinner photos can be seen here – the three pics under the photo of the dining room. Delicious they were, and S&S were very patient about me rearranging the table for photos before anyone was allowed to eat (Nog is used to it by now). 🙂
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I’m getting a bit long in the tooth for 3 am nights out, and consequently feeling a little fragile right now. But it was a lovely evening with great food and great company.
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Isn’t terrible when you realise at a certain age that you can either have wine with dinner or stay up late…
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Tell me about it. S&S spent the afternoon walking around town and then went to watch the rugby at Flaherty.
Meanwhile, it’s 6.30 pm and I’ve spent the afternoon in my pj’s watching The West Wing.
But I must shower and get dressed soon as we’re meeting up at 8 o’clock. It turns out Sara is fancying spinach for dinner and I know just the place.
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I could seriously get used to this …
Just home from tapas and a few drinks out and about. We ate at Las Teresas tonight – you can see us and our tapas (well, raciones actually) in photos 7-12.
I did feel a little guilty because just after ordering some more food my neighbour Joseph (who was sitting at the bar next to our table) asked if I wanted to see his newest holiday apartment across the street, and so I went with him to have a look. While I was gone the mushrooms and gambas came and nobody touched them until I got back so I could take a photo first. Awww…
And here is the apartment I saw – it’s gorgeous! I recommend Joseph’s apartments to anyone coming here for more than three days (and really, why come for less?). They are all located in the centre, they are all beautiful and they cost about the same – or less – as staying at a hotel.
Casa Doña Teresa
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Hi Az, I´m about to cry because of the nostalgia. On seeing you I´ve been remembering my Granada and the tapa tours my friends and I used to do. In Granada tapas are free, and in some places are as big as a ración.
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I know in Madrid there are many good places, but I live in a village not in the City.
Granada is a wonderful town to walk, it´s beautiful…
I will survive.
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I’d love to go back to Granada, Maria. I remember the free tapas very well, but as you only get them when you order a drink it’s easy to get quite tipsy.
Next time we go I’ll definitely ask for some good tapa bar recommendations. We stayed at this hotel las time and I think we’d stay there again because it’s very pretty and in a good location.
Casa del Capitel Nazari
Here are a few photos we took. It was before we had the digital camera so they’re not very good. Also long before my blogs, so there are no food pictures. 🙂
Granada photos
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Oh, and I’ve edited comment 6, adding a bit of stuff. Wasn’t quite with it at 1.40am… *hic*
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*sob*
…and here am I sitting at w*rk, with a cup of rather cold tea and some crumbs of crisp bread…
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Well never mind, dq … just back from a lovely meal with S&S at Modesto (no new pics as we mostly ended up eating the usual faves). But that’ll be pretty much it for us until maybe the weekend.
Gotta work and gotta sleep . . .
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aaargh!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even if I’ve returned from lunch (rice and a rather leathery mulligan stew) your piccies make me HUNGRY!
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Mmmmm… leathery mulligan stew. 😕
This being our usual Wednesday tapa night, Nog and I met S&S for a nice selection of tapas at Bodeguita Romero. Again, no new photos as we mostly had the usual stuff, though I did miss a couple of photo ops (dang).
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Are you sure you haven’t been a professional tormenter in an earlier existence?
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heh, heh… so have you started planning your trip to Sevilla yet, dq?
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Oh, and I was wrong about no new photos during our meal out at Modesto the other night – they are here (photos 15 & 16). We also had the tenderloin shown in photo 14 and a fritura. 🙂
S&S missed out on a new discovery last night – Bodega Antonio Romero. By the time we got in touch in the evening they had already eaten, so Nog & I stopped in there for a snack on our way home from shopping. Like a ditz I forgot to take a pic of the first tapa we ordered – a piripi – so when the people next to us ordered three of them I shamelessly asked if I could take a photo. Anyhow, this place (run by the brother of the guy who owns Bodeguita Romero ) was recommended by one of my students earlier in the day and I was told to try the piripi – a bacon, cheese and tomato butty that is definitely more than just a sum of its parts. We will definitely be back.
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This seems to be the appropriate place to drop by and a) report that we got home safely and b) thank az and Nog for being such marvelous ‘hosts’ while we were in Sevilla.
As always in Sevilla, the company was fantastic, the food sublime and the city gorgeous. We went to Sevilla for a very specific type of holiday (r&r, basically), and it was just what we needed.
Though I think it will be some time before our friends forget that final Saturday night in Flaherty’s…altogether now ‘Swing Looow, sweet chariot’…
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Hey, you’re home already! Yes the live showing of the rugby match last night at Flaherty is an experience I won’t soon forget. 🙂
And I am reminded that I have not yet posted the pics from our last lunch together yesterday at El Rinconcillo…
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