Monthly Archives: October 2010

done! for now…

11 Monday Oct 2010

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Squeaked in with two hours to spare last night, meeting my first SimonSeeks deadline. Got all 25 hotels up and, although there will probably still be a bit of tweaking to do (waiting to hear back from my editor), the first leg is finished and I can breathe a sigh of relief. Also very importantly – I can now send in my first invoice!

Two more deadlines to go: November 5th for restaurants and November 26th for all remaining copy (museums, attractions, nightlife, shopping, etc). Anyhow, check out the hotels page and let me know what you think – feedback, constructive criticism and suggestions are most welcome.

Seville Expert’s Top 25 Hotels

are you masculine or feminine?

10 Sunday Oct 2010

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You Are 65% Feminine, 35% Masculine
 

You are in touch with your feminine side.

Sensitive, intuitive, and caring are all words that describe you.

You tend to go with how you feel. You trust your intuition.

And you’re just masculine enough to relate to both men and women.

I’m always surprised by how many people think that SevillaTapas on Twitter is male, though this also used to happen to me years ago on h2g2, which is when I first started using the nickname azahar. But now here is the scientific proof to show that I am indeed more feminine than masculine! Though I’ve always thought that my Twitter avatar for SevillaTapas is quite feminine. Go figure.

cata de jerez

08 Friday Oct 2010

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Last night Jessica and I went to a fabulous sherry tasting (cata de jerez) at La Azotea Vinos & Más, which was both fun and educational. I’ve never known much about Spanish sherries and so it was great that José Argudo from Bodegas Gonzalez Byass took us through the whole sherry-making process while we sampled ten – yes that’s right, ten!! – different sherries. From the palest driest mosto to sweet musky fino/oloroso blends, we sipped our way through it all, even sampling some lovely 30-year-old wines.

Afterwards Juan brought over a jamón from their La Azotea restaurant across the street and we all had a bit to eat, though not nearly enough for the amount of wine we’d had, so Jessica and I went off to the Alameda for a late night snack, ending up at Al Aljibe.

We had a great time catching up on all our news and I’m really glad that Jess is going to be in town for awhile and not out doing field work in Doñana so much. It’s nice having her “home” again.

[also posted on azahar’s sevilla blog]

on fire

07 Thursday Oct 2010

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Remember a couple of weeks ago when I said I didn’t have time to be so busy? Well, things just got busier. Not only am I working like crazy to meet my SimonSeeks deadline on Sunday (just six more hotels to go!) but, as well as having a tapas tour this week and writing blog posts for Victoria, a couple of translations have come in – that also have to be done by Monday! – and on top of that I’m taking out a visiting UK travel writer tomorrow and will be attending a sherry tasting this evening (research for an article – honest!). This is where Nog is really getting a chance to shine because I know I wouldn’t be able to handle all this work on my own and he has really been helping out a lot. Now all we need is to get paid…

Still loving it, even though sometimes it feels like both me and my laptop are on fire.