03 Saturday Sep 2022
Posted in art, casa azahar, cats, caturday, home
It’s Caturday and here is Morcilla admiring my newly framed print of Casa Morales by local artist (and vecino) @alfredorfz expertly framed by Cuadros Venecia. Thank you so much for the print Reyes Morales, I love it (and you!).
02 Friday Sep 2022
Posted in covid, health & happiness, sevilla, tapas tours, work
For the past week or so I’ve been looking forward to this day with both delight and dread because, although I love doing my food and wine tours, I’m also very aware that Covid is still a clear and present danger. Not that you’d know it from the way people are behaving and the fact that our government is only testing (some) over 60s with and have all but given up on any preventative measures. So now I will be meeting up with travellers who have been going all over the place maskless and for the most part not testing themselves. This is worrying. But I also have to pay my rent. I have been looking at other ways to make a living but, so far, nothing has panned out. Anyhow, wish me luck.
01 Thursday Sep 2022
Posted in art, retail therapy, sevilla
I’ve passed by this little alley maybe a gazillion times over the years, but today was the first time I’ve been down it (at least that I can recall). I was on the hunt for a picture frame (more on that later) and saw online that an art shop in one of the pedestrian shopping streets had their framing workshop just around the corner. It’s a family-run place called Cuadros Venecias that has been in business for over a hundred years and what a cool experience it was. I even got a tour of the back rooms, though didn’t go upstairs (the workspace covers three floors!). All shopping should be this fun and interesting. Stay tuned for the finished product (should have it by Monday).
31 Wednesday Aug 2022
30 Tuesday Aug 2022
Posted in architecture, sevilla
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Koker is a chain of Spanish women’s clothing shops that has recently moved to Sevilla, and specifically into the old Casa Ruiz location in calle Sierpes, a jewellery shop that had been family-run for generations. Once Koker took over the premises they decided to paint over the marble and bronze façade, apparently without permission from the city council, resulting in a public outcry that spread across social media platforms and the press. The result was that the work was halted and the company was ordered to remove the paint. The photo above was taken this week and it’s not sure if this is the best that can be done as you can still see paint embedded in some of the cracks and pores of the marble. Also they have left the wood trim white, which is quite jarring. It’ll be interesting to see if the shop is successful.
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