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Sleepyhead Luna 🌙
18 Saturday Sep 2021
Posted in casa azahar, cats, caturday, home
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Sleepyhead Luna 🌙
17 Friday Sep 2021
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 Julio, Reyes & Pepe
Further to Monday’s “judge not lest ye be judged” post… I am thrilled to tell you that this one is nothing like it! And since it’s not often something like what happened the other day happens to me I thought I’d share. This actually took place on Monday while I was at Casa Morales organising the final touches for my first Sevilla Sherry Tasting of the year. I went there with Peter to try out a couple of pairings and Reyes was there, so she joined us. Then Pepe, the owner of La Fresquita, stopped by to say hello, and Julio Revilla also stopped by but also ended up joining us.
I first met Julio many years ago at an event where we ended up sitting together at the same table, so we got to know each other a bit. At the time he was the president of the Concorcio del Jabugo but these days he has returned to “simply” producing some of the best jamón and other Ibérico de Bellota products in the world, Sierra Mayor, which includes a Guiness record breaking jamón that sold for 12,000 euros. But I digress.
16 Thursday Sep 2021
Posted in sevilla

On September 16th 1993 (at 8 pm!) I arrived in Sevilla from Salamanca with two cats in tow, and I’ve been living here ever since. Today will be quite a different celebration from last year’s as I will be celebrating my 28th Sevilla anniversary this evening with a Sevilla Tapas Tour, which somehow feels appropriate. I mean, whodda thought 28 years ago that I would end up becoming Queen of Tapas? Had a lovely pre-anniversary lunch with Peter yesterday at a (fabulous!) newly opened restaurant, Plato Jondo, but today I am saving myself. And it will be nice to go out in the evening, which is still something I don’t usually do. So here is to 28 years and hopefully many more! 🥂
15 Wednesday Sep 2021
Posted in sevilla, sherry, sherry week, tapas, tapas bars

A few scenes from yesterday’s Sevilla Sherry Tasting… my first this year and it was so much fun. My new venue for this is the fabulous Casa Morales, and I couldn’t be happier. Great location with excellent wines and tapas. Salud! 🥂

14 Tuesday Sep 2021
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Last night I fell asleep to the sound of rain falling on the patio roof, something I’d not experienced for several months, and thought about how nice it is to listen to the rain when you’re all dry and cosy inside, especially when all tucked up in bed with a couple of cats. Then I thought about the wildfires that had been raging in the Málaga mountains since last Wednesday and hoped that these couple of rainy days would help put them out.
Woke up this morning to the wonderful news that the fires were now under control and sent the above tweet from bed… a few minutes later it dawned on me that IT’S NOT MONDAY, IT’S TUESDAY. Oops. So I corrected myself in a follow up tweet but not before getting a few “you need coffee!” type of replies. Which was true of course, but it’s equally true that I often don’t know what day it is any more. Whatever! It’s a happy day. And I’m extra happy because I am doing my first sherry tasting of the year this afternoon. So Happy Tuesday everyone! 🙂