21 Monday Sep 2026
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Damn, I’m going to be in Jerez on Thursday otherwise I would LOVE to be here. An organised protest after last week’s scandalous abuse of public space and funds for a private party hosted by the city council and Andalucía regional government. Bring your own chair!🪑
20 Sunday Sep 2026
Posted in music, sunday song, video
19 Saturday Sep 2026
Posted in casa azahar, cats, caturday
18 Friday Sep 2026
Posted in social media, wine
The other day my friend Jane posted a link to this rather amazing interactive global wine terroir map with 4,303,693 vineyards and 104,330 wineries across 90 countries. For every single vineyard on the map, users can access highly specific geospatial data, including elevation, solar radiation, and slope, alongside critical viticultural metrics like soil composition, the Huglin index, and average temperatures during the vine growing season.
Winemakers are invited to claim their winery profiles for free, allowing them to update tasting room hours, claim their specific vineyard parcels, and update data on planted grape varieties. A geolocation system also allows users to locate nearby wineries and receive navigation instructions. Check it out! ⬇️
17 Thursday Sep 2026
Posted in sevilla
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Just when you thought things couldn’t get any tackier around here here is the Plaza Virgen de Los Reyes, next to the Cathedral and Archbishop’s palace, all decked out for a PRIVATE event, looking like a cheesy wedding venue, complete with catering and portable chandaliers. Wtf?
Photo sent to me on Bluesky by my friend Robert Wright
At the top, protest posters by Sevilla Dibujada on Instagram.
For the record…
On Thursday, a dinner was held in the Plaza Virgen de los Reyes. The 20th-anniversary celebration of the society magazine Escaparate produced unique images that spread across screens at retweet speed: dozens of white tables, a catering setup complete with deep fryers and refrigerators, coloured spotlights projected onto the ancient Cathedral, a bugle band, and hundreds of guests from the worlds of nobility, business, sports, and politics—led by the mayor and the president of the Regional Government.
In Seville, the 2007 ordinance regulating the use of public spaces in the Historic Center for ephemeral activities and events states in Article 11.1 that “the occupation of the Plaza Virgen de los Reyes and Plaza del Triunfo is prohibited.”
