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29 Wednesday Jan 2025
Posted in architecture, sevilla, spain
11 Wednesday Dec 2024
Posted in architecture, art, history, retail therapy, sevilla, shopping, welcome
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The oldest independent shop in Sevilla (founded in 1856) this gorgeous stationers is a wondrous Aladdin’s cave full of any possible thing you can imagine in paper form. I just popped in for a pedestrian order of a refill for my old agenda and was taken back to not-so-long-ago times when there were several such shops in the city, selling all manner of things. From books to toys, houseware and hardware items, fabrics, art prints and posters, jewellery, fans and shawls, hats and gloves, specialty foods and wines… each small shop brimming with charm and personality and often one-of-a-kind items. Sadly all but gone now as chains take over and push the independents out. Sigh…

27 Wednesday Nov 2024
Posted in architecture, art, sevilla, tapas bars
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Before lockdown 2020 my neighbour Alfredo RodrÃguez was working at Barra Baja, one of my favourite restaurants in the city. Then of course everything stopped. But not Alfredo. He started creating a series of Sevilla tapas bar façades that he would sketch while out on the few walks we were allowed and then finish at home. This led to a whole other line of business for him that eventually became his new full time job. I have two of his limited prints at home, of Casa Eme and Casa Morales. Then Alfonso had the idea to make an annual Sevilla almanac with a selection his ever expanding collection of façades on each page.
This is the 2025 L’Armanaque de Sevilla, hot off the presses, and once again I have also picked one up for Deb and Paul like I did last year.
25 Friday Oct 2024
Posted in architecture, bluesky, home, hope, sevilla

This is one of several of my dream houses here, where I would imagine some day having a top floor apartment. I mean, it probably never would have happened anyhow, but now that this landmark building houses tourist apartments, hope is dashed forever.
19 Friday Jul 2024
Posted in architecture, sevilla, spain

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