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mar

28 Wednesday Dec 2022

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mar

Back in early October I was sitting at a bar (for a change) in Triana with my friend Lucy and we started chatting with a woman sitting next to us. It turned out she “knew” me from Instagram and so we decided that one day we’d meet up and do some Tapas Research together. Well, what with me getting sick immediately afterwards (gastroenteritis and then covid) and with Mar travelling and then getting sick herself we finally managed to get together today. Met up at La Cayetana and enjoyed a long and very chatty lunch. Mar has a wonderful Instagram account full of great photos and stories about Sevilla. Check it out… @Lost-In-Seville.

Plans are afoot to do have more regular research lunches and maybe also some cultural walks. I reckon between the two of us we know practically EVERYTHING about Sevilla so we can educate each other and have fun too.

welcome to guirilandia

28 Monday Nov 2022

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guirilandia (1)

Not surprising to learn that 6 out of 10 dwellings in the Barrio Sant Cruz (my old ‘hood) are now tourist apartments. But it was a bit shocking to find out that it is the most tourist saturated neighbourhood IN SPAIN. And these stats are from 2019 so things are actually much worse now. I’ve  been living in Museo for the past five years and even here new tourist apartment buildings – ENTIRE BUILDINGS – are popping up all over the place. Likewise new hotels. Everywhere.

You don’t need much of a brain to figure out that without neighbours there is no neighbourhood. That without neighbours the entire local infrastructure becomes geared to serving tourists, which is quite hideous. No more corner stores, fruit and veg shops, book shops, no more newsagents… small family run bars replaced by sleek and shiny corporate replicants. And instead crass commercialism abounds with tacky souvenir shops vying for space alongside mediocre tapas bars, the streets flooded with dazed tourists thinking they are experiencing the REAL DEAL. The irony of course being that the very thing they have come to see no longer exists and they don’t even know it. I still love Sevilla so much, but I also miss her.

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flamenco day!

16 Wednesday Nov 2022

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flamenco 2022

On 16 November 2010 Flamenco was designated a UNESCO
World Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Oleee! 💃🏾🎶👏

hallowe’en 2022

31 Monday Oct 2022

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haloween 2022

When I first moved here (1993) the only reference you’d see to Hallowe’en was in Marks & Spencer. Nowadays we have… this. Oh, and they’re animated too. Sevilla gets more like just one big tourist attraction every day.

sevilla en los bares

21 Friday Oct 2022

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sevilla en los bares

If there was ever a book written for me to read it THIS IS IT. Many thanks to Mar @perdeseporsevilla for bringing it to my attention. We met about three weeks ago while I was having some tapas with my friend Lucy at the newly reopened Antigua Casa Diego (Mar was sitting next to us) and we’ve been Insta-Twitter pals ever since. Although the book was out of print, with the help of Twitter I found a vendor in Valencia with a second hand copy, so it is (we hope) winging its way to me as we speak. So very excited about this. Written by a local jouranlist and historian who has written several books about Sevilla, but this one is from the perspective of the bars, their histories, etc. Can’t wait.

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