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plaza de españa

20 Wednesday Oct 2010

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After YEARS of restoration work the beautiful Plaza de España reopened this past weekend. I waited until Monday to check it out and tried to recreate the first time I ever saw the place, back in September 1993. I’d seen it on my map so I knew it was a semi-circular building and I’d read that it was designed by Anibal Gonzalez and built as the Spanish pavillion for the 1929 Ibero-American Expo, but nothing had prepared me for what I saw when I turned the corner of the North Tower…
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semana santa 2010

29 Monday Mar 2010

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Here we go again…

And no, they are not copying the KKK … it’s the other way round. Though to date nobody has ever been able to tell me the origins of these penitent costumes, other than to say that it would be immodest for a penitent to show their face. So okay, that explains the hood, but not the pointy hat thang.

Yesterday was the beginning of Semana Santa – Palm Sunday. People thronged to Sevilla from the suburbs and villages all decked out in their best Palm Sunday attire. My eyes! I took a few pics but decided it would be too cruel to post them. And now for the next seven days I shall be a prisoner in my apartment (stone’s throw from the Cathedral). Seriously no way of getting out my front door most of the time.  What fun!

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azahar’s forum

06 Wednesday Jan 2010

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azahar’s forum

My new Seville forum will “go live” tomorrow, which means that I’ll be announcing it on Sevilla Tapas, Twitter, Facebook…

Before that happens, please feel welcome to visit the site and then offer any last-minute feedback here. It may not seem like it but quite a lot of work went into making this forum look a bit more personal … this is the orginal forum template. There are still a few tweaks I want to make (and it is not working well on IE – no surprise there), but for the moment I just want to be sure that people find it user-friendly, easy to navigate, etc.

Oh, and also let me know if you found it easy to register. 😉

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off to málaga!

04 Friday Dec 2009

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Yay! Going to Málaga!

Manolo called me last weekend and said it looked like he wasn’t going to be using his Málaga apartment this long weekend after all and so it would be okay for me to stay there instead of in the Marbella apartment. Now this makes a difference! First of all, it’s quite easy and cheap to get to Málaga by train (Marbella would have been two bus rides and I had no idea about the connections) and of course Málaga is where I really wanted to go. Sure I’d still like to go to the new Marks & Spencer in Marbella and get some mince pies, but I can do that Saturday afternoon and then spend the rest of the time in Málaga. The apartment is on that jutty outy bit in the middle of the port (on the map). I’m so excited!

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