26 Saturday Sep 2009
Posted in food & drink, photohunt, photos
Today’s Photohunter theme is “twisted”.
These are deep-fried langostines with potato threads twisted around them, at one of my favourite tapas bars in Seville, Bodeguita Romero. Mmmm…
22 Tuesday Sep 2009
Posted in food & drink, friends, photos, twitter
Well, me and Picasa.
I had no idea these options existed until someone tweeted about it the other day. I am definitely going to have a LOT of fun with these new toys. This collage is of a lunch with Sara & Steve last week at Becerrita, and of cocktails on the rooftop terrace at the EME hotel afterwards. You can see a couple more examples below…
16 Wednesday Sep 2009
Posted in food & drink, friends, holidays, morocco, restaurants, sevilla, spain
Ever since Susan & I went to Morocco in Febuary we have been all about the cous. Though attempts to find couscous as good as we had in Tangier after we got back proved fruitless. We’ve both even tried making it at home and sharing our experiences – as much as possible from across the pond. And so I’m sure she will be a wee bit envious when she sees the gorgeous Moroccan lunch (including couscous!) that Sara treated us to at As-Sawirah yesterday …
10 Thursday Sep 2009
Posted in books & writing, computers, e-books, food & drink, geekiness, internet, publishing, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas, travel, work
Ever since my Twitter buddy WeeRascal showed up here last spring with most of Sevilla Tapas printed out in his briefcase I’ve been thinking about publishing a small tapas guidebook. And more recently I’ve been thinking that the easiest and cheapest way to start off would be in e-book form. One smallish obstacle … I have no idea how to even start doing this.
What I have found out is that I can write my e-book as a PDF, which meant looking for some free software, and I have since downloaded OpenOffice.org, though I’m told there are lots of other free applications that will turn almost any document into a PDF. And so I am going to spend this weekend getting familiar with OpenOffice.
Meanwhile, if anyone out there can offer me any help, advice, info – including on how to publish once I get the book written – I would greatly appreciate it. Oh, and in the simplest terms possible please. If you talk in “the nerd-person” I am sure to get lost.
07 Monday Sep 2009
Posted in food & drink, health & happiness, home
casa azahar 