Category Archives: food & drink

córdoba

31 Friday Oct 2008

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The plan had been to go to Córdoba on Friday…

But then the weather forecast started looking very iffy for the weekend. And so yesterday morning around 9am I was having coffee in bed and playing online scrabble. Looking out the bedroom window I saw a gorgeous sunshiny morning out there, so I half-jokingly sent an email to Pipocas saying it was a shame we couldn’t go to Córdoba now as the weather looked perfect and Nog didn’t have any classes until the evening. She called back and asked  – “are you serious?” – then called back five minutes later to say WE WERE GO! Forty minutes later we were all showered, dressed and at our meeting point.

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It was a wonderful day.

You can see all the photos (partially edited) below.

Córdoba photos

 

the plan is … there is no plan

20 Monday Oct 2008

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Road trip (part II) – Saturday 18th October

The next morning we both woke up around 7am, very surprised (and pleased) that we hadn’t woken up during the night … turns out that neither Susan or I sleep a lot.  As it was still early and the sun hadn’t come up yet, we enjoyed more time just chatting in the dark … man, I loved that! But eventually it got light and we were in serious need of coffee, so we got up and headed out in search of brekky…

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what is this plan of which you speak?

20 Monday Oct 2008

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Road trip (part I) – Friday 17th October

The only plan for the entire trip was that at some point we had to get to Gibraltar so I could stock up on underwear and socks at Marks & Spencer. Other than that, Susan and I were free agents.  Though we also had to consider the weather. The forecast said it was going to be sunny on Friday and rainy on Saturday, so we weren’t sure if it might be better to do shopping and fish & chip eating as rainy day activities. . .

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post prognosis party

11 Saturday Oct 2008

Posted by in cancer, food & drink, friends, life stuff, restaurants, sevilla

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And long post hangover ramble . . .

When Nog, Pablo and I finally left the hospital on Thursday, after receiving my unhappy updated prognosis, it was well past lunch time. So we decided to look for somewhere to eat and ended up near Pipocas’s house. There were quite a few options but I opted for Manolo León because it looked quite special and I decided – hang the expense! – because I felt like a party. . .

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bacon cups

08 Wednesday Oct 2008

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I know I seem a bit food obsessed these days but, let’s face it, the days have been kind of long lately. And now that it’s getting cooler it’s starting to be comfort food weather. I really must be careful not to regain the weight I lost after the first operation in May. But maybe just one salad filled bacon cup won’t do too much harm …

Don’t they look amazing?


~ go to not martha for more pics and instructions ~