rainy day, foggy night
17 Thursday Dec 2009
Category Archives: friends
christmas angel
13 Sunday Dec 2009
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In case you’ve never seen an angel before…this is Isabel.
If you haven’t read the story about Isabel’s wonderful generosity and how she totally saved my holiday in Málaga last weekend, you can find it here. Someone asked if I had offered to pay her for taking me to the train station, but I knew she would have never accepted money and so I got her this lovely box of Belgian chocolates while I was away. And it was hard enough getting her to accept those! She kept waving them away and telling me not to be “tonta”. And when I asked if I could take her photo and told her that she was already “famosa” on my blog, she turned to the shop assistant and said, “I just did the tiniest of favours for this girl and she’s making such a big fuss over it!”
The tinest of favours. Yeah right. She only saved my holiday and renewed my faith in human kindness with her very spontaneous act of generosity. No big deal.
my málaga christmas
11 Friday Dec 2009
Posted in cats, christmas, food & drink, friends, Malaga
Day & night pics of Calle Larios … taken on my iPhone to twitter.
Fotki albums: Málaga Winter, Málaga Christmas, Málaga Tapitas
After a rather shaky & stressful start, my 4-day long weekend couldn’t have been better. Well okay, we could have passed on bussing out to Marbella on Saturday to go to the new M&S there – that was a real waste of time and money. The M&S was tiny with a very uninteresting selection of products. They didn’t even have any decent Christmas cards for me to use next year! But they did have mince pies (bought two packets) and amazing blueberry muffins (Jessica got some for brekky). And I also got some lovely Belgian chocolates – I left one box as a thank-you gift in Manolo’s kitchen, the other I’ll give to “mi salvadora” Isabel. But I’m getting ahead of myself …
11870.com
06 Sunday Dec 2009
Posted in blogging, food & drink, friends, internet, photos, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas
Jesús, Emilio, Antonio, Samuel, Angel & Javier
11870.com is a website that you can use to save and share reviews, pictures and videos of your favorite places and services and have them all close-at-hand. I’ve been a member there since August 2008 and usually add new restaurants and tapas bars (this is my 11870 page). About a week ago I got an email from one of my Seville contacts there, Javier, saying that he was organising a meet, and after a bit of back-and-forthing with group emails we ended up going to Puracepa last Thursday evening. Those are the boys up there – I was the only woman and the only guiri (foreigner). A wonderful time was had by all with excellent food & wine and very interesting conversations. By the end of the evening we were all laughing together like old friends and looking forward to the next meet up, which should be sometime in the next couple of months.
You can see more photos below…
[also posted on azahar’s Sevilla]
noggin time!
03 Thursday Dec 2009
casa azahar 
