Category Archives: friends

just another sunday…

23 Monday Feb 2009

Posted by in food & drink, friends, sevilla, spain, tapas

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sunny-sunday

Well, not really. Especially because it was such a gorgeous sunny Sunday and I was feeling just fine after my week-long post ferry ride from hell ordeal. I woke up early and started working on Sevilla Tapas, which I’ve actually been doing all week. Check it out and let me know what you think of the changes. Kim has been very generously helping me out with some geeky stuff I don’t know how to do, which has really made a difference. And today I stuck in a couple affiliate ads, including a way-cool Amazon widget in the sidebar showing books I’ve chosen that relate to Spain, food and travel.

By about noon I was just starting to go cross-eyed when Nog asked if I would like to go out for lunch with him. What with me being away, and then in bed a lot of this past week, we haven’t actually seen each other much lately, so it sounded like a very good idea. Nog suggested Yebra, because we hadn’t been there since zoomer was in town last October, and it’s also a 45-minute walk away, which meant we would have a nice walk there and back…

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my sister susan

21 Saturday Feb 2009

Posted by in friends, health & happiness, home, hope, life stuff, love, morocco

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sister-sue

This is my sister Susan (aka Pipocas)

There’s the family you’re born into and the family you choose. It started off as kind of a joke, telling the doctors at the private hospital that Susan was my sister so that they would let her visit that first night I was admitted for observation last May. Then we decided to maintain the ruse after I was transferred to Virgen del Rocío hospital for the emergency colon resection. Sometime between then and I’m not sure when, it turned out that we actually were sisters…

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bummer…

20 Friday Feb 2009

Posted by in friends, health & happiness, home, work, yoga

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toilet-paper

… this is really getting to be a drag.

Ever since the ferry ride from hell last Monday I’ve been unwell. Went to bed on Monday night feeling tired (but not excessively so) and didn’t get up again until Wednesday morning. I had a fever on Tuesday but since then I’ve been “normal”. The main complaint is that I’ve had constant “dire rear” all week and, since yesterday, quite bad lower abdominal cramps. I’m assuming this is a reaction to the violence done to my digestive system on Monday and not a symptom of a possible tumour recurrence, but yes, I will be calling Dr A this morning to ask his advice…

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tangier & asilah

18 Wednesday Feb 2009

Posted by in friends, holidays, language, morocco, restaurants, travel, trips

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tangerina-rooftop

It was the best trip of my life.

Susan and I left on Friday morning to drive down to Tarifa and catch the fast ferry (35 minutes) to Tangier. We got there in plenty of time to have coffee and toast at the aptly named Carpe Diem café, and then made our way to the port across the street.  Arriving at the port in Tangier was the beginning of a four-day adventure that was nothing I could have imagined …

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stranded

16 Monday Feb 2009

Posted by in friends, holidays, morocco, travel, trips

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tangier-stranded

Pip and I are stranded in Tangier!

The ferries were cancelled due to high winds yesterday and so we came back into town to try and get a room at our hotel – but they were fully booked! After looking around a bit we ended up at a rather scary place down by the port (more on that later). It’s still VERY windy out there this morning, but we are off to the ferry station again to see if we can get home today.

Wish us luck!