Category Archives: friends

bear hug

03 Monday Nov 2008

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This photo is for Anneke.  Yes, the bear hugs are wonderful.  🙂

And that was my last one (until next time) taken at 8.45 this morning when the airport bus pulled up.  Luckily Nog was there to hug me after it drove away because I suddenly couldn’t stop crying. I’m really really bad at goodbyes. But we made lots of very happy memories this past week. And tomorrow Craig will be meeting up with Sara & Steve in London for a few beers. They’ve never met before but I’m sure they’ll have plenty of Sevilla stories to swap and, I don’t know, it gives me a nice feeling to think that some of my favourite people will be out enjoying each other’s company tomorrow.

So, it’s back to REALITY. Got to clean up the joint and go out for my daily walk. It just feels a bit sad and empty knowing that I won’t be seeing the zoomster later on today. *sigh*  😦

Here are some ‘last lunch’ memories from Yebra below . . .

(it’s gonna be green tea & broccoli from now on)

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cádiz

02 Sunday Nov 2008

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Well, maybe one day I’ll get some photos of Cádiz with blue skies … but we were actually quite lucky with the weather, as far as rainy days go.  The first rain shower happened just before lunch, which put the kibosh on our original plan to eat at the same beachside restaurant Nog & I had gone to three years ago. But as a result we happened upon Casa Tino near the market and had a delightful selection of tapas there. When the second rain shower hit we took shelter in an Irish pub, which was all decked out for Halloween, and consumed both Irish coffee and Irish whisky before lurching to the station to catch our train.  But other than that the weather was very pleasant and the company was even better.

We had a great day!

Cádiz photos

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

 

having a wonderful time…

29 Wednesday Oct 2008

Posted by in friends, holidays, life stuff, sevilla

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… just hanging out and doing this and that.

Mostly it’s all about being together, eating good food, drinking nice wine, talking, laughing and feeling good.  Pipocas joined us for lunch at La Estrella on Monday and again at casa az yesterday after having a massage next door (La J is a masseuse).  I mentioned elsewhere that I think the chemistry between the four of us is quite amazing and we’re all really looking forward to the day trip to Córdoba that we have planned for Friday.

It’s so much fun being ‘on holiday’ with zoomer.  There he is during lunch yesterday …  later on in the evening we got together again to watch the premiere of the fifth season of House on tv. With more snacks and wine.  It’s like having extra family around, which is a very comfy feeling.  And I can tell that Nog is also really enjoying having zoomer around again. The only possibly scary bit is that I may be forced to go watch a football match on Sunday … eep!