Category Archives: life stuff

50th birthday! (update)

01 Friday Dec 2006

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An update from this post. Looks like we’re going to Barcelona! f_wow.gif

For awhile we thought it wasn’t going to be possible as my birthday (January 7th) very inconveniently falls ‘at the end of holidays’ here and so flights and hotel prices are not cheap at this time. In fact, they are outrageously expensive.

But hey! It turns out that the very next weekend the airfare is a quarter of what it would have cost if we’d gone on my actual birthday. Not to mention that the Saturday of my birthday weekend is a public holiday – no thanks. No point in spending a day in Barcelona with everything closed.

So . . . I almost can’t believe it. And we’ve just found a very nice looking hotel on the internet that looks like it’s within walking distance of most of the places we want to go.

Going to confirm everything this afternoon . . . oh, keep fingers crossed that everything is available and that it doesn’t rain that weekend. I am soooooooo excited! f_somersault.gif

sunday walk in heliopolis

26 Sunday Nov 2006

Posted by in life stuff, photos, sevilla

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solar.JPG           Another fabulous Sunday walk. 🙂

This time we went to Heliopolis, which is a neighbourhood that was created for official visitors to the 1929 Iberoamericana Expo. It was meant to be temporary … quite amazing when you see how lovely the houses are. Apparently most of them have had to be pretty much rebuilt but it’s one of the few places in Sevilla that has individual homes with gardens, and a lot of the houses are quite spectacular.

At the start of our walk we ran into our musician friend Juan and I was shocked to see that he had cut off his gorgeous waist-length hair! Then we took the bus out to Heliopolis as it’s about an hour’s walk away. After wandering around there for awhile (Nog had never been to Heliopolis before) we walked home, stopping in Maria Luisa park for a much needed cold beer … and we met a lovely guy from Senegal playing a very strange instrument carved out of a pumpkin.

You can have a look at what we saw over here …

Sunday walk in Heliopolis

favourite photos?

23 Thursday Nov 2006

Posted by in art, life stuff, miscellany, photos

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Got any favourite photos you’d like to share?

I come across so many wonderful photos whilst wandering around the blogosphere that I thought it would be a nice idea to create a photo gallery for some of our favourite ones.

I’ve started the album off with a few photos to get it going – you can find it here … mosaic

People who would like to contribute to the project can email me with their photo(s) and description(s) and I will upload them to the gallery. If you want to link back to either another photo site or blog just send me that information and I’ll add the link under the description. Also, check out the tags feature next to each photo and let me know if you would like a tag link included.

The photos don’t have to be your own, but of course I can’t post them if they are copyright protected. A description of the photo, bit of history, would also be nice and can be copied and pasted under the photo title.

If this takes off I’ll look into getting it more organised – perhaps in alphabetical order of contributor’s names? Anyhow, any and all suggestions are quite welcome. I just thought this would be a fun thing to do and so let me know what you think. 🙂