Category Archives: restaurants

11870.com

06 Sunday Dec 2009

Posted by in blogging, food & drink, friends, internet, photos, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas

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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]

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girls night out

27 Sunday Sep 2009

Posted by in food & drink, friends, holidays, photos, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas

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girls night out
Alejna & Janet at casa az

Long-time blog friend Alejna of collecting tokens (I think we met over at Raincoaster’s) is in town this week, with her mother and husband and two gorgeous kidlets. On Friday we decided to have a girls night out and I took Alejna & Janet on a wee tapas tour, to three quite different places. First stop was El Rinconcillo, the oldest bar in Sevilla, to sample the best “espinacas con garbanzos” along with a glass of manzanilla sherry. Then on to Modesto so that Alejna could try some “calamares del campo” (aka “land squid” – bit of a private joke). And finally we stopped off at La Sal for some of the best tuna in town…

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the cous

16 Wednesday Sep 2009

Posted by in food & drink, friends, holidays, morocco, restaurants, sevilla, spain

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the cous steve sara the cous nog az

Ever since Susan & I went to Morocco in Febuary we have been all about the cous. Though attempts to find couscous as good as we had in Tangier after we got back proved fruitless. We’ve both even tried making it at home and sharing our experiences – as much as possible from across the pond. And so I’m sure she will be a wee bit envious when she sees the gorgeous Moroccan lunch (including couscous!) that Sara treated us to at As-Sawirah yesterday …

as-sawirah chicken couscous

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e-book

10 Thursday Sep 2009

Posted by in books & writing, computers, e-books, food & drink, geekiness, internet, publishing, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas, travel, work

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ebook

Ever since my Twitter buddy WeeRascal showed up here last spring with most of Sevilla Tapas printed out in his briefcase I’ve been thinking about publishing a small tapas guidebook. And more recently I’ve been thinking that the easiest and cheapest way to start off would be in e-book form. One smallish obstacle … I have no idea how to even start doing this.

What I have found out is that I can write my e-book as a PDF, which meant looking for some free software, and I have  since downloaded OpenOffice.org, though I’m told there are lots of other free applications that will turn almost any document into a PDF.  And so I am going to spend this weekend getting familiar with OpenOffice.

Meanwhile, if anyone out there can offer me any help, advice, info – including on how to publish once I get the book written – I would greatly appreciate it. Oh, and in the simplest terms possible please. If you talk in “the nerd-person” I am sure to get lost.

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