azahar clothing summer sale
17 Sunday Jun 2007
Posted in clothing, retail therapy
Category Archives: retail therapy
fnac is open!
12 Saturday May 2007
Posted in books & writing, films, media, music, retail therapy, sevilla
Avenida de la Constitución 8
41001 Sevilla
And it seems to fit in just fine with the ‘new look’ Avenida de la Constitución, so the worries I expressed over here last month turned out to be unfounded.
It also has a very good selection of DVDs and CDs. Lots of cool electronic and computer stuff. And they even sell vinyl records! The English book section is a bit small but I did manage to find a Terry Pratchett book I haven’t yet read. Anyhow, I think it’s a rather nice addition to Sevilla.
How do you like the new trams? This one is just for show as they aren’t operating yet. Apparently they will be removing the overhead cables within the year and we’ll be getting battery operated trams – not quite sure what happened there.
Now if they’d just blow-up all the Starbucks that have sprouted like vile mushrooms all down the Avenida . . .
new television – eep!
12 Saturday May 2007
Posted in home, media, retail therapy, television
Look what we just bought!
Well, we don’t have it yet – it’s going to be delivered on Tuesday.
Courtesy of our big translation job. Not bad for one job – a trip to Lisbon, a 32″ flat screen television and a hopefully debt-free summer (I usually always go into debt during the summer as there is next to no teaching work). But that’ll be the end of this recent spate of retail therapy madness.
Quite looking forward to seeing House on the BIG SCREEN. 
sexy beast
15 Sunday Apr 2007
Posted in computers, home, life stuff, retail therapy
Here she is … in all her undented glory!
Unfortunately my eensy IKEA table doesn’t do her justice. But it makes it easy to keep the old desktop PC at hand and also to use a normal keyboard and mouse when I’m working. And of course, I can use her anywhere in the house at other times. I’m really glad the coin-flip turned out the way it did. Sure it was a bit of a hassle to wipe out all the programmes I’d installed, go back to the store and do the exchange and then reinstall everthing from scratch again.
On the other hand, there is a real pleasure having something so beautifully designed looking as it should.
And it does seem like this ‘spontaneous purchase’ happened at a good time as the ol’ Jag is acting weirder and weirder.
So let’s hope it’s an all’s well that ends well sorta thang . . .
fnac in sevilla
08 Sunday Apr 2007
Posted in books & writing, culture, films, media, music, retail therapy, sevilla
Quite looking forward to this . . . I think.
A Virgin-megastore type place that is opening here in May, about a five-minute walk from where I live. I’m hoping that it will have a good English book section. And I’m curious as to how it will change the face of the already very muched changed Avenida de la Constitución, which is in the process of ‘going pedestrian’ with the exception of a new state-of-the-art tramline. I’m also curious as to whether it will fare any better than the Virgin store that opened and closed here within about five years.
I don’t have any recent photos of the Avenida, but found quite a lovely one over here taken just after Christmas. The change is quite amazing, quite minimalist compared to how it was before, which will take a bit of getting used to. But I think the overall effect is a real improvement.
Looking at the photo, the Fnac store will be on the right not far up from that ‘wedding cake’ building and so far it looks like the building is being redone quite tastefully; hopefully no huge gaudy plastic signs will be installed between now and May 4th. The Avenida has already been despoiled by the presence of two Starbucks, only a couple of blocks from each other – I just noticed the newer and bigger one the other day. Why???
Anyhow, we shall see. I think that once the trams start running the Avenida is going to become a much more popular & pleasant place for people to stroll and shop. But it would be a shame if it ended up losing its very special Sevilliano ‘ambientation’.
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