Took this pic yesterday while out and about. Now trying to decide whether to go out this evening to see the Christmas lights or just stay in my pyjamas for the rest of the day. Decisions decisions… 💙🍊
christmas blue with oranges
26 Saturday Dec 2020
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christmas craft market 2020
18 Friday Dec 2020
The Christmas Craft Market opened this week in Plaza Nueva and I took a stroll through this afternoon. There was good social distancing with cordoned off areas for people to wait and plenty of hand sanitiser available. I noticed quite a few new artists this time, as well as several familiar ones. Last year I was sent on a mission by my Canadian friend Pam to find a replacement for a hand-painted silk scarf she’d bought here that had gone missing, and so I stopped by Entresedas to say hello. I saw that they are now making silk masks and they were so gorgeous I sent a photo to Pam, who asked me to send her a couple and to get one for myself (her treat) while I was at it. So I’ll probably do that last week. Yay! My first “dress mask”.
If you’re in Sevilla, the market is open until January 5th. It’s a great way to support local artisans and also find some lovely unique Christmas presents.
fase 2 – navidad 2020
17 Thursday Dec 2020
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So tomorrow we head into Fase 2 of the big SAVE CHRISTMAS programme set out by our various governments, which vary from region to region. For Andalucía as of tomorrow here is the deal…
Phase Two
18 December – 10 January
Travel permitted between provinces.
Bars & Restaurants can fully open until 18.00 and 20.00 – 22.30.
Cafeterias can stay open 18.00 – 20.00 without selling alcohol.
Shops can open until 21.00, essential shops until 22.00.
Curfew 23.00 – 6.00
Christmas
23 December – 6 January
Travel allowed between regions only for gatherings with family and “close friends”.
24, 25, 31 December and 1 January Groups of up to 6-10 allowed to meet in one family home, no more than two family groups.
Christmas and New Years Eves curfew at 1.30
a sunny tuesday with oranges
15 Tuesday Dec 2020
It’s that time of year when we (hopefully) get enough rain throughout the winter months to see us through the long hot dry spell that is May to October in Sevilla. Trust me, drought summers here are not fun. But this makes going out even trickier (for me) at the moment as I am still limiting myself to once or twice a week and so NOW those days also have to fall on a non-rainy one. But this day was perfect. Lovely and sunny and still warm enough midday to only need a light jacket and the oranges are reaching their peak. Love Sevilla ❤
christmas magic
09 Wednesday Dec 2020
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Maria December 9th 2020
I mean, what are the odds? These days I am only going out about once a week, so it’s not often I run into people I know. But by some lovely chance today I happened to see Maria @tierradeconejos having lunch outside with friends at Las Teresas as I was on my way home from having tapas. I don’t think we’ve seen each other since before the pandemic. So we talked about how random it was that we would see each other, since Maria is also restricted from travelling into Sevilla and was here for a business meeting. Then we realised that we were at the very same place we had first met many years ago (Maria is one of my first ever official stalkers!), so of course I had to take a pic of her inside under the jamones. Then when I got home I looked up the photo I took of her and her friend Ania on the day we met AND IT WAS THE EXACT SAME DATE as today, December 9th, but seven years earlier in 2013. Must be Christmas Magic. 🙂
Maria and Ania December 9th 2013
