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This week’s Friday Foto Finder challenge is “arch”
Prettily painted arches in the Plaza del Cabildo in Sevilla.
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18 Friday Jul 2014
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This week’s Friday Foto Finder challenge is “arch”
Prettily painted arches in the Plaza del Cabildo in Sevilla.
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16 Wednesday Jul 2014
It suddenly occurred to me around 9 pm last night that I am ON HOLIDAY!
This doesn’t mean that I’m not working as much as always, just that there are fewer tapas tours this month and that I have also made plans to travel here and there in Andalucía doing research for my new trip planning biz. So how does this qualify as being ON HOLIDAY you ask? Well, the main difference is not feeling any pressure to have to be anywhere or do anything at any particular moment. So I can just get up in the morning and deal with new things as they come up, go to the gym or takes walks whenever I want, and also comfortably get on with updating website stuff… at my leisure. Just writing this makes me want to stretch like a cat.


H – O – L – I – D – A – Y – S


15 Tuesday Jul 2014
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It was that kind of day. Got up a wee bit later than usual after an extra-long Sevilla Tapas Tour last night (hey, it was a special birthday tour!). And then I faffed around on the laptop for awhile until it was time to go for my monthly chemo port cleaning. Which I always kind of dread – my monthly reminder that I’m not “out of the woods” yet. I usually treat myself by taking a taxi to the hospital and back, but lately I’ve been finding just getting into a taxi stressful as it usually ends up in some sort of argument after the driver attempts to rip me off. So today I took the bus and, although I HATE taking buses, I felt today like this was my own personal protest against thieving taxi drivers and that made it a bit better. Also, Peter came with me because we had decided to do a bit more research in Los Bermejales, a barrio not too far from the hospital.
Well, great timing *sarcasm*. Although not too far, it turned out that Los Bermejales also wasn’t all that close to the hospital. And it was 42º. But we finally made it to our destination – a typical barrio fish and seafood place – and enjoyed a few tapas. Then on the way to catch the bus home we passed another tapas bar I’d been following on Twitter and poked our heads in the door. And that’s when I saw these wonderful words of wisdom. So we decided to stay and have one more cold drink before heading back into town. All in all, a very pleasant day. How was your Tuesday?
14 Monday Jul 2014
azahar’s kitchenDon’t worry, it’s not a new blog! It’s the same azahar’s kitchen that I’ve had on WordPress.com for years, but now that I’m “housecleaning” I’ve decided to put it on my new Spain site (continuity, etc, blah blah). No pesky ads, nice clean layout. What do you think?
I was also going to move my photo blog over to azahar-spain.com since, like the kitchen blog, it isn’t “city specific”, and then only have Sevilla Tapas and Azahar in Sevilla on azahar-sevilla.com. But I had a few issues with the photos not importing properly and I can’t spend time re-doing the whole thing, so for now at least, it will stay where it is. Phew! It will all be worth it in the end…
08 Tuesday Jul 2014
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Yes, this revamp of Sevilla Tapas looks very similar to my new Azahar Tapas site (all about restaurants and tapas bars in Andalucía) that I showed you the other day. My question is… are the pages too similar or is the continuity good for “brand” recognition?
I’m quite pleased with the new photo slider thingy and, with both sites, I’ve opted to include footer widgets rather than a long sidebar widget, which I think makes the Front Page look neater. Positioning of the widget content is slightly different on each page. For example, the Sevilla Tapas Tour and Trip Advisor info is up on top on Sevilla Tapas, and in the footer widget on Azahar Tapas.
Anyhoooo… when you have a minute some feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks!