12 Tuesday Jul 2011
I’ve been quite busy this past week or so trying to get the hotel page finished for azahar-sevilla.com, hoping that I would soon be able to generate some income from the nifty new Booking.com affiliate widget I now have on the site.
Then I realised that there are actually quite a few very nice holiday apartments in town that I hadn’t thought of including, and so this past weekend Nog & I went out and did some research, resulting in the new holiday apts page.
Let me know what you think!
09 Saturday Jul 2011
Today’s Photohunt theme is “near”.
And so okay, am showing off my new iPhone app that allows me to take 360º pics … this one is from the top of the Metropol Parasol that opened in Sevilla in the spring (click on it to see a bigger & better view), which is very near where I live. And one of the things I love about it being so near is that it has a terrific market and a couple of great tapas bars, just a stone’s throw from my house. In fact, it’s so near that I can see it from my rooftop terrace.
But that means they can also see me!
08 Friday Jul 2011
Posted in home, retail therapy, sevilla, work
I was at my friend Maria’s fab paper & gift shop Maspapeles the other day for a visit, and on the way out saw this opaque plastic swirly card holder thingy hanging on the glass door. And well, I just had to have one! Is this not an fun way to organise your business cards (or photos, or postcards…)? I love how stylish it is and how it tones in with the wall – so much cooler than a corkboard. And so now I have lots of biz info at my finger tips and it’s also attractively displayed.
I just get such a kick out of well-designed useful things, don’t you?
05 Tuesday Jul 2011
30 Thursday Jun 2011
Posted in food & drink, sevilla, wine, work
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I was invited to an ice cream tasting this morning by my friend Eduardo who runs Different Spain, a fabulous private travel and concierge service. You may recall that a couple of months ago Edu and I went to an olive oil tasting together at the Basilippo Hacienda just outside Sevilla, and it turns out that this ice cream tasting, held at Mascarpone, was going to include three flavours made from Basilippo’s exquisite extra virgin olive oil.
Have to admit I’m not much of an ice cream person. Or maybe I’m a purist? I only eat ice cream once or twice a year and my favourite flavour has always been vanilla. But it was fun to taste a few very different flavours, such as:
Later Eduardo and I were given some frozen fruit pops to try. They are not on the menu yet but I quite enjoyed my strawberry one, which was made from 45% fresh fruit. As for the rest, it was all very interesting and some of the flavours were quite nice, but I think I’ll stick with vanilla…
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