01 Monday Nov 2010
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The last time I posted this (three years ago) it was a cold and wet November morning, but today couldn’t be more different. Bright and shiny and going up to 20º – and up to 27º by the end of the week! So it looks like I can carry on wearing sandals for awhile yet. Mind you, the last time I posted this it was three weeks into November…
Anyhow, just love this song, so thought I’d share it with you all again.
With a nod to Thomas Hood.
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25 Monday Oct 2010
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Yesterday’s fabby lunch at home… Karin (dragonqueen) had asked about where to find a good paella here, and the answer was pretty much nowhere. So then I thought I’d make one here, throw in a tortilla, and call it lunch.
Turned out great and it was the last lunch with all of us together as Jean-Marie (ToyBox) had to leave at 3pm to catch his plane.
And today Karin and I are catching a 7am (aaack!) train to Granada…
Though we’ll be staying here (Karin’s treat) which I know will be lovely as that’s where Nog and I stayed when we went to Granada back in 2005 – pre-digital camera – and so that should help take the edge off having to get up so early.
Stay tuned for Granada pics!
24 Sunday Oct 2010
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Don’t you wish you were here?
above: evening tapas tour / below: restaurant lunch
We’ll be having a last mini meet lunch today – at casa az …
and tomorrow dragonqueen & I leave for Granada!
20 Wednesday Oct 2010
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After YEARS of restoration work the beautiful Plaza de España reopened this past weekend. I waited until Monday to check it out and tried to recreate the first time I ever saw the place, back in September 1993. I’d seen it on my map so I knew it was a semi-circular building and I’d read that it was designed by Anibal Gonzalez and built as the Spanish pavillion for the 1929 Ibero-American Expo, but nothing had prepared me for what I saw when I turned the corner of the North Tower…
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15 Friday Oct 2010
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For those of you who haven’t been over to the Sevilla Tapas site for awhile … a couple of updates.
I’ve rewritten the tapas tour page a bit and at the bottom have included this collage of “happy campers” who have enjoyed tours in the past. I’ve got another tour coming up on Saturday that I’m really looking forward to.
I also updated the Vegetarian Cuisine page, which I now hope will be helpful. A recent visit from a London-based travel writer who is vegetarian reminded me that I’d left this page “under construction” for far too long. In fact, other than restaurant updates, I haven’t been doing much on the Sevilla Tapas page of late so it felt good to spend some time on my baby. Also had a good time yesterday in my English class with Agustín, as we talked about which tapas bars and restaurants to include in my top 30 list for SimonSeeks, which is now what I’m mostly going to be doing for the next three weeks. Next deadline is November 5th…
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