07 Friday May 2010
Remember when I started shopping for the new azahar sevilla store awhile back? Well, finding merchandise turned out to be more difficult than I’d expected, mostly because people making arts & crafts don’t tend to have much of a markup and so cannot offer a wholesale price. And cold calls (even in person) didn’t seem to go over very well. So, although the store has been ready for a couple of months now (thanks Tal!) the shelves are still empty and I was beginning to despair. And then …
30 Friday Apr 2010
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17 Saturday Apr 2010
Today’s Photohunt theme is “covered”.
When I first came to Sevilla in September 1993 one of the first things that struck me about the place were the white awnings that covered the narrow streets in the centre of town. But it wouldn’t be until the following summer when the temperatures got up to 50ºC that I would appreciate their very practical use. At the time I just thought they looked really neat. These pics were taken many years ago, pre-digital camera.
09 Friday Apr 2010
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All this plus a beer for Nog and a glass of wine for me cost 7€.
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People who know me and who also follow @SevillaTapas on Twitter probably wonder how I can afford to go out for tapas so often … and the truth is I can’t, and also, looks can be deceiving. About half the time I’m invited out by friends, the rest of the time Nog & I go out and share a tapa with a drink each, which usually costs about 5€. Not bad for an evening out or an after-Saturday-morning-errands snack. And this way I also keep the “live photos” thing going on Twitter and Facebook, which I hope drives some traffic over to the Sevilla Tapas blog (and may lead to tour bookings!).
But the best tapas deal by far has to be the recently discovered Jueves Gastronómicos at a tiny bar near my house called Extraverde. Each Thurdsay (jueves) they choose one food item and make three special tapas for 1 euro each. Last night they featured tuna and above you can see tuna tartare served on little toasts, baked tuna with mixed greens and tuna tataky on a bed of marinated roasted peppers. Unbelievable value. I’ve only been to one other JG (featuring avocado) and sadly missed the one with beets(!), but hope to make this a regular Thursday outing. Last night while we were sitting there with the doors of the bar wide open and a gentle fragrance of azahar drifting in from the square I just wanted time to stand still, it all felt so perfect.
Where do you usually go to eat out?
What could you get for 7€ (approx $10)?
03 Saturday Apr 2010
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Today’s Photohunt theme is “sweet”.
It is Semana Santa (Holy Week) in Sevilla and the streets are full of processions depicting the Christ and Virgin during the various stages of The Passion … and walking in front of these pasos are the nazarenos (often mistaken for KKK members by visiting USians). But far from being sinister, nazarenos often hand out sweets to the children and help them collect colourful balls of wax from the variously coloured candles carried by the different cofradios.
Above you can see a selection of sweets made in the shape of nazarenos, as well as nazareno-shaped cardboard containers that have sweets inside. Weird you say? Well, you’ll get no argument from me on that one. My favourites are the multi-coloured “gummy-bear” nazarenos. They just seem so delightfully wrong somehow. 🙂
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