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birthday report

08 Thursday Jan 2009

Posted by azahar in birthdays, food & drink, friends, photos, restaurants, sevilla

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bday-brekkie

Birthdays at casa az traditionally start off with breakfast in bed consisting of lovely hot coffee and these fabulous arabic pastries. And so when I finally re-awoke around 9.30 yesterday morning, Nog brought in the birthday brekkie.  It turned out to be a good thing that I hadn’t gone to yoga because I found out today that the first yoga class after the holidays will be tomorrow … imagine how awful it would have been if I had dragged myself out of my warm bed and walked over to the gym in the dark only to find nobody there!  So that was a lucky start to what turned out to be rather a serendipitous birthday …

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getting that christmas feeling…

23 Tuesday Dec 2008

Posted by azahar in christmas, food & drink, friends, sevilla, tapas

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cuarenta_y_tres1

It’s all been feeling rather Christmassy lately, even mundane stuff like getting my hair cut.  The photo above was taken on my way home from the hairdresser’s yesterday, when I stopped in at Bar Campanario to do some bloggy research for a virtual Christmas dinner being planned over at FFE’s.  At one point Sledpress mentioned a Spanish liqueur called Cuarenta y Tres (43), which I had never tried. So I asked my friend María Paz if she would let me have a wee taste, which led to her offering me & Nog free drinks and tapas … and well, we couldn’t say no.

Last weekend Nog & I had gone to pick out my Christmas prezzie (which is still a secret) and on the way home passed a tapa bar that – gasp! – we had never been to. After checking out the menu we decided to stop in at Pando for a snack, and look at what we got for just 12 euros (including two drinks!)…

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new widget

19 Friday Dec 2008

Posted by azahar in food & drink, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas, wine

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tapas-widget I’ve been playing around with my Fotki albums the past couple of days and came across this widget, which I thought might work well on my Sevilla Tapas blog (the old front page pic I was using was this one).  So I went through my files and chose 80 or so of my favourite pics and put them together so that visitors could get a sneak preview of what the various tapas look like. You just click on the pic to get a new tapa.

But you’ll have to go over to Sevilla Tapas to check it out (it won’t work on WordPress.com).  And on azahar-sevilla.com I’ve put a different Fotki widget in the sidebar. Let me know what you think.

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art & burgers

29 Saturday Nov 2008

Posted by azahar in art, cancer, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, photos, restaurants, sevilla

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thinker

Pipocas dragged me out of the house yesterday afternoon for art and burgers. I wasn’t sure if I was up to it as the op was just over a week ago and I’m still in a fair bit of pain and discomfort. But as the weather forecast was calling for RAIN until next Tuesday, I thought I’d better try and get out. And it really was worth the effort. . .

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cold snap!

27 Thursday Nov 2008

Posted by azahar in health & happiness, home, sevilla

≈ 30 Comments

cold-snap

It’s been really cold this week. Almost as cold as it ever gets here during winter. Which might not seem that cold to some of you, but bear in mind that there is very little temperature difference between inside and outside casa az. Also, the living room heater (which is just like this bedroom one) has gone wonky and will now only work if it’s taken off the wall and placed upside down on the dining table. Go figure.

And so I am writing this from bed, wearing a t-shirt and a sweatshirt, a cardie over those and a scarf … the duvet (sweatpants and socks on under that) comes up to mid-chest, and the heater is on. But while most of me is feeling warm enough my hands are freezing, so I think I’m going to have to invest in some wooly gloves and cut the fingertips off.

Can’t imagine how I’m going to do chemo in January as the side effects include not being able to even touch anything cold (because it hurts like hell). Ah well, one day at a time…

Friday looks like it might be a nice day to go out. Pipocas and I have a date to go and see some Rodin sculptures in the Plaza Nueva around midday if I’m feeling up to a walk. She just sent me an email saying “It can’t stay this way, can it?” (referring to the cold). I sure hope not, especially with that possible long weekend in Málaga coming up…

How about you guys – are you keeping warm?

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