Category Archives: sevilla

awc of sevilla

24 Thursday Jan 2008

Posted by in food & drink, friends, sevilla, spain, tapas

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The American Women’s Club of Seville is a non-profit organization for any English-speaking women.

The object of the Club is to:

  • promote friendliness and common interest among American and other English-speaking women in Seville;
  • to provide recreational and cultural activities for members;
  • to become acquainted with the city in which the members live as guests;
  • to participate in charities and organizations; and, finally
  • to be a support network for expatriate women of all nationalities.

The club was founded in March of 1956 when a group of American women (wives of American servicemen) residing in Seville decided that the time had arrived to establish a club primarily for the purpose of getting together once a month and comparing notes on their findings in Seville. Later, many other women who had no connection with the armed forces, were invited to join the organization. Today´s organization includes women of many nationalities who live in Seville or its surrounding areas. We enjoy a diverse membership of Americans, Canadians, Spaniards, British and other nationalities.

Today I went to my first ever lunch put on by the AWC.
You can read all about it below…

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open windows

23 Wednesday Jan 2008

Posted by in animals & pets, home, photos, sevilla

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It’s been so sunny and warm here the past few days that I’ve been able to open up the balcony doors during the afternoon to let some warm air and sunshine into casa az. This time of year it’s often warmer outside than inside at midday. And after having been cooped up without much fresh air for the past couple of months the cats are totally loving it, immediately going out to sit on the balcony and take in huge gulps of air … oh, the little darlings. In general they’re quite happy being house cats and can spend most of the year hanging out on the balconies to get some fresh air and even do a bit of serious sunbathing. But of course during the winter the balcony doors stay shut in order to keep the place at least somewhat warmish.

Anyhow, I’m loving it too, being able to sit here without wearing three sweaters and a scarf … it’s about 20º today, which for me is almost sandal weather. And so that pic up top is the view today from one of the living room balconies. The bedroom balcony view looks like this.

I feel so lucky to live here. 🙂

biz ideas please…

18 Friday Jan 2008

Posted by in home, life stuff, sevilla, spain, work

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… kind of like a global brainstorming session

You see, I have been teaching English for about 15 years now and it’s time for a change. But I find that whenever I try to think of ‘what else I could do’ my brain seems to be stuck in a rut and no fresh ideas come to me. Ever since the clothing biz fizzled (either from bad marketing or maybe just bad designs?) I haven’t been able to come up with anything else.

So I thought it might be a good idea to have a brainstorming session here to see if you lovelies might be able to help me get out of my rut. To start off, here are short lists of skills, relevant work experiences (don’t think the coffin upholstering job counts) and also a few personal interests.

Some things that are definitely out (for various reasons) are: working for someone else, tourguide, opening a shop. Ideal job would be one I could start from home where I get to be the boss and have minions… 😉

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second birthday!

12 Saturday Jan 2008

Posted by in birthdays, food & drink, home, sevilla, spain, tapas

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It might have appeared to some of you that Nog was conspicuously absent from my birthday post the other day. That’s because he was actually absent or, to be more precise, he was being a grumpy old git. But I wasn’t about to not have a happy birthday just because I was being ignored. And you guys all really helped with that – thanks again for all the good wishes and making me feel special and cared for.f_hug.gif

So anyhow, Mr Grumpy finally came out of his slump this week and said that he wanted to make up for the ‘lost birthday’ and so I’m having a second birthday today. Started off with Nog bringing me arabic pastries in bed with hot coffee. Then he had to go out and give a class so I went to the gym and we both got home around the same time. We had a bit of shopping to do and while we were in the supermarket Nog asked me what we were going to have for lunch. I just looked at him like he’d suddenly sprouted four heads and went off to get some cava. When he caught up with me he said – “Let me rephrase that… where would you like me to take you for lunch?” Yay! 🙂

I suggested we try the dining room at Enrique Becerra (we’ve only ever had tapas at the bar there) but as it was already 2 o’clock and we didn’t have a reservation I wasn’t very hopeful about getting a table. And sure enough, when we turned up the bar was totally packed and we were told the dining room was fully booked. In desperation I said to the maître de … ” oh no! But it’s my birthday!” – and one of the waiters standing nearby stage whispered to him “but it’s her birthday!!!” – and so it was suggested that we be taken up to ‘the office’, which in fact is a small private dining room for two, and totally charming. It really couldn’t have been lovelier. We were very well taken care of by Pablo and Rafa. Pablo even said we could have one of our favourite starters from the tapa menu (the dining room menu is a bit different). And well, the meal was just fabulous!

You can see the pics here … Enrique Becerra (scroll down to photos 18-22)

Not sure if Nog has anything else planned for this second birthday, but if not I’ll happily rewatch the first episode of House (season 4) at 8.30, drink some more cava and maybe enjoy my last packet of Orville’s. Anyhow, I’m glad he’s stopped being an old grumpy boots… and it was very nice being taken out for a birthday lunch. So I guess I can take the ‘looking for a new flatmate’ ad out of the paper now. 😉