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lazy day …

21 Sunday Oct 2007

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But I guess that’s what Sundays are for.

Bit of a late start after lying in bed reading until about 10 o’clock (finally finished Lamb – very good!), at which time the idea of coffee and toast got me up and moving. Spent some time playing (fighting?) with my new website and then Nog & I did a bit of housecleaning. By this time it was around one o’clock and we decided it would be a good idea to go for a bike ride.

Unfortunately, the rest of Sevilla had obviously been thinking the same thing, and so after going to four bike stations (and annoyingly there were groups of people grabbing the last bikes each time we walked up) we decided to give up and go for a cold beer on a sunny terrace instead. Then a leisurely stroll through the barrio, stopping in at the bakery to get a baguette for lunch and then – whoops! – slipped into the Irish pub for another cold one before going home. f_ale.gif

And then I don’t know what happened or what we did. Mostly just this and that – had lunch, blogged a bit, played online Scrabble, watched about 4 episodes of West Wing (in between ‘activities’, not all at once) and . . . now it’s bedtime.

Boring post, I know, but I’m feeling very happy and relaxed after this very lazy and pleasant ‘cat day’.

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another tapita update

19 Friday Oct 2007

Posted by in food & drink, photos, sevilla, tapas

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Mmmm . . . just back from lunch.

My friend/student Paco has recommended a couple of ‘new’ tapa bars to me recently. Well, they are not new at all but they are new to me. It’s that thing, you know? You can walk past a place a thousand times and never wander inside … and then someone tells you they make the most amazing fried aubergine with salmorejo.

We tried the first place last week, just for a quick couple of tapas on our way home. Then we went back this past Wednesday (our usual tapa evening out) and sampled quite a few tapas. I commented to Nog that it seemed odd that there wasn’t much meat or fish on the menu and then I saw a couple of women next to us at the bar eating something quite gorgeous looking and asked the waiter what it was. Ha! Turned out we totally missed the back page of the menu … but we’ll be back. Anyhow, here are photos of the two visits, including all of what we ate and some photos of what other people were eating.

Bodega Antonio Romero

And today we finally got to try out La Taberna. A place that Paco insists on calling El Costal, except that’s not what the sign outside it says and it isn’t what the barmen said it was called when I asked them. But never mind. We had a totally fabulous lunch and won’t have to eat again until tomorrow. Check it out…

La Taberna

sara & steve

05 Friday Oct 2007

Posted by in food & drink, friends, fun stuff, life stuff, sevilla, tapas

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Two very dear friends are coming to visit!

They’re coming tonight and will be in Sevilla for about 10 days. They were last here about three years ago, just before Nog came for his ‘holiday’, so he’s never met them in person. Though we all know each other from h2g2.

So I’m quite excited about seeing them after I finish my classes. No doubt there’ll be quite a few new tapa blog photos to show you before they head back to London. 🙂

~ pic is Best Buddies by Keith Haring ~

the morning after

04 Thursday Oct 2007

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Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time … 😉

And actually it was well worth it, even though this morning my eyeballs looked like the proverbial two pee-holes in the snow.

What happened was this. Nog and I went out for our usual tapas after finishing our Wednesday evening classes, which is one of our little weekly routines. And we decided to go back to one of our favourite places called Enrique Becerra because I wanted to give the waiters the URL for my Sevilla Tapas blog so they could see the latest photos that I’d taken there. And also to get some more food shots to add to the page.

And while we were eating we heard a couple speaking in English, wondering if they should stay there or go elsewhere. And so I turned around and told them they should definitely stay because the food was excellent. And so we got to talking and I explained about my tapa blog and they totally got into it – offering me to take photos of their food too before they tucked in. Well, one thing led to another (mostly to do with more wine being ordered) and we all ended up spending a lovely and more than somewhat drunken evening together. 🙂

Finally lurched home some time after midnight and so during my first class this morning I was in serious ‘zombie teacher’ mode. But my student thought that my explanation was quite funny and forgave me for being less ‘with it’ than usual.

Anyhow, you can see the photos I took last night (5-11) on the Enrique Becerra page .