Category Archives: sevilla

back to work!

03 Monday Sep 2007

Posted by in home, life stuff, sevilla, work

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It actually feels okay going back to work – especially as I don’t have any classes until tomorrow 😉 . But today is still a ‘work day’ as I got up at 7 o’clock and went to yoga class and the rest of the day will be spent organising the spare room for teaching.

And this evening we’re going out to a job interview. In fact, if all goes well Nog may be offered two jobs in a village just outside Sevilla, which would be fabulous (and also make the trip out there worthwhile). We’re just waiting to hear back from the first job to find out if it’s going to start in October as planned and then go to the interview for the second one – I’ll be tagging along as ‘the translator’. So fingers crossed that it all works out because it would be a great opportunity for Nog.

Otherwise and that, it’s just nice to be getting into a different routine. And I got some wonderful news yesterday – two very dear friends will be visiting in October, so that makes me very happy and gives me something to look forward to. And so … no post-holiday blues for me. 🙂

the sevilla tapas blog

11 Saturday Aug 2007

Posted by in blogging, culture, food & drink, sevilla, tapas

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Yikes – it’s another blog!!!

As many of you know, about a year or so ago I started a page here called sevilla tapas which included short write-ups on some of my favourite restaurants and tapa bars that also linked to photos on my Fotki page.

This morning I was adding to and reorganising the Fotki tapitas album and I got to thinking that it might be more interesting to have everything together. So what I’ve done is start a new blog that is set up so that each restaurant and tapa bar has its own category. You can click on the drop-down widget on the right and find all posts relating to a particular place there. Each place will have at least two posts to start with – one with general information and the other will be for photos.

I’ve only got one category finished so far (for Modesto Restaurante) if you want to check it out and let me know what you think. I’m planning to write a longer ‘review’ for each place – the one there for Modesto at the moment was just taken from the page here to use as a temporary example.

The link below will take you to the welcome page. On the sidebar widget look under Restaurant and Tapa Bar Categories for Modesto and check out the posts. Each post has a link to the other.

~ sevilla tapas ~

banda de la maria

07 Tuesday Aug 2007

Posted by in culture, music, sevilla, weird

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So, these guys are playing underneath my balcony right now,
Tuesday night at 10.30 pm…

Quite a nice surprise to come home to after the usual evening walk. I first came across these guys playing in a square near here last November. A fun (and very loud) mix of stuff – kind of a cross between a New Orleans jazz band and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. Lots of horns and percussion, singing done through a megaphone. Very theatrical, like street cabaret.

Anyhoo, so much for watching Chinatown tonight . . . 🙂

Here is their website: Banda de la Maria

easy riders

06 Monday Aug 2007

Posted by in health & happiness, home, sevilla

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Cool eh? New public rental bikes.

And quite reasonable. It costs 10€ for an annual membership card and when you pick up a bike the first half hour is free, the next hour is 50 cents and after that it’s 1€ per hour. Conceivably you could always ride for free as long as you kept swapping bikes every half hour, but that sounds like more trouble than it’s worth.

I’ve got a very pretty mountain bike that’s been up in storage for ages because there’s really no place to keep it in this apartment (when I lived next door there was a nice roomy entrance that was perfect). Lately I’ve been thinking about getting it back in action because there are all kinds of recently installed bike paths in Sevilla, but Nog also wants to go out cycling so the rental bikes are an excellent solution.

Sent in our applications today so we could be riding by the weekend. 🙂