19 Wednesday Mar 2025
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This week’s Substack offering is a visit to eight (count em… 8!) food markets in Sevilla. I also hit 200 subscribers this week (!!!) which is quite exciting and I think not bad for an almost three-month-old newsletter. So if you like what you read (and would like to make me happy 🙂) please consider becoming either a free or paid subscriber. And leave a comment!
11 Wednesday Dec 2024
Posted in architecture, art, history, retail therapy, sevilla, shopping, welcome
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The oldest independent shop in Sevilla (founded in 1856) this gorgeous stationers is a wondrous Aladdin’s cave full of any possible thing you can imagine in paper form. I just popped in for a pedestrian order of a refill for my old agenda and was taken back to not-so-long-ago times when there were several such shops in the city, selling all manner of things. From books to toys, houseware and hardware items, fabrics, art prints and posters, jewellery, fans and shawls, hats and gloves, specialty foods and wines… each small shop brimming with charm and personality and often one-of-a-kind items. Sadly all but gone now as chains take over and push the independents out. Sigh…
02 Thursday May 2024
Posted in retail therapy, shoes, shopping
This is the third time I’ve bought these exact same Skechers “go walk” sandals. I think in general they last me two “sandal seasons” (which here is from March-October) so I get a lot of wear outta them. Anyhow, I was looking around for a new comfy pair as my old Skechers are looking not quite good enough to wear on tapas tours anymore and I finally decided, what the heck, I’d just get these again because they are super comfortable (and machine washable!). And as a bonus, when I picked them up on my way home today, I was told they were 20% off this week. Yay. At this point it looks like I’m going to end up wearing the same Skecher sandals and Camper shoes for the rest of my life.
07 Tuesday Nov 2023
They don’t look like much, and this is really not my “style” (I don’t do sporty) but damn they are comfy, and that is beautiful. Realised that I needed something a bit sturdier to help with walking now that the KNEES aren’t cooperating. Being slip-ons they are a bit of a bugger to get on (thanks to absurdly high instep) but once in… happy feet! And I’ll black-out that swish silver S on the sides with shoe polish because, ick. Good ol’ Skechers though. They’ve always been good to me.
UPDATE: returned shoes… too clunky!
16 Wednesday Aug 2023
Posted in casa azahar, home, shopping
Summer sales always get me thinking about the basics and what needs stocking up on or replacing. And part of the reason for this most boringest blog on the internets (takes a bow!) is that I have a daily account of stuff that happens in my life, including mundane stuff like buying new sheets. A quick check informed me that it was only two years ago that I got new ones. Way too soon to fork out for more new sheets, especially as my top sheets and pillow cases are just fine. It’s the bottom fitted sheets that are fucked. Elastic is shot and there are a few tell-tale L-shaped cat tears that at any moment could rip wide open.
Anyhow, this is either my week for new discoveries or just me finding out that these things were always there and I simply didn’t know about them. So just like IKEA delivering small items for a mere 3 euros, I found out that I can purchase bottom sheets separately from Bassols. Continue reading
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