14 Wednesday Oct 2026
Posted in bluesky, friends, sevilla, sherry, social media
Had a great time today finally getting to meet Bluesky pal Cat @catAstrophe in person, with her friend Trevor. They booked a Sherry & Tapas Tasting and we had such a fun afternoon together. Cat has lived in Tavira (Portugal) for about four years, so we are practically neighbours. Now I’m going to have to take a trip over there to visit her. It’s been a long time!
18 Friday Sep 2026
Posted in social media, wine
The other day my friend Jane posted a link to this rather amazing interactive global wine terroir map with 4,303,693 vineyards and 104,330 wineries across 90 countries. For every single vineyard on the map, users can access highly specific geospatial data, including elevation, solar radiation, and slope, alongside critical viticultural metrics like soil composition, the Huglin index, and average temperatures during the vine growing season.
Winemakers are invited to claim their winery profiles for free, allowing them to update tasting room hours, claim their specific vineyard parcels, and update data on planted grape varieties. A geolocation system also allows users to locate nearby wineries and receive navigation instructions. Check it out! ⬇️
03 Thursday Sep 2026
Posted in humour, restaurants, social media, instagram, photography
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I feel seen!
20 Thursday Aug 2026
Posted in friends, sevilla, social media, spain
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Meet Evan, someone I first “met” when he became a paid subscriber (!!!) to Bitesize Sevilla a few months ago and then we got to chatting a bit. I found out he’d recently moved to Sevilla from Memphis and had set up home in the Macarena barrio. Anyhow, after chatting a bit we decided to meet up, which we have done a couple of times now (with Peter joining us for tapas) and it’s been great. It’s especially lovely to meet another social introvert because we both “get it”. Also Evan is fun, smart, has a dog I have yet to meet, and we both share a love of El Corte Inglés (it has everything!).
He is also a political analyst and essayist, the managing editor of Wonkette and owner/editor of The Moral High Ground. So if your interests run to excellent political writing, both serious and satirical, go check him out. Nice to have a new neighbour, both online and irl, and a willing “extra stomach” for doing Tapas Research.
02 Tuesday Jun 2026
Posted in instagram, sevilla, social media, spain, tapas
So look what happened while I was away in Jerez.
I now have 13K Instagram followers!
Sevilla Tapas
