27 Wednesday Nov 2013
Posted in dance, photos, sevilla, spain, tapas tours
Usually during a Flamenco & Tapas Tour I end up taking about a hundred photos and maybe – just maybe! – one turns out. This time I was quite pleased to find three that I liked (click on collage to enlarge). Love my job. 🙂
18 Monday Nov 2013
13 Wednesday Nov 2013
I’ve been thinking about going back to visit Cádiz for ages as it’s one of my favourite cities and it’s been awhile since I was last there. The original plan was to meet my friend Victor @WeLoveMalaga for a day trip because he’s never been to Cádiz, but we’ve been planning this since July and so far haven’t been able to coordinate our schedules. So I decided just to go on my own but then thought I should take the opportunity to visit a well-known sherry bodega in nearby El Puerto de Santa MarĂa, which meant I would probably have to stay overnight in Cádiz. But then I got to thinking that I might need more time and so I am now staying one night each in El Puerto and Cádiz. I’ve even booked hotels!
El Puerto: Casa de HuĂ©speded Santa MarĂa
This first one is a rather quirky B & B, which I’m told is conveniently situated just a few metres from the bodega I want to visit. It’s also a few minute’s walk to where I’ll have to catch the hovercraft on Saturday morning that’ll take me to Cádiz (I could’ve taken the train but this looks like much more fun).
Cádiz: Hotel Argentonio
Peter is going to arrive in Cádiz by train around the same time as me and I’ve booked a room at this more traditional looking place, and I was assured that the rooms with two beds in them were extra big and apparently there’s also a balcony that looks out over the street and lets in lots of light. Peter has been back to Cádiz a couple of times on his day tours so he can show me a few places he’s discovered. But mostly I just want to wander around, visit the market and – of course – a few tapas bars. And Victor still may show up on Saturday too.
This will be the first time that Morcilla has been left on her own overnight with Loki and Luna, so I’m hoping that she’ll be okay. All the cats get on really well together but sometimes Loki doesn’t realise his own strength and plays a bit too rough. I know Luna will be fine, and I just hope that Morcilla is now big enough to hold her own if the big galoot gets too feisty.
I’m so excited! Just two more sleeps!
12 Tuesday Nov 2013
31 Thursday Oct 2013
So there is this tapas & sherry pairing event going on in Sevilla, from the 1st – 17th of November, during which 62 bars will offer a select tapa paired with a sherry or manzanilla wine. And I am totally ON THIS. Of course visiting 62 bars in just over two weeks is only slightly impossible so it’s a good thing at least a dozen of the bars on the list aren’t places I’m interested in. And to ease both the wallet and liver, Peter is helping me out. This means that we go to each bar and share both the tapa and the sherry, so – for example – we can visit four places and end up having just 2 drinks and 2 tapas but 4 different experiences and can judge which pairings work best at more places.
You can follow all the action on azahar’s Sevilla blog and also on my Instagram.
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