06 Wednesday Oct 2010
Posted in holidays, restaurants, sevilla, spain, work
As you all know, I don’t get to travel much, and certainly not nearly enough as I’d like to. But the other day I got to take a “day trip” to a beautiful hotel (with the longest name ever – try tweeting that several times a day!). The hotel Las Casas del Rey de Baeza is part of a chain called Hospes Hotels, but they are a very exclusive chain of luxury hotels, most (all?) of which are restored palaces. I have to say that it was interesting to see – and experience – how the other half lives…
05 Tuesday Oct 2010
Just home from a fabulous 24-hour getaway with Nog at the gorgeous Hospes Casas del Rey del Baeza – yet another wonderful thing that has happened to me because of that “useless waste of time” Twitter. Anyhow, am going through the 156 photos I took and trying to write up a proper report of my visit before this evening’s Tapas Tour, but here is just a taste of it. Meanwhile, you can check my tweets from yesterday on my SevillaTapas and SevilleExpert Twitter streams that also link to iPhone pics I took. We had a great time.
When and where was your last getaway?
20 Monday Sep 2010
Tags
Meet my stand-in … Mr Sevilla.
In the past few days I’ve received several requests for tapas tours with three of them asking about tours while I am in London – figures! I thought I would have to say no but then I thought to ask Nog if he would like to try doing a couple of tours. At first he wasn’t sure but we talked it over and I said I would help him organise everything and explained it wouldn’t be any different than when we’ve taken out visiting friends here. And so he’s going to do it! First we thought he would just have one tour taking a couple from London out on Saturday, but then last night I got a confirmation from six lawyers from Liverpool ( ! ) for Friday which should be fun. I’d actually love to be doing these tours myself, but at least now I don’t have to let anyone down and – also very importantly – we will make a bit of extra cash this month. Plus I think this will be good experience for Nog. He’s really turning into quite the Sevilla Expert himself, helping out with my SimonSeeks research, and of course he knows all the tapas bars (and tapas) as well as I do, having been with me since the inception of Sevilla Tapas. And he even sucks the brains out of giant prawns (see above) which is something I’ve never been able to do.
So wish Nog luck this weekend! I know that he’ll do a good job and I suspect he is also going to have a great time. I mean, what better work is there than meeting interesting people and taking them out for tapas and wine?
15 Wednesday Sep 2010
22 Sunday Aug 2010
Tags
Last night’s sunset.
And today I’m going home. It’s been a fabulous week. I worked, I played, I relaxed and had fun. Had the best evening on Friday when I finally got to meet Michelle Chaplow and her husband Chris – they treated us to a lovely seafood dinner at Andrés Maricuchi. And this afternoon we’re going to meet Jason for a pre-lunch drink. But now I’m ready to go home, snibble the cats (oh, how I’ve missed them!), get back to the gym – and also get back to work. While away I got a booking for a tapas tour for tomorrow night! And there is also some other exciting news I’ll be sharing with you soon.
This really has been the best summer ever.
Below you can see a few more happy Málaga memories.
casa azahar 