29 Saturday Jan 2011
Today’s Photohunt theme is “standing”.
In Spain people typically enjoy tapas while standing at the bar.
[as usual, Blogger is fucking up and refuses to acknowldege my open ID,
so I’m not able to leave comments and doubt I’ll get back to it later. Sorry.]
06 Thursday Jan 2011
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…aka Los Reyes Magos or Three Kings Day
This celebration typically marks the end of the festive season in Spain, though I always extend it one day more to include my birthday (natch). Last night there was the cabalgata, a parade featuring Los Reyes Magos who ride around on floats tossing sweets out to the hoards of children that line the route, and at midnight the Christmas lights were switched off. Today there will be family dinners with gifts (giving presents on Christmas Eve/Day is a relatively new practice here), then tomorrow kids go back to school and normal life begins again. Though I’m actually working today and have a biz meeting at 5 o’clock – beats just sitting around waiting for my English students to come back from their holidays.
Planned to have an epiphany today but, you know…
15 Wednesday Dec 2010
Posted in home, life stuff, sevilla, spain
Magic Cheques from El Corte Inglés.
So okay, a couple of weeks ago Nog & I went over the El Corte Inglés to do some Saturday morning shopping at the supermarket, and found people handing out these “cheques mágicos”. I’m used to having weird and useless promo stuff handed to me, but when I went to refuse the woman said “trust me, you want to know about this one”…
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27 Saturday Nov 2010
Posted in food & drink, photohunt, photos, sevilla, spain
26 Friday Nov 2010
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Final deadline for my SimonSeeks job (the first one was in October) was today, but I got an extension until Monday. So it’s going to be busy, busy, busy all weekend. Most of the writing is done, but there are still some photos missing and a bit of polishing and fact-finding needs to be done over the next three days. Have a look and let me know how you think I’m doing (not all the headings are showing yet)…
