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sevilla tapas updates

15 Friday Oct 2010

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For those of you who haven’t been over to the Sevilla Tapas site for awhile … a couple of updates.

I’ve rewritten the tapas tour page a bit and at the bottom have included this collage of “happy campers” who have enjoyed tours in the past. I’ve got another tour coming up on Saturday that I’m really looking forward to.

I also updated the Vegetarian Cuisine page, which I now hope will be helpful. A recent visit from a London-based travel writer who is vegetarian reminded me that I’d left this page “under construction” for far too long. In fact, other than restaurant updates, I haven’t been doing much on the Sevilla Tapas page of late so it felt good to spend some time on my baby. Also had a good time yesterday in my English class with Agustín, as we talked about which tapas bars and restaurants to include in my top 30 list for SimonSeeks, which is now what I’m mostly going to be doing for the next three weeks. Next deadline is November 5th…

 

done! for now…

11 Monday Oct 2010

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Squeaked in with two hours to spare last night, meeting my first SimonSeeks deadline. Got all 25 hotels up and, although there will probably still be a bit of tweaking to do (waiting to hear back from my editor), the first leg is finished and I can breathe a sigh of relief. Also very importantly – I can now send in my first invoice!

Two more deadlines to go: November 5th for restaurants and November 26th for all remaining copy (museums, attractions, nightlife, shopping, etc). Anyhow, check out the hotels page and let me know what you think – feedback, constructive criticism and suggestions are most welcome.

Seville Expert’s Top 25 Hotels

las casas del rey de baeza

06 Wednesday Oct 2010

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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…

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getaway

05 Tuesday Oct 2010

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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?

mr sevilla

20 Monday Sep 2010

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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?