Category Archives: spain

garbage

11 Saturday Jul 2009

Posted by in photohunt, photos, rants, sevilla, spain, wtf?

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garbage

Today’s Photohunter theme is “garbage”.

I ask you … have you ever seen anything so ugly? These are the garbage disposal receptacles that were installed a few years ago in the centre of Seville – the city with the largest preserved old centre in Europe. They are part of an underground “suck it up” disposal system that works okay most of the time, but could they not have designed a receptacle that didn’t look like R2D2 on a bad day? They are just so jarring to the eye in comparison to the beautiful architecture here. Ironically, newer receptacles that have been installed in other less pretty parts of town are much more pleasing to look at. Go figure.

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food porn

06 Monday Jul 2009

Posted by in cancer, food & drink, health & happiness, photos, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas

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romero prawn nests

I don’t know how many calories these babies have and I don’t care.

After doing some Saturday morning errands and a bit of grocery shopping the other day, Nog & I stopped in for a tapa at one of our favourite bars, Bodeguita Romero. Everyone there knows about the cancer so, as I hadn’t been there in a few months, a full health update was required by the bar staff and Pedro Romero, the owner. After that was taken care of we tried something new on the menu – these really fabulous prawns wrapped in crispy fried potato threads. Then Pedro gave us a free sample of another new tapa they are trying out (see below). Little brie-filled pastries, kind of like spring rolls. The one on the left has spinach and the other one leeks. Also very nice.

All of this reminded me that I have been neglecting my Sevilla Tapas site, which still needs a lot of work done on it. So that is going to be one of my projects this week. In between yoga and breathing and walking and healing…

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feria

04 Monday May 2009

Posted by in fiestas, sevilla, spain

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la-feria

Yesterday was the last day of Feria (the April Fair). I didn’t get to go during the week because of feeling worn out by the chemo, but Nog and I walked over on Friday afternoon and I took a few photos. This little cutie was talking to her sister and as soon as she saw me pointing the camera at her she struck a pose. Too adorable.

You can see more photos over at azahar’s Sevilla.

my sevilla in national geographic!

16 Thursday Apr 2009

Posted by in photos, sevilla, spain, tapas, travel, twitter, websites

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triana

To my surprise and delight National Geographic Intelligent Traveller blog has published my contribution to their I Heart My City series. You just copy & paste their list of questions into an email and return it to them with your responses. Which I did. But it was still very exciting when I saw Marilyn Res’s tweet announcing it yesterday.

My fifteen minutes of fame. 🙂

I Heart My City: Shawn’s Seville