rainy day, foggy night
17 Thursday Dec 2009
Category Archives: spain
sunny spain?
16 Wednesday Dec 2009
In case any of you were feeling envious…
This is an iPhone screenshot taken early yesterday morning (martes) by a Twitter friend who lives in Sevilla. I actually don’t remember a time when it went below freezing here, though it probably has. But yesterday I woke up with the thermostat in the bedroom at 12ºC (brrrr) and I had to literally dust off my winter coat to go out – I don’t think I wore it at all last winter. But at least yesterday was sunny. The forecast for the rest of this week looks rather dire and I don’t like my chances of getting the laundry to dry.
Well, at least I’m not in Deadmonton!
How’s the weather where you are?
christmas angel
13 Sunday Dec 2009
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In case you’ve never seen an angel before…this is Isabel.
If you haven’t read the story about Isabel’s wonderful generosity and how she totally saved my holiday in Málaga last weekend, you can find it here. Someone asked if I had offered to pay her for taking me to the train station, but I knew she would have never accepted money and so I got her this lovely box of Belgian chocolates while I was away. And it was hard enough getting her to accept those! She kept waving them away and telling me not to be “tonta”. And when I asked if I could take her photo and told her that she was already “famosa” on my blog, she turned to the shop assistant and said, “I just did the tiniest of favours for this girl and she’s making such a big fuss over it!”
The tinest of favours. Yeah right. She only saved my holiday and renewed my faith in human kindness with her very spontaneous act of generosity. No big deal.
nice to be home…
09 Wednesday Dec 2009
Got home from Málaga yesterday evening … I was so excited to see Azar again! As soon as I opened the door he started MEOWING like crazy. Then he ran under the bed and pretended to sulk. But unlike other times he only managed to sulk for about three minutes before coming out and allowing himself to be snibbled. That was when I saw that he had managed to keep himself amused during my absence by dragging clothes out from the storage boxes under the bed and making mincemeat out of a roll of paper towels that had been left on an end table in the livingroom (and not for the first time).
After much snibbling and rolling around on the bed with small black cat I started on the first of several loads of washing that need doing and then … I put up the Christmas tree! Right on schedule.
Today I’m going to work on my Málaga photos and will hopefully have them up on Fotki to show you all a bit later. It was a wonderful long weekend and great to get away, but also so very nice to be home again.
[very cool tea towel was a gift from alejna]
11870.com
06 Sunday Dec 2009
Posted in blogging, food & drink, friends, internet, photos, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas
Jesús, Emilio, Antonio, Samuel, Angel & Javier
11870.com is a website that you can use to save and share reviews, pictures and videos of your favorite places and services and have them all close-at-hand. I’ve been a member there since August 2008 and usually add new restaurants and tapas bars (this is my 11870 page). About a week ago I got an email from one of my Seville contacts there, Javier, saying that he was organising a meet, and after a bit of back-and-forthing with group emails we ended up going to Puracepa last Thursday evening. Those are the boys up there – I was the only woman and the only guiri (foreigner). A wonderful time was had by all with excellent food & wine and very interesting conversations. By the end of the evening we were all laughing together like old friends and looking forward to the next meet up, which should be sometime in the next couple of months.
You can see more photos below…
[also posted on azahar’s Sevilla]
