Category Archives: spain

lunch and stuff

29 Thursday Jan 2009

Posted by in cancer, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, hospitals, life stuff, photos, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas

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gorgonzola-walnut-salad

Good friends, good food, good wine …

Pipocas, Flor and I had an absolutely fabulous time at Tre Fratelli yesterday. In fact, it was a pretty fine day all round. Starting off with yoga class, then an hour or so later Flor came over for further computer instruction. Pip met us here and we walked over to the restaurant together.  And for the next three hours there wasn’t even the eensiest hint of dead air.

Today will be quite something else. I need to fast from about 10am and then start drinking that gawd awful strawberry-flavoured barfium snot around 4 o’clock. Then I’ll walk up to Pip’s office at 6 and we’ll head off to the hospital for my CT scan.

Ah well, at least I have some nice memories …

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flor

27 Tuesday Jan 2009

Posted by in blogging, friends, portugal, sevilla, spain, yoga

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the-terrace

This is where Flor lives … beautiful, isn’t it?

Who’d have thought that going back to yoga class would not only be good for my health & well-being, but also for my social life? Last week I was walking into the gym at the same time as one of the new yoga members (well, new since I left last May) , who said hello to me and asked my name. I was expecting the usual confused response that Spanish people have when they first hear my name, but instead this woman said, “is that with a W?”. Ha! It turned out that she wasn’t Spanish at all, but a lovely and vibrant planetary citizen called Flor …

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first step – google maps

20 Tuesday Jan 2009

Posted by in blogging, food & drink, geekiness, photos, sevilla, spain, tapas, work

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Sevilla Tapas Map

Yesterday morning I went to yoga class and then came home to ride The Bike for an hour (go me!). I was also helping Nog with a temp job doing exam prep stuff for an English school and trying to figure out how to update my WordPress, so I didn’t get round to looking at the first “baby step task” on my list until after lunch.  This was to put google maps on the tapas blog so that people could see the locations with just one click.  Before I knew it, it was 8 o’clock and my one class of the day was at the door – and I was still in my sit-around-the-house clothes (eep!). But as it was an old student/friend coming back after a few years it didn’t matter … much.

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new widget

19 Friday Dec 2008

Posted by in food & drink, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas, wine

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tapas-widget I’ve been playing around with my Fotki albums the past couple of days and came across this widget, which I thought might work well on my Sevilla Tapas blog (the old front page pic I was using was this one).  So I went through my files and chose 80 or so of my favourite pics and put them together so that visitors could get a sneak preview of what the various tapas look like. You just click on the pic to get a new tapa.

But you’ll have to go over to Sevilla Tapas to check it out (it won’t work on WordPress.com).  And on azahar-sevilla.com I’ve put a different Fotki widget in the sidebar. Let me know what you think.

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lunch in sanlúcar

07 Sunday Dec 2008

Posted by in food & drink, friends, health & happiness, restaurants, spain, trips

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feriasanlucar

Had lunch in Sanlúcar de Barrameda yesterday.

It was the first time I’d been out of the house in a week (not including the hospital visit last Wednesday) so I was quite looking forward to getting out and going somewhere nice for lunch with Pipocas.  I was also feeling cautious of overdoing it like I did on my first day out after the liver op. And so of course I ended up going on a six-hour trip in order to eat the famous langostinos of Sanlúcar…

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