18 Tuesday Dec 2012
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Just came home to my Spain Holiday apartment after a fabulous day out with Justine, lots of great tapas and wine, walking and talking, a visit to the Picasso Museum, bit of shopping… and this is what I saw just before coming in. Nice innit?
17 Saturday Nov 2012
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It’s been awhile since I’ve made any major changes to the Sevilla Tapas blog, but I thought it would be a good idea to have a bit more continuity between the various azahar-sevilla.com sites.
It wasn’t as easy as I thought and I had to get down and dirty with the CSS and PHP. Thanks to a combination of twitter and google I got some answers to my issues and now have all the blogs and main website mostly running the way I want. I’ll still be tweaking things a bit, but at least it’s all working properly. Just not sure if I should have the background green like on the Sevilla blog, or white like on the main page. What do you think?
08 Thursday Nov 2012
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I was absolutely thrilled and honoured when Mr David Whitley – AKA Grumpy Traveller – asked to interview me – AKA Sevilla Tapas – for the new Expert Tips section on his website.
I have followed David on Twitter for ages now, and love his no-nonsense and very honest approach to travel writing. If more people had the same low bullshit threshhold as David the world would be, well, a much less bullshitty and interesting place.
So check out David’s site if you are looking for the real deal when it comes to travel writing. And also check out my interview!
[also posted on azahar’s Sevilla]
05 Monday Nov 2012
Posted in books & writing, computers, tapas, work
So it took me ages to find the post where I first mentioned that I was planning to write an e-book… back in September 2009!!! Good grief. I know I can procrastinate but this is a bit ridiculous. Well oh yeah, there was the getting over chemo thing, plus rebuilding my life and creating a whole new career for myself. And then moving house and blah, blah, blah…
Anyhow, I started an outline for my e-book recently and was surprised to discover that there are several ways I could probably go with this. But first I’m going to get all the material together and see where that takes me.
It also turns out that a lot of it is pretty much already written, so it will mostly be a question of doing re-writes and editing and then playing with OpenOffice and getting it all on PDF and all that. I’m actually quite excited. Will keep you posted!
08 Monday Oct 2012
And this time they brought Sheila and Greg (Sara’s parents)!
Last time I saw Sara & Steve was three years ago, though they’ve both been coming to Sevilla for ages and I’m the one who got them started doing that. You may remember when Sara and Sheila (both cancer survivors) did a London Race For Life and Sara wore this fabulous sign during the race. Just to give you an idea of how fabulous they both are.
Anyhow, the gang got in this evening around 9.30 and I was at their holiday apartment to meet them, which turned out to be in the same building of my first home in Sevilla! Talk about a walk down memory lane (actually it was up three flights of stairs). And then we went out for tapas (it was a treat not to be working while out for tapas – I actually got to just eat, drink and relax). So it was a lovely evening and we’ll be seeing each other during the week as they are here until Saturday. Now I must hit the hay… a busy busy week. But it’s nice thinking of my friends just a few minutes away in my old house.
