Category Archives: tapas

day ten

24 Sunday May 2009

Posted by in cancer, chemo, fitness, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, home, hope, tapas

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sun_clouds

It’s day ten after the last infusion and the sun is starting to shine again. Well, in terms of how I feel – it’s actually been nice and sunny here for ages. But it’s around this time of the chemo cycle that I can start drinking cool beverages again, take stuff out of the fridge without it hurting my fingers, and stop feeling so bloody weak and bleh. I could tell it was different when I woke up yesterday morning … can’t really explain it, just that things felt less “heavy and bleak” and somehow less “wrong”.  What a relief!

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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

a lovely day…

12 Thursday Mar 2009

Posted by in blogging, films, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, holidays, photos, restaurants, sevilla, tapas, wine

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slumdog
I mentioned over here, after having seen my third or fourth meh film in a row, that I couldn’t actually remember the last time I saw a film that really wowed me. Well, it finally happened a couple of weeks ago when Susan & I had another “girls’ Saturday night out”. Except this time we started with lunch …
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market kitchen lunch

27 Friday Feb 2009

Posted by in food & drink, friends, restaurants, sevilla, tapas

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al-aljibe

The other day I mentioned taking an afternoon walk in order to check out an area of town called the Alameda (previously dodgy, now up & coming trendy) because I wanted to include some restaurants there on Sevilla Tapas.  I chose about half a dozen that I thought looked quite good, got names and addresses, business cards where they had them, and felt like I’d done a good job of researching the neighbourhood. One of the places on my list was called Jan El Jalily, specialising in middle Eastern food, so I told Susan about it (ever since Morocco we are all about the couscous) and we decided to check it out last Tuesday for lunch. But it was not to be…

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just another sunday…

23 Monday Feb 2009

Posted by in food & drink, friends, sevilla, spain, tapas

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sunny-sunday

Well, not really. Especially because it was such a gorgeous sunny Sunday and I was feeling just fine after my week-long post ferry ride from hell ordeal. I woke up early and started working on Sevilla Tapas, which I’ve actually been doing all week. Check it out and let me know what you think of the changes. Kim has been very generously helping me out with some geeky stuff I don’t know how to do, which has really made a difference. And today I stuck in a couple affiliate ads, including a way-cool Amazon widget in the sidebar showing books I’ve chosen that relate to Spain, food and travel.

By about noon I was just starting to go cross-eyed when Nog asked if I would like to go out for lunch with him. What with me being away, and then in bed a lot of this past week, we haven’t actually seen each other much lately, so it sounded like a very good idea. Nog suggested Yebra, because we hadn’t been there since zoomer was in town last October, and it’s also a 45-minute walk away, which meant we would have a nice walk there and back…

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