After suffering through an hour surrounded by pijos at a new bar opening, this was the antidote. Sevilla’s oldest bar. Felt like myself again…
pijo antidote
17 Thursday Sep 2015
Category Archives: tapas
utrera
10 Thursday Sep 2015
we love meetings!
08 Tuesday Sep 2015
Posted in sevilla, tapas, tapas tours, we love tapas
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Okay, let’s meet at 7.30 for a quick We Love Tapas meeting…
… which somehow ended up finishing after several bars sometime after midnight. This might have something to do with our “office” being located at the always amazing La Azotea in Barrio Santa Cruz. And here is our fab Ania pouring orange wine in a classic bar next to my old house in calle Mateos Gago. Look out for more developments with WLT. It was a very productive evening. I seriously have the Best Team Ever.
sherry sunday
07 Monday Sep 2015
Posted in food & drink, friends, sevilla, sherry, spain, tapas, tapas tours
What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than with new friends enjoying amazing sherries paired with tasty tapas. Thanks to Twitter (once again) I got to meet Paddy @vineinspiration and Lorna @styleisleIRL and took them out on a Sherry & Tapas Tour. Not that Paddy needed any “educating” as he is accomplished wine blogger and specialises in sherry. Which is actually how we “met” on Twitter. Anyhow, Paddy & Lorna were on their way to the Vendimia (wine harvest) in Jerez but stopped off for a couple of days in Sevilla first. And it turns out they will be back in October because Paddy will be taking the Sherry Educator course with me! Small world.
This is only a sampling of what we got up to. It was so much fun “talking shop” with people who share my sherry passion. Looking forward to meeting up again in October.
spiders!
01 Tuesday Sep 2015
Posted in andalucia, art, azahartravels, Malaga, malaga getaway, spain, tapas, tapas tours
It’s been a long-time dream of mine (and still is) to visit the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, in part because I’ve always wanted to see the famous Louise Bourgeois spider there “in person”. But I got a chance to see a slightly smaller version in Málaga at the Picasso Museum (something I’d forgotten to do on my last Málaga Getaway). Luckily the I’ve Been To Hell and Back exhibition was still on (until the end of September) and so off I went. To be honest, for me the spider was the best part. A lot of Bourgeois’ work is the stuff of nightmares, and some of it I actually wish I could unsee. But I did get to see the spider and it was magnificent.
