Category Archives: travel

trains

17 Thursday Jun 2010

Posted by in Malaga, travel, trips

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So I’m hopping the train to Málaga this morning…

I always get a bit nervous before a trip, even a short one like this. I guess because I don’t do it very often. But this time I am taking the bare minimum since it will probably be just overnight (slight chance of staying until Saturday). It’s kind of nice travelling so light. Well, except for Shadow, who is rather heavy. But I couldn’t leave home without him.

And I was thinking how travelling by train is my favourite way to go. Planes terrify me, buses make me sick, cars are okay in that you can stop whenever you want … but for straight A-to-B travel I really think trains are the best. And notice I didn’t even mention boats.

What’s your favourite way to travel?

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pain in the ash

19 Monday Apr 2010

Posted by in friends, holidays, travel, trips

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Yes it is awesome and quite breathtakingly beautiful, but…

It has also screwed up the travel plans of thousands of people, including my friends Teuchter and her husband J, who should have arrived in Spain last Saturday. For months they’ve been planning their tour of Andalucía, which would’ve also included a couple of days in Sevilla. We’ve been emailing back and forth with different plans and ideas. It was all very exciting because the last time T&J were here was five years ago and we were so looking forward to getting together again. Bum.

Been following the stories on Twitter, of people who are either stranded elsewhere or stuck at home. It really is unprecidented and in a way quite fascinating. But what a mess.

Anyone you know get stuck or stranded?

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azahar’s forum

06 Wednesday Jan 2010

Posted by in culture, internet, sevilla, spain, tapas, travel

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azahar’s forum

My new Seville forum will “go live” tomorrow, which means that I’ll be announcing it on Sevilla Tapas, Twitter, Facebook…

Before that happens, please feel welcome to visit the site and then offer any last-minute feedback here. It may not seem like it but quite a lot of work went into making this forum look a bit more personal … this is the orginal forum template. There are still a few tweaks I want to make (and it is not working well on IE – no surprise there), but for the moment I just want to be sure that people find it user-friendly, easy to navigate, etc.

Oh, and also let me know if you found it easy to register. 😉

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christmas angel

13 Sunday Dec 2009

Posted by in christmas, fiestas, friends, holidays, home, Malaga, neighbours, sevilla, spain, travel, trips

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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.

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