05 Monday Oct 2009
Found this over at Nag on the Lake yesterday and just loved it – a photo essay done by the Telegraph on the twenty oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. And look – there’s Cádiz at number 19! For more modern pics of Cádiz you can have a look here.
I want to go to Byblos!
Where would you like to go?
03 Saturday Oct 2009
Today’s Photohunter theme is “words”.
I love word games. This is my travel scrabble.
10 Thursday Sep 2009
Posted in books & writing, computers, e-books, food & drink, geekiness, internet, publishing, restaurants, sevilla, spain, tapas, travel, work
Ever since my Twitter buddy WeeRascal showed up here last spring with most of Sevilla Tapas printed out in his briefcase I’ve been thinking about publishing a small tapas guidebook. And more recently I’ve been thinking that the easiest and cheapest way to start off would be in e-book form. One smallish obstacle … I have no idea how to even start doing this.
What I have found out is that I can write my e-book as a PDF, which meant looking for some free software, and I have since downloaded OpenOffice.org, though I’m told there are lots of other free applications that will turn almost any document into a PDF. And so I am going to spend this weekend getting familiar with OpenOffice.
Meanwhile, if anyone out there can offer me any help, advice, info – including on how to publish once I get the book written – I would greatly appreciate it. Oh, and in the simplest terms possible please. If you talk in “the nerd-person” I am sure to get lost.
24 Monday Aug 2009
Posted in food & drink, photos, restaurants, spain, summer, tapas, travel, trips
And mostly low carb too!
23 Sunday Aug 2009
This is my last full day of my holidays and I realised I haven’t posted even one holiday photo of me (other than my feet). So this is one that Nog took yesterday evening as we were sitting on the rooftop bar having cocktails and waiting to watch the sunset.
Nog got here yesterday morning and is going back to Seville later on today, and Agustín will be coming to pick me up tomorrow afternoon to take me home. It’s sure been an interesting ten days and I’ve had a really nice break, but I am quite looking forward to snibbling my boys tomorrow and also getting into my new routine. After all this time being sick I feel I’m more than ready to take my life back from cancer and start working on all the projects that have been on hold for so long.
Sure did love my holidays though. It’s the best August I’ve ever had!
Thanks again to everyone who made this summer of healing possible.
casa azahar 