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córdoba

31 Friday Oct 2008

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The plan had been to go to Córdoba on Friday…

But then the weather forecast started looking very iffy for the weekend. And so yesterday morning around 9am I was having coffee in bed and playing online scrabble. Looking out the bedroom window I saw a gorgeous sunshiny morning out there, so I half-jokingly sent an email to Pipocas saying it was a shame we couldn’t go to Córdoba now as the weather looked perfect and Nog didn’t have any classes until the evening. She called back and asked  – “are you serious?” – then called back five minutes later to say WE WERE GO! Forty minutes later we were all showered, dressed and at our meeting point.

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It was a wonderful day.

You can see all the photos (partially edited) below.

Córdoba photos

 

the plan is … there is no plan

20 Monday Oct 2008

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Road trip (part II) – Saturday 18th October

The next morning we both woke up around 7am, very surprised (and pleased) that we hadn’t woken up during the night … turns out that neither Susan or I sleep a lot.  As it was still early and the sun hadn’t come up yet, we enjoyed more time just chatting in the dark … man, I loved that! But eventually it got light and we were in serious need of coffee, so we got up and headed out in search of brekky…

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what is this plan of which you speak?

20 Monday Oct 2008

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Road trip (part I) – Friday 17th October

The only plan for the entire trip was that at some point we had to get to Gibraltar so I could stock up on underwear and socks at Marks & Spencer. Other than that, Susan and I were free agents.  Though we also had to consider the weather. The forecast said it was going to be sunny on Friday and rainy on Saturday, so we weren’t sure if it might be better to do shopping and fish & chip eating as rainy day activities. . .

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damn my memory!

03 Friday Oct 2008

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This is driving me bonkers!

Yesterday Pipocas took me out for a lovely lunch at a new place (well, new for us) called Viniera San Telmo. It had been recommended by someone from the UK who had written to me back in August, thanking me for my tapas blog because he brings people to Sevilla for tapa tours and apparently my site has been very helpful to him. He also told me about some of his favourite places here, one of which is Viniera San Telmo. And so we tried it out and it really was fabulous. Anyhow, over lunch . . .

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