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sherry heaven

31 Tuesday May 2016

Posted by azahar in andalucia, azahartravels, food & drink, getaways, sherry, spain, trips, wine, work

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jerez, jerez getaway, sherry, vinoble 2016

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A few images from this year’s Vinoble. It was a fabulous and frenetic sherry-packed three days, meeting up with old friends, making new ones, and trying an amazing selection of sherry and sherry-style wines from all over the world. It was my first time visiting Vinoble as a certified Sherry Educator and I felt I was better able to appreciate the wines than when I was invited to the previous edition in 2014. Looking forward to 2018!

vinoble 2016

30 Monday May 2016

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vinoble 2016

A stunningly beautiful location for Vinoble 2016 in Jerez. More later… suffice it to say that it is an amazing but exhausting experience.

I blame anna

10 Tuesday May 2016

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albarino, friends, hotel alfonso xiii, sevilla, tapas, wine

i blame anna

I set off on Monday afternoon to meet up with my friend Anna Mayer for a tapita. She had just arrived in town for a short stay and I hadn’t seen her in ages. So we started off with a vermouth cocktail at Palabra de Bar, near my house. But I should have known by that mischievous look on Anna’s face that the day would take a turn or three.

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After our lovely vermouth cocktails we were walking towards the centre of town and the skies suddenly opened. We ended up taking shelter at Casa Antonio Los Caracoles. As Anna pointed out – it was destiny! Snails are now in season and there is no better place in town to try them.

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But since women can’t live on snails alone, we ordered a few other tapitas. Which we needed to fortify ourselves because…

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…just before we met up, Anna had been invited to a Rías Baixas wine tasting event at the Hotel Alfonso XIII and this ended up including me. Thrilled! So after our hearty tapas lunch we headed over to the event.

i blame anna (4)Here’s Anna and I seriously tasting seriously lovely wines. But I should’ve either sat closer or brought my glasses because I couldn’t read the powerpoint thingy.

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Long story short…. after the wine tasting there was a “salon de vinos” with I don’t remember how many bodegas offering their delicious wines and then one thing led to another. By this time Anna had gone home, and I stayed on with other friends, going out for tapas later on, and even later rolling home around 1 am (!!), about twelve hours after I’d left the house. I blame Anna.  😉

sunday times travel mag

03 Tuesday May 2016

Posted by azahar in blogging, tapas tours, travel, work

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st magazine

I hope I never get so jaded that I don’t get SUPER THRILLED to see my name in print, talking about my Sevilla Tapas Tours. Whether it’s in a fab blog like Becky’s Have Paprika Will Travel (who posted this photo on Instagram – this article is in print version only) or a prestigious publication like the Sunday Times Travel Magazine. It’s always so exciting. More here…

Sevilla Tapas in the Media

on helping…

20 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by azahar in blogging, food & drink, internet, sevilla, spain, work

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help line

Don’t get me wrong… I love helping people. And I love sharing my knowledge about Spain. Which is what led to the labour of love that is Sevilla Tapas and its various offshoots. Which then led to me offering food & wine tours, and later on personalised travel planning. Meanwhile, I keep updating my websites as best I can, as time (and money) allows, so that others can also enjoy and benefit from my experiences.

But what I don’t get are the people who email me saying what a nice website I have and then ask me to recommend specific tapas bars for their short stay in Sevilla, or hotels that would suit their particular requirements, local sights they shouldn’t miss, or possible day trips they should take while they are here, etc…

Guys! All that info is there. It has always been there. It’s there for you to use and – I hope – will be useful. Happy to share and all that. But please don’t ask me to take time out of my busy day to organise your holiday with “my favourite picks” based on your special needs… you can actually find that out yourselves by spending some time on my sites. I did all that research so you wouldn’t have to start from scratch. If you’d like a personalised holiday itinerary, or a fabulous food & wine tour, then I also offer those services. But you do have to pay for that. I’m not complaining, but I always feel a bit mean when I don’t have time to get back to these people.

Have to say though, that it always makes me happy when I get an email from someone recently back from a holiday in Sevilla who tells me what a fabulous resource my sites were for them, how they helped them have a much better time than they would have managed on their own. That makes my day!  🙂

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