the sevillaner

16 Tuesday Jul 2024

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sevillaner

The July “summer holiday” cover of The Sevillaner.
Titled Gentrification, it ‘s brilliantly poignant.
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Credit: Tavo Studio
Creative Director: Tavo Ponce
Designer: Juan Linera

It was hard for us to summarise Sevilla, my hometown, with just one illustration, we are used to telling stories through animation and movement. In this case we finally chose to show the worst part of Sevilla, which is the abuse and crushing that tourism is doing to a great city, where everything has been relegated in pursuit of tourism and gentrification.

A city loved and beloved by its inhabitants that has given way to waves of crass tourism, those who prefer a salmon toast with avocado over a serranito. ~ Tavo Ponce

breathing

15 Monday Jul 2024

Posted by in casa azahar, home, life stuff, sevilla staycation

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I usually scroll past these “mindfulness quotes” when they pop up on my social media but for some reason I stopped to read this one and… ufff. Over the weekend I’d been starting to panic that the first week of my staycation was almost over and what had I done with all that TIME? What did I have to show for it? I was already feeling like I was letting myself down. So even though I know it’s corny, this helped remind me to take time to breathe. It’s okay.

testing testing

12 Friday Jul 2024

Posted by in coronavirus, covid, sevilla

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Just picked up a months supply of Combo rapid tests (Covid/FluAB/RSV) for me and Peter. Covid cases are spiking here, friends in the UK have been testing positive (and getting very sick) and so what the heck. In any case I’ve been testing weekly for Covid (every Wednesday morning!) for the past four years. You know,  just in case, as I have known several people who tested positive while asymptomatic. Aside from the weekly test I also test if I’m feeling a bit “iffy” or before I travel. Why do I do this? Because if I tested positive with having a highly-infectious Bio Safety Level 3 air-borne virus I would STAY THE FUCK AT HOME so I didn’t infect anyone else. I mean, you would too, right? Oh wait… you wouldn’t want to mess up your travel plans or miss that special event because, hey, your symptoms are “mild”. Or perhaps you’d prefer not to know if your out of season “cold” and “allergy” symptoms, a sudden gastroenteritis episode, that pesky 100 day cough is actually Covid so that you can pretend you’re not infectious and then keep going about your business as usual while not caring about anyone else.

Before I go further… if you happen to be a Covid denier or minimiser you may as well fuck off right now because I don’t want to hear from you. I’ve heard it all before over these past four and a half years and you make me sick. Literally.

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