30 Tuesday Jan 2018
Posted in casa azahar, food & drink, home, homecooking
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What started off as “what can I do with this chicken breast?” ended up as a rather nice garam masala, after a bit of a fridge forage. I think I should spend a week just using stuff up, or perhaps hold a fridge forage dinner party. Could be interesting. Or maybe just weird…
29 Monday Jan 2018
Posted in art, sevilla, television
A plague of golden rats has invaded Sevilla! This unusual street art is part of the promotion for a MoviStar television series set in Sevilla during the second half of the 16th century, when the city was in the grips of the Black Plague.
La Ruta Dorada de la Peste (the Golden Route of the Plague) is an interactive tour that takes you to eleven locations throughout Sevilla that have some relationship with the series and its characters, a mix of fact and fiction. The places to find the rats are the Royal Prison (shown here), Calle Pureza in Triana, Plaza Molviedro, the Cathedral, the Cromberger printing house in Calle Pajaritos, La Casa de la Moneda, the Alameda de Hércules, the Hospital of the Five Wounds, Castillo de San Jorge, Plaza del Cabildo and Casa Monardes in Calle Sierpes. Next to the sculptures you can find a QR code that you can scan with your mobile phone that will take you to an audio guide and a brief explanation about the history of each location.
La Ruta will continue until the end of February and I intend on visiting all the locations. Watch this space…
28 Sunday Jan 2018
Posted in music, sunday song, video
If I ever make a bucket list, a visit to New Orleans will be on it.
27 Saturday Jan 2018
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I swear I will never be “Sevillana” enough to understand this. THIS being the popularity of the Plaza del Salvador, a pretty square that features the second largest church in Sevilla (after the Cathedral). Across from the Salvador church are two hole-in-the-wall bars that basically just sell beer. And they sell A LOT of beer. To massive crowds of people who don’t seem to mind that it takes forever to get your beer, and then you stand outside jostling shoulder to shoulder with everyone else until you want another beer… and then repeat.
This isn’t an age thing, because I did try when I first came here 25 years ago. I would join friends in the square for a beer, struggle to get into one of the bars to place an order, then pick up the beers and struggle again to find my way back to my friends. Before long I decided that this scene was, frankly, no fun at all. I mean seriously… all that hassle just for a beer? No thanks. Still, it remains one of THE places to be in Sevilla. Go figure.
26 Friday Jan 2018
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Cat therapy… helping me hold it together.
And making it impossible for me to get up.
