28 Wednesday Jan 2026
Posted in instagram, sevilla, social media, tapas, tapas bars
Tags
So hey, I finally crept up over the 12K mark on Instagram (seems like I was stuck at 11.9K forever). I do wish there was an alternative as I’d like to “un-meta” myself, but for now it’s still “good for business”. Anyhow, thank you followers! Meanwhile, those tapas don’t pay for themselves, so if you’d like to make a small contribution (always appreciated) here’s the Tip Jar.
15 Wednesday Oct 2025
Posted in friends, sevilla, social media, tapas, tapas bars
So I finally got to spend time with Debbie Love Love! We’ve known each other online for years, and have briefly met up twice at two of our mutual friend Jeanine’s (then) bars, but we never really had a chance to sit down and talk until now. A lunch date was set and it HAD to be at Barra Baja in “our corner” at the bar – by chance both Debbie and I have adopted the end of the bar at BB as “ours”, so this time we shared.
Debbie’s is in the process of ending one chapter of her life and beginning a new one, closing her business Cookie Love Love after 11 years. She is still unsure about what lies ahead but I am sure she’s going to find her new passion before too long. We had a great time talking non-stop for ages and it was great getting to know each other a bit.
Anyhow… lunch. You guessed it…
It went on a while, ending with a penúlitima at another favourite place, Bar Rioja La Esquina, where we were joined by Jeanine. A good day.
25 Tuesday Mar 2025
Posted in instagram, sevilla, social media, tapas, tapas bars
Tags
The other day Hannah got in touch. She’s an American who has been living in Santiago de Compostela and is now spending the winter in Cádiz. She found me on Instagram (her account is called A Hungry Pilgrim) and told me she’d like to meet up. So that’s what we did. First stop was Manolo Cateca for a bit of sherry and then a shortish hobble later we were at Zurbarán. And before we knew it Zurbarán was preparing to close up… time just flew! Anyhow, lovely to meet another food-obsessed pal and hopefully we’ll be seeing each other again, either around Cádiz, here or even in Santiago.
19 Monday Aug 2024
Posted in instagram, internet, social media
Tags
slowly but surely…
Sevilla Tapas on Instagram
19 Tuesday Mar 2024
Posted in instagram, iphone, social media
I don’t know what’s going on with Instagram. At first I thought it was my new iphone camera making things go wonky as it has a macro lens and other schmancy stuff. But then I realised things were only going wonky on Instagram. I used to always upload pics on Insta and do a bit of editing and that was fine, until recently. Suddenly the colours etc were coming out all wrong, and once uploaded not at all how they’d looked after I’d edited them. So then I tried not editing them at all… same problem.
And when I checked them against other platforms (twitter, bluesky, wordpress) as you can see, the pics on the left are normal, But as soon as they go up on Instagram they get all washed out, over exposed, over saturated. Anyone else having this problem?
casa azahar 