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03 Thursday Mar 2022
Posted food & drink, gastronomy, instagram, photography
in03 Thursday Mar 2022
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15 Friday Oct 2021
Posted instagram, sevilla, tapas, tapas bars, tapas tours, twitter
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Kath (@kittyd66) and I have been following each other on Twitter/Instagram for a while now and when she and her husband Tony came back to Sevilla for a visit this week (their 7th!) she got in touch with me about an “off the beaten track” tour since they already knew the city and its bars quite well. And so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to suggest our new We Love Tapas Magical Mystery Tapas Tour with José, with a plan to meet up with them later on during their visit for a cervecita. Well, they loved the tour and did indeed go to places they didn’t know existed, then I met them today for a fabulous lunch at La Brunilda – another first for them. It was a fun afternoon and, as always, lovely to meet another “Twitter pal” in person at last. Pretty sure they’ll be back.
12 Wednesday May 2021
Posted instagram, social media
inWell this was nice to wake up to. Especially after losing my 8000 Twitter followers last month and then having to start over from scratch. Anyhow, if you are following me on Instagram – thank you! And if you’re not… here’s your chance! 🙂
19 Tuesday Jan 2021
Posted instagram, social media
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Reached a couple of milestones on my Instagram accounts this week. Got just over 6500 followers on the Sevilla Tapas account, and finally nudged up to 1200 on Azahar. I don’t know if you guys follow me over there, but they are my most visual social media accounts. Twitter (for both @sevillatapas and @azahar) is my more chatty platform. And Facebook… to be honest, I only use it to post links to there. I’ve just never liked it, but I keep it going for those friends who only use FB. Anyhow! If you are on Instagram and are not yet following me there, well what are you waiting for? 😉
28 Friday Aug 2020
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This photo popped up in my azahar Instagram Memories today, and I actually got a bit weepy. It had been such a great day, checking out the Guggenheim in Bilbao, walking around town, looking for tapas bars that were open (top tip: do not visit Bilbao the week after their Semana Grande in August), later having cocktails on the rooftop of the Gran Hotel Domine at sunset overlooking the Guggenheim and the river. It was part of my first Basque Getaway, visiting Bilbao and San Sebastián.
I guess what got me choked up was the feeling of not knowing if or when this will ever be possible again. I still can’t even get on a train to go to Jerez or Cádiz on a day trip. But today I was whisked back to Bilbao, to the streets, the crazy architecture, the fab pintxo bars, the market, the river, getting lost in a dodgy part of town late at night, the museum of columns. What also got me choked up was that back then, just two years ago, there was no way of knowing what would happen to us in 2020. Hell, same goes for last December, but…
I dunno. Today I saw tweet by the regional government boasting that Andalucía had received the highest volume of travellers and hotel overnight stays in the country during the month of July and had established itself as a preferred destination for Spanish tourists. Meanwhile Andalucía has also registered the highest numbers of the pandemic with 909 cases in 24 hours, including 4 deaths. Coincidence?
I’m just so sad these days. Nobody seems to be in charge. People are doing WHATEVER because there is no direction. And my life… I honestly don’t know. Back in April I was doing okay by not thinking too far ahead, just getting by day by day. But the truth is that I could lose my home and that’s terrifying to me. So seeing these Bilbao pics was so bittersweet. Back when things were good we never thought things could ever change so much, or so quickly.