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valenska & fernando

17 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by azahar in food & drink, friends, tapas, wine

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valenska and fernando
I have new neighbours! Valenska and Fernando – Paladar y Tomar on Twitter – recently moved to Sevilla from Barcelona, and yesterday we got to meet in person. A lunchtime tapeo wandering through sunny azahar-scented streets that didn’t finish until almost 9 pm… I guess you could say we hit it off.  Lovely people with much wit and charm. I hope to see them often.

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unexpected support

19 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by azahar in change, home, my barrio, neighbours

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petitionYesterday I was working away at my desk when suddenly I caught sight of a woman on the roof of the building across the street – who was waving at me! So I cheerfully waved back and then thought – duh! – maybe she wants something. I opened the balcony door and said hello and found out that she did indeed want something. Turns out she’d seen me coming home late after a tapas tour last week and confronting the asshat who acts as a bouncer at the sleazy bar in my building. I mean, it was about 1 am and there were at least forty drunk teenagers hanging around outside my front door. So I took a photo of them and told the bouncer I’d call the police and show it to them if he didn’t DO SOMETHING immediately. Of course he made a pathetic showing of dispersing the crowd, which only lasted until I went inside.

Anyhow, the woman (Aracel) wanted to talk to me about DOING SOMETHING about this bar and the other illegal bar just up the street, which are both owned by the same person. I told Aracel that I actually had a petition signed by all but one tenant in my house (can never catch him at home) and was going to take it down to city hall this week. So she said she would get the president of their building management committee to write up a petition as well to present at the same time. After that I wrote to the woman who rents holiday apartments in the house next door (Ryan’s parents stayed there last month and complained about the noise) to see if she wanted to do the same. If she does then three houses with 6-8 apartments in each will have registered a formal complaint in the same week about these two bars. And just maybe that will make a difference.

You may recall that the scuzzy bar in my building was the one that caught fire in the middle of the night a couple of years ago.  There is no way he is operating within what his licence permits. The place doesn’t open until after 10 pm most nights and stays open until about 4 am. Then his other bar (pretty much in front of my bedroom balcony) opens at 6 am. And both of these bars attract a combination of underage drinkers and the absolute dregs of society who hang out in the street basically all night and well into the morning. We are hopeful that the closing of one “iconic” student bar a couple of weeks ago just around the corner from us means that city hall is trying to crack down on illegal opening times, as well as illegal drinking (and gawd knows what else) going on in the street. So wish us luck! It really feels good to suddenly have this unexpected support from my neighbours.

pérez

22 Tuesday Mar 2011

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, cats, home

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So remember when I first introduced you to my new neighbour and assumed she was a Very Big Girl? Well, it turns out that “she” is actually a very well-castrated male called Pérez. Ha.

Yesterday evening I heard some very serious caterwauling coming from upstairs and turned to see Azar tearing down the stairs in round-eyed terror with his tail puffed out like a toilet brush…

I went up to see what was going on and there was our neighbour sitting on the windowsill eyeballing Loki (who looked like the proverbial rabbit caught in the headlights). So I decided it was time to at least find out what this kitteh was called and I went next door to introduce myself to my human neighbour, which was when I found out that Pérez is in fact a Very Big Boy. And it turned out that my neighbour is Giorgio, who runs Al Solito Posto just down the street from me, across from my gym. Small world or what?

Well, it seems that Pérez is decidedly put out that there are two new cats on his turf, but I couldn’t get over how Azar screamed like a schoolgirl – would have been funny if it hadn’t made me jump out of my skin. Loki was clearly nonplussed by the whole thing, but I think Azar’s extreme reaction was the most apt response considering what would happen if Pérez ever got in here…

For the rest of the evening, long after Pérez had gone, the boys kept watch in case the intruder returned – Loki near the top of the stairs and Azar on his perch between the staircase and the kitchen. Yep, made me feel very safe and well-protected. 😉

meet the neighbour

27 Sunday Feb 2011

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, cats, home

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I’ve come across this beauty a couple of times coming up the stairs – she seems to have free rein of the building. And yesterday I found her out on my terrace! Since her terrace has “kitteh protection” along the side I can only guess that she made her way over via the roof. Clearly her owner has no qualms about letting her go wherever she likes, and it looks like she’s made it to a healthy age without falling… but I still don’t think I’d like to let Loki out on the terrace just in case.

Isn’t she gorgeous? I don’t know if you can tell from the photos but she is enormous – longer, taller and chunkier than Loki. I’d say her head is half again as large as his.  And she’s super friendly. As are all the neighbours I’ve met here so far (all but two). I’m dying to know her name – think I’ll go and introduce myself to her human to find out.

christmas angel

13 Sunday Dec 2009

Posted by azahar in christmas, fiestas, friends, holidays, home, Malaga, neighbours, sevilla, spain, travel, trips

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In case you’ve never seen an angel before…this is Isabel.

If you haven’t read the story about Isabel’s wonderful generosity and how she totally saved my holiday in Málaga last weekend, you can find it here. Someone asked if I had offered to pay her for taking me to the train station, but I knew she would have never accepted money and so I got her this lovely box of Belgian chocolates while I was away. And it was hard enough getting her to accept those! She kept waving them away and telling me not to be “tonta”. And when I asked if I could take her photo and told her that she was already “famosa” on my blog, she turned to the shop assistant and said, “I just did the tiniest of favours for this girl and she’s making such a big fuss over it!”

The tinest of favours. Yeah right. She only saved my holiday and renewed my faith in human kindness with her very spontaneous act of generosity.  No big deal.

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