11 Tuesday Feb 2014
Posted in sevilla, spain, tapas, tapas tours, work
Went to the press conference announcing the beginning of Orange Days in Sevilla, which I just had time to attend before racing off to a lunchtime Sevilla Tapas Tour. This year I’ve been asked to be one of the judges for this event. Love my job… 🙂
28 Saturday Dec 2013
Posted in christmas, sevilla, spain, tapas tours
Everybody I’ve met this past week on my tapas tours has mentioned The Oranges. They are just so plentiful and, well, orange! I remember my first Christmas here in Sevilla and being struck at how wonderful it was that all the oranges were like natural festive ornaments on the trees that were enhanced with pretty white fairy lights (those were the days – these days they use blue lights that aren’t nearly as lovely). Anyhow, loved this moment coming home after my lunchtime tapas tour on Christmas day, after the rain had stopped.
19 Thursday Dec 2013
Posted in welcome
I love connections like this.
My friend Saray had helped me organise some orange-themed product info for my friend José Pizarro’s visiting friend Sarah last month. Since then the general director of BurNarj, whose family makes this lovely orange sparkling wine, has been in touch with me, asking if I’d like to have a private tasting. And as special as that sounded, I thought it would actually be more fun with other people to share the experience with. So I invited a couple of friends and yesterday we spent a very pleasant couple of hours trying this unique wine.
Most orange wines are simply grape wines that are somehow flavoured/infused with orange, but this is the very first sparkling wine in the world that is actually made from 100% orange juice from orchards growing along the banks of the Guadalquivir River. It doesn’t get much more Andaluz than that!
Have a look at my blog post on Azahar’s Sevilla for more info…
28 Thursday Nov 2013
I know we need rain, but I am loving these bright blue November skies and the oranges in the trees that are getting more and more orange (orangier?) by the day. There have been no November blahs this year.
12 Monday Mar 2012
casa azahar 