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Gotta say that when you live somewhere that boasts having over 300 clear-sky sunny days a year, it’s particularly ANNOYING when it clouds over during a rare lunar event. Ah well… 
the super blood moon blues
02 Friday Feb 2018
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team triana
31 Wednesday Jan 2018
Posted in tapas bars, tapas tours, triana, we love tapas
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food tours, sevilla, tapas, tapas tours, triana, we love tapas, wine
Spent a great afternoon today with my fabulous We Love Tapas team, showing them a new tapas tour route… the Tasting Triana Tour. This is actually something I’ve been doing myself for a few years, but thought it could be adapted for WLT. And I think it’s going to be a hit. I’m so fortunate to be working with Delia, José and Cinta and today their feedback, suggestions and enthusiasm about the tour were invaluable. Thanks guys! xx
rats!
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…
saturday cervezas
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.
support system
24 Wednesday Jan 2018
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I’ve walked past this bar many times over the years, but only went inside for the first time the other day (it was time for a quick beer o’clock). Taberna Gonzalo Molina is clearly a local favourite, apparently specialising in quails & wings and they also host live flamenco performances a couple times a week. I didn’t try the birds as I reckoned drinking out of the beer glass I was given was enough of an immune system workout for one day. But I was actually charmed by the place, and will stop by again. If it’s still standing, that is.
casa azahar 