… in my living room!
Frugal Shawn is trying to put off turning on the aircon, Melty Shawn is melting. Cats are all floppy.
Will try to hold out until the weekend when it’s supposed to go up to 40º or more.
31º
11 Wednesday Jun 2014
Tag Archives: sevilla
giving peace a chance
02 Monday Jun 2014
El Rincón de la Memoria y La Libertad, Plaza Encarnación Sevilla.
I’m often surprised by the things you don’t see when you don’t pay attention. Like the other day while on one of my usual ways home I noticed this small olive tree for the first time, growing in one of the planters next to the “lone mushroom” in Plaza Encarnación. And then I saw the plaque, quoting Mahatma Gandhi – “There is no way to peace. Peace is the way”. Then I noticed the date on the plaque: March 11 2014, the 10th anniversary of the Madrid train bombings.
Apparently this lovely memorium was sponsored by City Hall and the Alberto Jiménez-Becerril Foundation, the latter founded to help victims of violence. City councillor Jiménez-Becerril and his wife Ascension Garcia Ortiz were murdered by ETA terrorists while walking home on January 30, 1998, just around the corner from where I lived. The week before I’d met the wife and their three children at the English language school where I was working at the time, so that is a very strong memory for me. And so now I will always notice this olive tree on my way home and hope that it grows well and strong.
more twitter magic
29 Thursday May 2014
I’ve known Gabriella (@tenedor on Twitter) for years and we’ve often talked about me going up to visit her in San Sebastian (which may actually happen this summer). But then she was suddenly in Sevilla and so of course we had to meet up and go out on a “tapeo extremo”. It was a fabulous afternoon – also the first long outing I’ve done without crutches in six weeks! – and we really hit it off. I was introducing Gabriella to the various bar owners as the “Shawn of San Sebastian” except she is actually on a whole other level as you can see by her website: Tenedor Tours.
Of course at the end of this fabulous tapeo I got to come home and put my feet up for the rest of the evening while Gabriella had to get back to work with the clients she had brought to town. Really hoping to get a chance to do pinxtos with her soon and, who knows, maybe drop in on the Arzaks. But mostly it would just be fun to hang out with her again. The list of fabulous people I’ve met via Twitter continues to grow…
a wee bit of scotland in sevilla
19 Monday May 2014
Posted in food & drink, friends, Malaga, malaga getaway, sevilla, spain, travel, trips
Look at all the lovely gifts I was given by @lesleyjudge and @aileenlamb who, along with @criadera, met up with me in Málaga this past weekend. More on our adventures later on Azahar in Sevilla. Today I am busy catching up on the work I couldn’t get done over the weekend due to crap internet, as well as doing laundry and drinking lots of green tea (making a change from all the WINE drunk over the past few days). Oh, and I also went to the gym for the first time in almost five weeks, taking my first walk outside the house without crutches. Not a bad Monday! How’s yours?
to market to market…
07 Wednesday May 2014
Posted in food & drink, tapas, tapas tours, work
Another very successful Market & Tapas Tour! I actually wish I got more requests for this particular food tour because it’s really a lot of fun, and it makes a nice change for me to work during the day and have the evening off. In other news… I graduated to using ONE CRUTCH for this tour and it was fine. Still very painful feet but it wasn’t any worse with just the one crutch. Also much easier to manoeuvre. I think I’ll hobble over to the doctor’s this week and see about arranging some physio (okay Beth??).
casa azahar 