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terraza

19 Friday Nov 2010

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Trying to look on the bright side of getting thrown out of my home after 16 years, I’ve decided that … I WANT ONE OF THESE. A rooftop terrace, not unlike I had in my first ever home in Sevilla when I had a tiny studio apartment across the street. In fact, have made my short check list and am going to try sticking to it. I mean, if I’m going to go through all the stress and hassle of moving then I am going to make it a change for the better. And so these are the three things I want:

  • a lift
  • air conditioning
  • a terrace

I’ve actually looked at a couple of places since recovering from the shock of last Monday evening. Although I don’t have to move until March 1st I’ve decided that if I find something fabby between now and then I’ll just bugger off. In fact, I’d quite like to start the new year in a wonderful new apartment that will make leaving this place feel like a step forward.

Having had a quick look at current rental prices I am more than convinced now that I don’t have such a great deal here. Yes, I will miss my six balconies, my lovely views and all that light. But the plan is to find somewhere just as lovely except, well, better.

And now I am off to a weekend-long blogger’s conference.

What are you doing this weekend?

hasta luego..

27 Wednesday Oct 2010

Posted by in friends, holidays, home, spain, tapas, travel, trips

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Karin with Loki last night on the sofabed, giving him a goodnight kiss. Azar was NOT amused by this overnight guest business and spent most of the time sulking in the bedroom.

So Karin (dragonqueen) is now winging her way home – Jean-Marie (ToyBox) left on Sunday – and it’s time to get back to normal around here. Which means catching up on my SimonSeeks stuff and doing a tapas tour tonight with Spanish chef José Pizarro, who will soon be opening his own restaurant in London.

It was a great mini-meet and a fabulous trip to Granada (thanks again, K!). I’ve uploaded some photos though they are still mostly unedited. Click on the link below to have a look.

Granada 2010 Photo Album

getaway

05 Tuesday Oct 2010

Posted by in sevilla, spain, work

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Just home from a fabulous 24-hour getaway with Nog at the gorgeous Hospes Casas del Rey del Baeza – yet another wonderful thing that has happened to me because of that “useless waste of time” Twitter. Anyhow, am going through the 156 photos I took and trying to write up a proper report of my visit before this evening’s Tapas Tour, but here is just a taste of it. Meanwhile, you can check my tweets from yesterday on my SevillaTapas and SevilleExpert Twitter streams that also link to iPhone pics I took. We had a great time.

When and where was your last getaway?

mr sevilla

20 Monday Sep 2010

Posted by in food & drink, sevilla, spain, tapas, wine, work

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Meet my stand-in … Mr Sevilla.

In the past few days I’ve received several requests for tapas tours with three of them asking about tours while I am in London – figures! I thought I would have to say no but then I thought to ask Nog if he would like to try doing a couple of tours. At first he wasn’t sure but we talked it over and I said I would help him organise everything and explained it wouldn’t be any different than when we’ve taken out visiting friends here. And so he’s going to do it! First we thought he would just have one tour taking a couple from London out on Saturday, but then last night I got a confirmation from six lawyers from Liverpool ( ! ) for Friday which should be fun. I’d actually love to be doing these tours myself, but at least now I don’t have to let anyone down and – also very importantly – we will make a bit of extra cash this month. Plus I think this will be good experience for Nog. He’s really turning into quite the Sevilla Expert himself, helping out with my SimonSeeks research, and of course he knows all the tapas bars (and tapas) as well as I do, having been with me since the inception of Sevilla Tapas. And he even sucks the brains out of giant prawns (see above) which is something I’ve never been able to do.

So wish Nog luck this weekend! I know that he’ll do a good job and I suspect he is also going to have a great time. I mean, what better work is there than meeting interesting people and taking them out for tapas and wine?