01 Wednesday Feb 2017
26 Wednesday Oct 2016
Posted in food & drink, friends, gastronomy, sevilla, spain, tapas, tapas bars
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friends, gastronomy, la azotea, seasonal menu, sevilla, seville, spain, tapas
Another menu tasting invitation this week – this time at the always fabulous La Azotea (I was invited to their Santa Cruz location, aka The Office). As I had a day off on Tuesday it seemed like a good opportunity to drop by and try some of the new dishes on their updated seasonal menu. As you can see… it was all delish.
29 Wednesday Jun 2016
Posted in andalucia, sevilla staycation
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Introducing Sevilla Staycations! Along with my usual hotel reviews and recommendations on Azahar Sevilla and Azahar Spain, I rather like this idea of taking brief staycation getaways in my home town and finding fun things to do outside my typical day-to-day, as well as focusing on what the hotel has to offer. Well, as you can see, this particular staycation tended to be tapas oriented (surprise!) but it’s also not usual for me to be sitting by a cool pool in the middle of a sunny afternoon, or be up on a fabulous rooftop bar at 1 am.
This time I was invited by the Doña María Hotel, a renovated palace that has long had one of my favourite rooftop terraces with killer views. On each staycation I will have a guest with me, and this time it was good ol’ Peter @SVQconcierge. Also, not all staycations will be “invited”. I want to mix it up a bit and, of course, the free stays do not guarantee top ratings. All opinions will be my own based on my experiences. Hotel reviews and Sevilla Staycation experiences will be published separately on Azahar Spain and Azahar Sevilla. Olé!
16 Thursday Jun 2016
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When I first heard a few months ago that Turismo España had declared that the third Thursday in June was to become known as World Tapas Day, an international celebration of tapas, I was so excited. I started thinking about activities I could either create or help promote and waited to hear more. And waited. And then waited some more. But it turned out that there was very little going on in Spain, with nothing – I repeat, NOTHING – organised for the self-proclaimed Tapas Capital of the world. And most bar owners I talked to here hadn’t even heard about it. So, big time fail, and a real disappointment. Perhaps the city will get their shit together for next year.
11 Saturday Jun 2016
Posted in blogging, friends, sevilla, tapas, tapas tours
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A few years ago I helped my friend & flatmate Peter set up a website offering various types of walking tours, and we called it Seville Concierge. Because Peter does in fact advise people as well as give tours. Then the other day I was looking at his site and realised it just looked like a boring old blog that he barely updates (and nobody reads 😉 ), when the whole point of the site is to promote his tours. So this morning I started looking around for some fresh ideas that might help him get more work, which meant totally revamping his website.
Unfortunately a whole two hours were wasted on what looked like a cool theme, but it didn’t actually WORK in terms of what it promised. I think there must have been some sort of bug involved, because I couldn’t even get the page menu to show up. AND SO… I ended up finding this theme, which I think is pretty nice.
I’d love some feedback on it, if you don’t mind. In terms of how easy it is to navigate, and all that. By chance I discovered that each page could have its own featured image as a massive header image, so I think that makes it more interesting (present images subject to change – they were the best I could come up with so quickly). Peter is still working on some missing text, so really just want to know what you think of the design. Also, how does it work for you on a phone or tablet?
Thanks! xx
So it’s been kind of rainy, which nobody ever really complains about much this time of year… because we do need the rain. But it’s also lovely to see skies like this. And enjoy midday temps of about 18º, warm enough to enjoy a nice cold beer outside…
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