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poppies!

06 Saturday Apr 2013

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poppies
poppy ear ringsThe first time I ever saw a field of wild poppies was when I lived up north (or northish) in Salamanca. The surrounding fields were filled with a beautiful array of spring flowers in red, yellow, white and purple. Stunning.

So today when I went to an open house at Rompemoldes Creative Craft Space and saw this cheerful display of enamelled-ceramic poppy jewellery I just had to get me a pair of earrings. Aren’t they fab?

This will coincide with the first “happy toes” of the year as tomorrow is going to FINALLY be sunshiny sandal weather and I will have to paint my toenails red to match my new earrings.

Love spontaneous purchases like this. What was your most recent one?

gourmet food tours

02 Tuesday Apr 2013

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

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My latest project! I’ve been asked by a luxury tour group to plan a few new “products” for them, based around gourmet food and wine tours in various cities in Andalucía. Excited? You bet! The main problem I’m having at the moment is narrowing the focus to keep the tours intimate and very special. It’ll definitely be a new experience for me, travelling with clients for a few days and keeping them well-fed and happy. Somehow I think I’ll be very good at that. Anyhow, watch this space!

málaga expert

18 Monday Feb 2013

Posted by in Malaga, spain, travel, work

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Málaga port image by Callate la Boca

Málaga port image by Callate la Boca

At the end of every trip to Málaga it always feels like it was never long enough, and on the train ride home after my most recent visit I got to thinking that I needed some sort of work-related ‘excuse’ to get down to my second home on a regular basis. And it looks like that’s about to happen! This week I start working with veoapartment as their Málaga expert, taking care of finding holiday apartments there and setting up the soon-to-be-launched Málaga page. Once up and running I’ll also be handling bookings and updating and have been told I’ll be making regular trips to Málaga. Yay!

What’s extra cool is that I think this is the perfect ‘extra part time job’ I’ve been looking for. I can do a lot of it from home with occasional meetings at the office, and I really like working with the Veo gang (I’ve been their social media manager for just over a year). So while it’s very early days – I still have to find the apartments! – it is definitely an exciting project. Wish me luck!

northern spain adventure

16 Saturday Feb 2013

Posted by in animals & pets, cancer, cats, holidays, hope, spain, travel, trips

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northern spain

Last year around this time I started dreaming of taking a trip along the northern coast of Spain, but it turned out that I had to stay home that summer and take care of my darling Azar. So I have decided that – providing I get a clean PET scan next month – I am going to start planning this trip in earnest. I’ll fly from Sevilla to Santiago de Compostela and (so far) the plan is to go from there to A Coruña, Olviedo, Santander, Bilbao and San Sebastián. Then I’ll have to backtrack to Bilbao to fly home. I think I’ll be travelling on my own since it’s doubtful that Peter will have any money to travel, but I hope to meet up with friends along the way.

And so, fingers crossed for the next scan! I’ll also post this on the Azahar Sevilla blog (without mentioning dead cats and cancer) to see if I can get any suggestions for places to go, things to do, etc. And of course if you have any suggestions please let me know.

¡feliz navidad!

25 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by in christmas, holidays, home, sevilla, spain

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spanish christmas
A Christmas card especially for Sledpress, who thinks Christmas is a load of bull. 😉

I took this photo at my friend María Paz’s bar Gago 6 yesterday when Peter and I were out and about spreading (and partaking of) a bit of Christmas cheer by visiting a few of our favourite tapas bars. Today we’ll have a quiet afternoon in and then I’ll be taking out a Flamenco & Tapas Tour starting at 6.30 pm. Quite looking forward to that. And now it’s time to break open the cava, open presents, and have a nice Christmas brunch…

Merry Christmas everyone!