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new neighbours!

30 Thursday Aug 2012

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Today I got to meet more Twitter friends in person – Mark (@inkjockey) and his wife Jo (@missbishopsgate). They were in town celebrating their wedding anniversary and we decided to get together for a drink and a tapita this afternoon before they went home to Estepa. Well, that’s one of their homes, the other is London. And as Estepa is just an hour’s drive from here they are pretty much neighbours. Another cool thing I found out today is that Mark has co-authored a murder mystery called Final de Partido en Córdoba… yes, set in Córdoba! You know, that place I just visited. Anyhow, we had a lovely time and hope to get together next time they come down to their Spanish home. I love Twitter. 🙂

what normal thing have you never done?

21 Tuesday Aug 2012

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I’ve been following journalist Lesley Jones (@lesleyjones) on Twitter for awhile now and I especially enjoy her Bedtime Questions. Last night she asked “what normal thing have you never done?” and it prompted some very interesting and unexpected replies, so I thought I’d ask the same thing here.

Me? I’ve never learned to swim. I can float on my back if the water is calm (so I guess I could maybe do a backstroke) but if I flip over it’s more flailing than swimming, with the eventual sinking… and as for treading water, forget about it. I hardly know anyone else who can’t swim.

How about you?

connecting…

05 Thursday Apr 2012

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A couple of days ago on Twitter someone I’ve known there for a couple of years recommended that someone else get in touch with me as they were coming to Sevilla this week. And so they did.

This afternoon Peter and I met with Sarah Jane Evans and her husband Richard for a bit of a tapeo and we had a great time going to a couple of my favourite spots. And just before we finished up Sarah Jane gave me this book she’d written about Seville, which was published in 1992. Very cool.

Made me think about all the great connections – and friends – I’ve made on Twitter over the years. In fact, it turned out that Sarah Jane and I have a lot of the same Twitter pals in common, probably not so surprising as they are all mostly food and wine people. Good ol’ social media!

How do you meet new people?

faraway friends

13 Thursday Oct 2011

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Yesterday was a bank holiday, though being a freelancer I was actually working most of the morning finishing off a restaurant menu translation. And then I met up my travel-writing pal Jeremy Head for some tapitas. We’d first met on Twitter ages ago, and then in person just over a year ago. This week he is back in Sevilla so it was great to get together and catch up and all that.

After saying “hasta luego” it got me thinking how much I would love to have all the wonderful people I’ve met in various ways and in various places on the internet live in Sevilla, or at least have them visit on a regular basis.

As another Twitter pal, and now dear friend, @AnnieBennett put it… “that’s the trouble with twitter, you make too many faraway friends!”

But I wouldn’t trade that for anything.

where to go?

15 Friday Jul 2011

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Since I started using Twitter I’ve been uploading photos to my various accounts using Twitpic. I’ve often thought about using another service because I didn’t like that you couldn’t search for pics or archive them properly, but as all my pics were already in one place and there was no easy way of moving them I decided to stay put.

Then Twitpic changed its terms of use, basically giving them rights over everyone’s uploaded photos. So when I heard about the Twitpic Export tool created by Steven Bullen, this seemed to be the answer. I’ve exported all of my photos from the Sevilla Tapas Twitpic (or at least I think I have) but now I have to decide where to import them. The three main contenders are WordPress, Tumblr and Posterous. I really like what fellow foodie Rosana has done with her Tumblr photo blog (I especially like the archive pages) and would like to have something similar for Sevilla Tapas, for the pics I upload to Twitter. But I wonder if there is a similar photo-friendly WP theme that would do the same thing, as I much prefer working with WordPress.

Any suggestions?