You lot seem to think I’m quite amusing. What am I, funny like a clown? En serio – my most popular new posts, published last year, are mostly silly ones. Well, not silly – highly intelligent, witty and astute, of course.…
Festive Seville: Mapping and Food Fairs
Happy New Year to all my lovely readers! I hope you had a wonderful festive season, spending lots of time with your friends and family. A couple of posts ago, I listed all the events that were going on in…
Interview with Paul Read, the Gazpachomonk. #WABAS12
As a blogger and tweeter, I follow and read many other expats here in Spain. One who has intrigued me for some time is the Gazpachomonk. Apart from the obvious appeal of the name, I was delighted on meeting Paul at the…
What to do in Seville during the December Puente – and over Christmas
This weekend is a bank holiday in Spain – a double one, with two (legitimate) days off – today, Friday, and Monday. First, Dia de la Constitucion (6 December), celebrating Spain’s Constitution; then Dia la Concepcion Inmaculada (8 December) – a…
The underside of Seville: City of Sorrows, inside the gypsies’ world
The popular image of Seville, the one tourists see, and which appears on blogs like this, in guidebooks and apps, in newspaper and magazine articles, is of lively fiestas, fragrant orange blossom, windy cobbled streets, beautiful patios, tapas, and bullfighting…