Wednesday 31 October 2012

Competa & Seville- Holiday BEST bits


1of 2 of the sunny(ish) days in Competa (out of 8) :-(


Easying myself into the holiday spirit.


The view from Competa.


The BEST food we had...NOT JOKING!! A larger version of the padron peppers, fried in olive oil and  with a generous bit of rock salt. These need to be cooked for a bit longer and they're much thicker than the little padron ones.


An actual full day of sunshine in Seville and 30 degrees (before the rain came) , we had a pool and sunbeds and a day of feeling like we were properly on holiday.


All the pretty views in Seville.



This was one of our favourites bars we stumbled on, 5 mins from the main Cathedral...actually into him.


Look how cute AND they were really friendly!


This was defo a good tapas bar...amazing fried fish- Casa Placido-C/Meson del moro 5 & C/Ximenez Enciso 11. Despite still being near the touristy bit was full of locals and laid back.



Look, good fried fish...


And a garnish of cold carrots covered in garlic!!



El Reconcillo- Calle Gerona 42 GO HERE
This tapas bar feels like how Seville should, this is the one that Rick Stein visited but it's well out of the tourist area in the Jewish quarter, the staff were mainly friendly, they chalked up what you'd had on the bar top and it's beautiful inside...and on top of that the tapas were actually nice and didn't taste like recycled tinned veg. 


Obsessed with any tiles really so this place ticked all the boxes.


This even more so...SO much booze.


The meaty bit


The cod in tomato and pepper sauce, this arrived warm and tasted delicious...

More tiles...


Ronda...in the rain :-(


Ronda's world heritage site, the old gorge- so beautiful, even in the rain, just a massive shame they filled it out with what seemed like a tourist strip of shite restaurants, but stunning nevertheless.


LOOK!




Thursday 11 October 2012

FANCY DRESS HANG OVER/ YELLOW MEALS!!

The theme was musicals...


Obsessed with Krispy's efforts! He had the roller skates on ALL night!


Gorgeous pair of ladies..


Too much...love this!!


All wrong... Way too much visible!!


Big musical sing song...


Round 1 of the hang over/still drunk eating...this is what you can get for £23 in the corner shop and it's all a version of yellow/orange. REAL NICE.

1 Can of Sweetcorn
2 x packs of hula Hoop
2 x packs of Quavers
3 x large bottles of Lucazade
1 x Big bag of Wotsits
1 x Large Jar of gerkins 
1 x Chicken pot noodle

Thinking there must have been more...surely!! 


Mmmmmmm look at it.


And a tin of Spaghetti hoops...
And a packet of chicken noodle soup with way too much water in it.


Think I had to consider a vomit after eating this...and we shared it between 5 of us...NO SHAME or idea what would help the hangover, all a bad idea!!


This on the other hand when I finally got out of bed for longer than a half hour stint at 9PM was delicious...Kingsland Curries, although since then have had Bombay Munch which is next level, an amazing take out and not too pricey. TRY TRY TRY (if you're east!!)