Our Spain Resources 2001-2003

from Flamenco Romántico

We have been told that some of these resources are no longer current. Please check first. This is a guide based on our experience and so we cannot be responsible for anything other than recommending to you what we did.

Sevilla

Internet Access (from home):

Wanadoo
Fax: 902-01-00-09 24 hour flat rate for Mac usedrs 20 E + IVA
To cancel, send fax with photocopy of passport 15 days before the end of the month. They bill by the month only.
# to link or reach them? 906-295-100

Internetia (Internet Café)
Avda. Menéndez Pelayo, 46 (just before the MAS)
41003 Sevilla
954-53-40-03, FAX: 954-53-34-81
info@internetiaonline.com
www.internetiaonline.com
Internet Access. Can print, fax, and buy all kinds of phone cards too.

Telefónica

The code to set your answering machine is 0000
To cancel send signed fax with copy of passport to 902-31-57-82

Reliable house cleaner

Trini – 636-90-3471 (referred by Blanca). 7 euros/hr 12/2003

Naturopath/Homeopath Healer

Francisco “Paco” Luque Castillo, Naturopata – Homeopata.
Teléf. 954-57-50-31,
Maria Josefa de Segovia, 56, Esquina Avda. El Greco, 46
(junto a Talleres FRANLUQ), 41007, Sevilla.
Referred by Pilar Dominguez, wife of Paquito Fernandez 12/03

Physical Therapist

Toshi: -trained in Japan. Also a Flamenco dancer
and husband to Diana Vargas (FlamencArte). Great!!!!
630-384-642, or home: 954-00-52-51
Sevilla

Acupunctura

Jesus (friend of Paco Lira’s) GREAT
954-215-005

Dentista

Dentista – Julia Segura Saint-Gerons (2001)
Condes de Bustillo, 2 – 2 Isq.(Triana)
41010 Sevilla
954-34-33-33
recommeded by Toni (Pisco Lira’s wife)
10/14/01 – 5:37 PM

Airport – 954-449-000

The airport opens at 6 AM, but nothing is open inside the airport. Like the coffee shops, they open around 6:30 AM.

Flamenco Organization to assist visitors to Sevilla:

FlamencArte – Diana Vargas and her Mother Delia
Fantastic Resource: Must join to use their many resources.
House: 954-00-52-51 or D movil: 616-37-28-32
website: www.flamencarte.com
e-mail: flamencarte@yahoo.com
or flamencarte@flamencarte.com

Restaurants on Santa Maria la Blanca & Vicinity

It is polite to tip, but not the American amounts. Usually a Euro or two is sufficient unless the service is bad.

El Córdobes (Bar Mesquita), owned by Antonio y Mercedes – open from morning until late (until midnight or later), cheap, good and nice. Tell them “Hola de Freddie y Marianna”. The waiters are our friends too. Eat downstairs or outside. The restaurant upstairs seems to be more expensive and not great service. There is another Cordobes (same family) but not as good or nice, 2 doors down toward Carmela. El Bar Cordobes has our favorite Gazpacho other than Concha Vargas’s. Also good: Ensalada Tropicana (with fruit); pechuga de pollo plancha (grilled chicken breast) (you may ask to substitute salad for potatoes if you want); gambas al ajillo (little shrimp in garlic & lots of olive oil); Coquinas (cockles, which are like tiny clams); revueltos con asparagus (scrambled eggs with asparagus and shrimp). I also like their Espinacas (although it does have a lot of olive oil in it). Also, always have zumo de naranja natural (fresh squeezed orange juice). Be sure to ask if it is “natural”, which means fresh. Sometimes (at many restaurants including this one) they squeeze it earlier and it is not as good just squeezed. You can get juice squeezed to order at the ice cream store across the street a little more towards Menendez Pelayo. El Córdobes sometimes take a day off, but not always. It depends on the season.
954-42-3435, Santa María la Blanca
They have a website too and a guía (guide) listing: http://www.sevillaguia.com/Restaurantes/8.htm

Carmela- owned by May (pronounced My). This is an outdoor café and a meeting place around noon for Paco and friends. We have coffee here. The food (tapas) is not great (but is passable) and is more expensive. Their spinach quiche is good. The ambience is great when our friends are there. May is a friend of ours too. She speaks some English. They almost always have toilet paper in their clean bathrooms.
Photos of Bar Cordobes and Carmela are on our web site at: http://www.flamencoromantico.com/spain2001/friends.d.htm

Casa Diego– cheap and good food. Opens from 2:00 – 4:00 and reopens at 8PM until 10 PM. Closed Saturday evening and Sunday. 1 block from Santa Maria la Blanca. Go down Calle Cano y Cueto to the Plaza de los Curtadores. Casa Diego is on your left when you get to the plaza. Their pechuga de pollo plancha is good (again you can substitute salad for potatoes if you wish) and also their lentil soup is delicious and also their cocido (garbanzo bean stew). Their chicken salad (ensalada de pollo) has shrimp and apples in it as well as chicken. It is delicious. They almost always have toilet paper in their clean bathrooms.

Concha Vargas liked to eat at the bar El Cortadero (owned by the Casa Diego people) when she taught at La Carboneria.. El Cortadero ‘s back faces the same square as Casa Diego. They serve tapas and coffee (as well as alcohol) and are open in the afternoon.

Sundries

You can buy stamps, postcards, cigarettes, lighters, and maybe still phone cards to call the States, etc. at the estanco on Santa Maria La Blanca (across and down from Bar Cordobes). There is a stationary store across Menendez Pelayo (at stoplight). It is right there on your right after you cross the street. Beyond that, on the same side of the street, is another little estanco which I like very much. It seems to be a little cheaper (than the other one) and the lady who runs it is always friendly and nice. And, you can re-charge your móvil there too.

The best place to buy phone cards for the US is at Internetia, on the same side of the street, farther on down, just before the MAS.

OKEY- hand embroidered silk mantoncitas

(Barrios Santa Cruz) Pasaje de Andreu 1 – B Tel: 954-22-46-93

OUR FAVORITE PHARMACY

Is right in the Carmela Alta Mira plaza, next to Alta Mira.

Plaza Pelicano area

Bar: El Balcon Del Pelicano, Calle Santa Lucia No. 16, Sevilla 41003. Telephone: 954-41-07-82. This is near the Trinidad area.
Cleanest bathrooms in Sevilla! They always have toilet paper in their clean bathrooms.

Hotels in Barrio Santa Cruz/Barrio de la Judería:

Hotel Amadeus, la casa de la musica, (reservations advised)
954-50-14-43 FAX: 954-50-00-19
reservas@hotelamadeussevilla.com
www.hotelamadeussevilla.com
Christine’s parents stayed here and loved it.

Las Casas de la Judería (need reservations)
Plaza Santa Maria la Blanca
Callejón de dos Hermanas, 7 (across from Carmela)
41004 Sevilla, Spain
Tel: (34) 95-441-51-50
Fax: (34) 95-442-21-70

Hotel Murillo

Triana

Jewelry

Joyería Santa Ana Triana Tel & Fax: 954-33-00-74
San Jacinto, 40
41010 – Sevilla

Bars in Triana

Bar- Las Golondrinas Tel: 954-331-626, Antillano Campos, 26
Triana, Sevilla

Granada

Hotels

Hotel Britz – 958-22-36-52 tel y fax (2001)
C/ Cuesta de Gomérez, 1
18009 Granada, Spain

Inlay furniture and things

Laguna (at Alhambra) friends of Angel Carmona
http://www.laguna-taracea.com/html/index.htm

To Make Reservations for a tour of the Alhambra

Our friends who are guides there (call in advance):
Cristina Carmona: movil: 607-160-670
Angel Carmona, Sr.: movi: 607-750-872

Córdoba

El Quiñon Restaurant (2003) open Thursday – Sunday
957-32-32-23 + móvil 630-07-50-85
Ctra Palma del Rio, Km 5 14005 Córdoba

Jerez

Taxi 24 hours (2003) 956-34-48-60

Hotels (2001)

Nuevo Hotel
Caballeros, 23
11403 Jerez de la Frontera
Tell – 956-33-16-00
Fax – 956-33-16-04
nuevohotel1927@teleline.es
Hotel in Jerez rec. by James O’Conner.
Looks very nice. Was 3000 pts/person wi baño.

Hotel Joma was recommended and looked nice (it was booked) but I would try Hotel Nuevo First
hoteljoma@arrakis.es
medina, 28
11402 Jerez de la Frontera
956-34-96-89
956-32-28-11
Fax: 956-34-77-43

Las Palomas – a dirty hostel which we did not like.

Hotel Trujillo – wanted 7000 pesetas for a double bed which had uncomfortable springs in it. They were rude and we did not stay there.

Great Street Shoes, Wide Sizes, Boots

Maribel Calzadados (2001)
Corredera, 33
Jerez
956-34-47-05
Flamenco Student of Ana Lopez
great street shoes, wide sizes, boots
10/14/01 – 5:19 PM

Dance Classes

Ana Lopez – is supposed to be very good.

Moron

(2003) Taxi company:
Pepe’s car rental and taxi twenty-four hour service: 95-485-06-65 or 95-485-17-37 or cell phone: 608-33-92-57 or 699-19-75-22.

Gran Hotel Moron– 2003 = 64.20 Euros/couple or 42.80/single
Tel: 955-856-142 or – 955-856-128
Fax: – 955-856-024
www.granhotelmorón.com

Peña Los Gallos de Moron– 954-85-08-22

Ronda

Hotel San Gabriel, (2003)
C/. Marqués de Moctezuma, 19 Ronda, Spain
Tel: 952-190-392 Fax: 952-190-117
e-mail info@hotelsangabriel.com
www.hotelsangabriel.com

SPAIN in General

To confirm your Citibank credit card or take care of other Citibank business from Europe: call 301-797-2328. It will automatically be a collect call.

American Airlines toll free from Europe #: 902-115-570
American Airlines Advantage toll free from Europe #: 902-115-575
American Airlines: 91-453-1440
Iberia: 902-400-500

Flamenco Romántico, Marianna and Federico “Freddie” Mejia
Hidden Valley Road, Soquel, CA 95073 USA
831-477-2825
www.flamencoromantico.com
lamarianna@aol.com
móvil phone in Spain: (34) 686-752-918