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Spanish heartthrob Javier Bardem is in negotiations to play Julia Roberts´ love interest Felipe in the movie version of Eat, pray, love.

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June 9th, 2009 | Tags: Javier Bardem, Julia Roberts, Spanish actor | Category: Random thoughts, Spanish News | Comments (11)

I´ve been back to the motherland for the past two months and it was lovely. I got to hang out with my friends, have endless cups of tea with my mama, browsed the shops with my sister and I ate all the stuff I miss when I´m out here: boerenkool, my mum´s meatballs, my favorite [...]

May 27th, 2009 | Tags: best thing Alpujarra, goats grazing in La Alpujarra, moving to Andalusia | Category: Buying a house in Spain, Random thoughts, What´s going on in Andalusia | Leave a comment

February 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Academy Awards, Javier Bardem, Oscars 2009, Penelope Cruz, Penelope´s red carpet dress | Category: Random thoughts | Comments (3)

 
 
 
My best friend Pieter is amazing with houses. Even when we were kids and playing house, his make-belief houses would look so much better than mine! I always thought he’d end up doing something with property or design (how many ten year olds regularly phone real estate offices to get the specs on three bedroom [...]

February 8th, 2009 | Tags: Checkmyhome.com, interior design, PVPR | Category: Random thoughts, Shopping | Leave a comment

I’m in a dog sized universe so a film called A man and his dog sounded right up my alley.
One time French heartthrob Jean Paul Belmondo plays an older guy, down on his luck, who has nothing going for him apart from his dog.
Bebel had a stroke in 2001, leaving him paralyzed on his right [...]

January 29th, 2009 | Tags: Belmondo, dog, pup, puppy, stroke, un homme et son chien | Category: Puppies for dummies, Random thoughts | Leave a comment

It was like listening to a soccer match this afternoon, when the nominations for this year’s Oscars were read in Hollywood. A Spanish reporter was live at the scene and got almost tearfully excited when Penelope Cruz got nominated for the second time. Last time, for Almodovar’s Volver, she struck out, but this time around, [...]

January 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Penelope's second Oscar nomination! | Category: Random thoughts | Leave a comment

We had a Plan: we were going to wait for the right time and then go to the pound and get one of those unloved, abandoned dogs and drive off into the sunset. Apparently, due to the crisis, more and more dogs are being abandoned all over Spain, and probably the entire world, so we’d [...]

January 16th, 2009 | Tags: La Alpujarra, puppies, puppy, vets | Category: Random thoughts | Comments (1)

They’re Spain’s most glamorous couple and everybody was hoping they’d get married next year. Me too, because I LOVE weddings. Pen would look so pretty and I wouldn’t mind lots and lots of pics of Javier in a snazzy suit.
Also, it would be big news for the gossip rags such as Hola! and, to be [...]

January 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Hola!, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Thyssen, toreador | Category: Random thoughts, Shopping | Comments (2)

Booklovers around the globe had a bit of an exciting week when all kinds of lovely Proust memorabilia went under the hammer at Sotheby’s in Paris. Among other things, His final words, a golden watch and a poem He wrote about housekeeper and confidante Celeste Albaret.
If I ever thought I had a shot at owning [...]

December 18th, 2008 | Tags: auction, Proust | Category: Proust, Random thoughts, Shopping | Leave a comment