Author: Georgina

Georgina Recommends – Hanuri Korean Restaurant Calahonda

We visited Hanuri restaurant in Calahonda recently and it was an absolute revelation! I love Asian food, but had never tried Korean before and as soon as I started enjoying the taste and the experience I wondered why this great food hasn’t become more widely known. I could taste flavours I recognised from Chinese food, and a concept and approach I recognised from Japanese cuisine, but this really brought together the best of both.

There was the fresh, healthy, clean feeling of Japanese food with the reverence they show for the finest ingredients, enhanced with flavourings and marinades, rather than swamped with sauce. This was enriched by a strong flavour, spices and herbs which you know from Chinese cooking, which made the food more interesting than Japanese food can be.

We had a set menu including a range of starters, a Korean Barbeque and a traditional rice dish, followed by a delicious pudding. As well as the most delicious and unusual tastes, there was the brilliant theatre and fun of cooking your own food on a coal bbq in your own table, the only one in Spain the owner told us. Its amazing design hardly emits any smoke, doesn’t make the place boiling, and it’s so much fun!

But before I jump ahead, let’s talk about the starters, which really got my taste buds tingling.

New Year Marketing Masterclass January 22nd 2015

Want to know how to market yourselves in 2015 but not sure where to start? Looking for ideas and inspiration on how to get more customers in the New Year? Start your year off the right way with an inspirational, motivational and practical one hour marketing...

Costa del Sol People – Regina Bodych

In a new feature for our blog, we are going to introduce some interesting members of the community on the Costa del Sol to show the variety of the people, their work and lives in this great place. We hope this will be interesting and enlightening, please let me know if you’d like to be featured, or there’s someone you can recommend.

Our first featured person is the artist Regina Bodych, who I met a few months ago and was really interested to see her work and meet her at an important stage in her career – preparing for her first solo exhibition and establishing herself into the Marbella art scene. Below is an overview of Regina and what she’s up to.

Regina Bodych is a young artist with a varied international upbringing. Born in Poland in 1990, she moved around Europe as a child and was influenced by her Polish, German and Russian heritage. She moved to Marbella in 2010, as she was attracted by the weather, the lifestyle and the mix of people from all over the world.

As long as she can remember she has been drawing and painting, coming from an artistic family and always having an interest in art. Regina has always wanted to create her own path and draw on her own experiences and emotions in the creative process. She is totally self taught, preferring not to be limited by formal training and the established techniques and styles, but rather make her art a spontaneous, fluid and free process.

She comments that the art she creates comes from her soul, so that each piece is an important part of her, as well as representing a moment in her life. Perhaps this is why each piece is imbued with so much power and mystery.

Although young, her career as a painter started early, selling her first pieces to fund herself through college at 18 years old, and officially becoming a professional artist at 20. This coincided with her move to Marbella, a place which has inspired her and focused her art, developed her unique style and taken her pieces in a different direction.

Give the gift of a toy to a child in need this Christmas

Drop off your toys for the Cruz Roja at Specsavers Opticas The Cruz Roja is launching their annual Christmas campaign to collect as many toys as possible for families in need, and Specsavers Opticas are getting behind it by being drop-off points for donations. The aims of...

Free diabetes screenings at Specsavers Opticas Torrevieja

To support World Diabetes Day and raise awareness of the issues related to diabetes and blindness, Specsavers in Torrevieja will be holding a free diabetes screening event in store on 28th November from 10am to 1:30pm, in association with the Asociación de Diabéticos de Torrevieja....

Manilva Networking Event – January 2015

After three fantastic networking events in Manilva, we've decided to skip our December event so as not to clash with the many Christmas events which are already planned and have our next one at the Manilva Wine Museum on 21st January. However, if you need...

Marketing Focus – The secrets to successful email marketing

Our next marketing training session will be taking place on Tuesday 2nd December at Andalucia Lab and will be a masterclass on how to make email marketing work for you as well as a practical session to design your own email marketing template so you...

Join us for networking in Manilva 19/11

This Wednesday, is our November networking event in Manilva from 18.30-20.00 at the Wine Museum. This is becoming a very popular event in the local community and attendees have already got business from it, as well as making personal and professional contacts in their local...

Trial shows that style sells houses

Before and after Nordica’s styling trial

We are all looking at the Costa del Sol property market with interest and are pleased to see that there are definite signs of recovery, particularly with buyers coming from Scandinavia with money to spend. I recently spoke to the team from Nordica, a Real Estate Agency specialising in sales and rentals in the Nueva Andalucia area, with over 20 years’ experience about their experiences to see if we could learn anything about the market and the way it’s responding.

They noticed that even with the improving market there were properties in good locations, with attractive features but which were not selling, so started to look at the influence of design and property dressing and how they could increase the chance of a sale with a few simple design changes. They undertook a trial with one of these problem properties, offering the owner a free furniture package and makeover to help it sell, rather than dropping the price. This property had been on the market for one year, but following the styling, there were three buyers competing for the property and it sold in just one week at full asking price.

This compelling evidence made Nordica decide to expand their service and launch Nordica Interior Design Group and open a dedicated office in Aloha Gardens. They believe that with this service they can style properties to sell, help sellers get the price the property deserves and create a home which buyers will love to live in.

Fashion show MC Cafe 14/11

This Friday there's a fantastic fashion show and delicious lunch being held at MC Cafe from 13.00, with the fashion show starting at 14.00. These lunches are very popular and a great way to combine socializing, delicious food and viewing (and buying) the latest trends. This month...

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