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Yesterday, Saturday the 1st of September was Katia’s 28th. Celebrations started in earnest on the night of the Friday. I cooked a nice dinner of Cod with a continental style sauce and fresh oriental mushrooms, served on a flat monster mushroom and spiced tomato bed and crowned by asparagus-like shooting broccoli stems. Contemporary cooking at its best, a beautiful blend of flavours slowly revealing themselves different at every bite as the various layers of the dish gave way to each other. All washed with cold white wine making for the perfect start to a very nice weekend. Birthday cake and candles followed, but presents remained firmly locked away until Saturday morning.

At 7:30 am Katia couldn’t sleep any longer and got out of the room to find her present in a neat little pile outside the room. Notepads and pens made the bulk of them, and tucked away in a little bag, a green iPod nano which she’d been wanting to have for a while now.

At night we went to Nueva Costa Dorada, a flamenco-themed restaurant tucked away just outside Tottenham Corut Road tube station. The food was nothing special, but the staff were mostly firnedly and didn’t mind most of the guests showing up over 1 hour late for our dinner, which we ordered about 2 hours too late and enjoyed while the show was going on. The show itself -a guitarist, a singer and up to 2 dancers- was nice and short enough, followed by Spanish and latin tunes by the DJ. Time flew and we had to run, once again, to make it on time to the 1.00 am train from Victoria.

Here are the photos from both days.

Roberto Hortal

Head of Digital - EDF Energy --- I am an eBusiness Director with many years of experience in great businesses across the world. Born and bred in Benidorm, Spain, I started my eBusiness career in the 90s with Nokia in Helsinki, heading Nokia’s Global Web organisation for a number of years. In 2004 I moved to the UK to join easyJet. I led easyJet.com into its current form at a frantic startup pace. In 2006 I joined RSA as MORE TH>N Head of eBusiness. From 2009 I led the effort of replicating MORE TH>N’s online success across Central and Eastern Europe. In August 2011 I became Head of Digital at EDF Energy, where I lead EDF Energy's ambitious Digital B2C Strategy.

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