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		<title>Spanish Christmas Customs 5 – Saints and Canelons!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Esteban/Sant Esteve My Catalan mother-in-law could never relax on Christmas Day.  Plates with remains of chicken or turkey were whipped from under our noses, earthenware dishes hauled away for scrubbing. While we were still gut-busting our way through turrón, cava, coffee and brandy, or already flaked out, bloated and snoring, in armchairs, terrifying crashes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish Christmas Customs 4 – The Big Bun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roscón de Reyes “Mm, look what I&#8217;ve bought,&#8221; says Francisco every January 5, thrusting under my nose a giant ring-shaped bun with a few bits of red and green candied peel stuck on top and a plastic toy hidden somewhere inside for me to break a tooth on.  I fail to show much enthusiasm  . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish Christmas Customs 3 – the villancico</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Villancico The Spanish word for Christmas carol has its origin in the old Castilian word villano, meaning ‘villager’ – as opposed to noble or squire. During the 15th and 16th centuries the villancico was a jolly sort of song-and-dance knees up for country folk, and it was only in the following centuries that the songs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish Christmas Customs 2 : building the belén</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so you know what a belén is, but it took me years to realise that Belén is how the Spanish say Bethlehem, as in ‘O Little Town of’. I had always assumed that it just meant ‘Christmas crib’ or ‘Nativity Scene’ – which, of course, it does. Neither translation, however, does justice to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish Christmas Customs 1- Fleecing the relatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, yes, you’re all familiar with the Three Kings, the 12 lucky grapes and the big fat Gordo Lottery.  But you don’t know everything about Spanish Christmas customs, do you? Whatever, you can always refresh your memory and load up with extra bags of useless information for all those Christmas parties.  We start the countdown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who wants to be a caganer 2011</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2011/12/who-wants-to-be-a-caganer-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catalunya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here we go again, rolling out the Christmas stuff. Last year, you may recall, I got my act together enough to write a post about the caganer, and very popular and well-received it was. For newbies, or those too lazy to click on the old post to refresh their memories, the caganer is one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December in Spain</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2011/11/bridges-and-aqueducts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If  you think that December is an ordinary working month with a bit of extra shopping and a few days off for Christmas, think again. Here, December is about as productive as August, when the whole of Spain grinds to a halt. You simply cannot expect to buy a house, get a new kitchen put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muffled prawns, please: the best Spanish menu ever.</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2011/10/muffled-prawns-please-the-best-spanish-menu-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comparing Spanish and English]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, how we laughed. It&#8217;d been a long time since any of us had browsed such an inscrutable menu.  We worked out most of the items, though we did have a problem with &#8216;black poplars&#8217; (the bilingual among you, start racking your brains &#8230;). I won&#8217;t spoil your fun. Here is a sample of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garlic Moments: Lost in Translation</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2011/06/garlic-moments-lost-in-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosie Reay of Jesús (Tortosa) shares her hilariously surreal British passport renewal experience. Don&#8217;t you just love it every time you need to renew your documents in Spain? This saga has been running (should I say dawdling) along two channels. Since December we have been endeavouring to renew my mother&#8217;s passport. Under the EU you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calçotada: The Musical</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2011/04/calcotada-the-musical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catalunya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OMG as they say. Have just seen a post for an expat calçotada outing. Almost missed it again this season. So what’s the Garlic take (no pun intended) on the Catalans’ favourite gastronomic bash traditional to the town of Valls? The calçot looks like a cross between a leek and a spring onion, and is [...]]]></description>
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