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		<title>Confessions of a jamón-eating “vegetarian”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not really a back-sliding vegetarian as I’ve never given up fish. In Spain, though, not eating meat is pretty close to being one; a vegetarian that is. What really marked me out as a ‘veggie’ over the years was my baffling refusal to eat Serrano ham – especially the premium quality stuff cured from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yo, rata</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Russian asistenta’s Spanish is – how shall I put it? – a bit incomprehensible, but we manage just fine.  Every Friday she lets herself in at 7 am and starts in the sala de estar – the opposite end to where we’re all asleep. One Friday I forgot to tell her that the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Tips for Surviving and Loving Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spanish life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This whole page should be kept in a museum,&#8221; said a very recent comment on our humorous article Ten things to know before moving to Spain,  which was the most commented of the year (2008) at Expatica.com. Enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>Garlic Moments: At The Pharmacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take heart, everyone.  I&#8217;ve been here for 39 years and the other day I made the most dreadful clanger at a pharmacy in Granada, where I was having a few days holiday. I suppose my castellano is a bit rusty as I mostly speak Catalan and English, but in fact I could have made exactly [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Catalunya]]></category>
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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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