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	<description>Observations on a New Life in Spain</description>
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		<title>Tourist in my own city – helicopter ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Mark&#8217;s birthday this year I bought us a helicopter ride over Barcelona and Montserrat. This an expensive trip, the 35 minute one that takes you to Montserrat, but there are other more affordable ones, like the 10 minute ride over the city. It was awesome to see our chosen city from yet another perspective. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tourist in My Own City – part 2 (Columbus statue)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[View of Las Ramblas from inside the Columbus statue. From here it is easy to see how Las Ramblas was once a river dumping into the harbor. Today Quixote and I are going to see if we can ride the rickety elevator to the top of the Cristopher Columbus statue at the end of Las [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tourist in my own city – part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been living here in Barcelona for over 5 years now, yet the city never ceases to amaze me. Some days I like to pretend I&#8217;m a tourist, and I&#8217;ll check out some of the more popular attractions. I often combine a tourist outing with a hike. I am always accompanied by my dog Quixote. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year 2012!]]></description>
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		<title>Go Barça!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tot el camp es un clam som la gent Blau Grana Tan se val d&#8217;on venim Si del sud o del nord ara estem d&#8217;acord estem d&#8217;acord una bandera ens agermana. Blau Grana al vent un crit valent tenim un nom el sap tothom Barça!, Barça!, Baaaarça!!!! †¥† Although I am not a soccer fan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My dog, Quixote, is a star!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My canine companion Quixote exudes charisma: 1 &#8211; Quixote as the 5th Beatle. 2 &#8211; &#8220;El Chiquitin&#8221; posing in the music studio. I threw together this slide show to give a feeling of my dog&#8217;s personality and photogenic stances. He will be featured in future posts about life in the city, so I thought I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August in Barcelona Only a few moments after posting my final India (Goa) blog we have a fluke hailstorm, almost as if St. Francis Xavier wants to admonish me for exposing his dubious legacy in India; the heavens open up in a fast and furious but short lived summer storm: †¥† Which is followed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(From March 2011) We decide to travel out of Kerala to experience a different region. We do some research and this video of Goa I find on on YouTube entices us to choose Goa, specifically Vagator Beach: We book a room at the hotel this video promotes and will be both charmed and surprised when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warm Arabian Coast of Cherai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click on thumbnail shots if you want a closer view of the toddy moonshine process. It is Sunday afternoon and we have been driving all morning. Almost all businesses are closed, except a handful of temples and churches. Our driver is hungry and is on the look out for any half way decent place to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kottayam Backwaters in Kerala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video combines both Alleppy and Kottayam backwater footage We sleep in and check out at around 11:30, ignoring Rajeev&#8217;s hurry. He spoke with Bijoy this morning, who suggested we explore the Kottayam backwaters, located about half way back to the coast. We are told there is a completely different vibe in Kottayam than in [...]]]></description>
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