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		<title>Skiing and the Holidays</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[American expat!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 15:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Spanish Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is skiing in Spain, decent skiing. And Andorra is close by with great skiing to be had. But this post is not about skiing per se. It&#8217;s about when to go skiing, and more importantly, when not to go skiing. You see, last weekend we hit the slope of Cerler, in the Aragonese mountains. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Where they will be good to me</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[American expat!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 23:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Life]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my early years of living here, the smallest acceptance or kindness would mean so much. Before I arrived, I took certain (OK many) things for granted. After arriving, and even still today, it&#8217;s quite simple to make me happy: Good customer service (so rare&#8230;), a helpful bank teller, a compliment from a stranger (wait, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A late August day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[American expat!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in barcelona]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[1 PM on a late August day. Walking through the old part of the city on a hot and still day. You can feel it will rain soon, the air has that quiet weight to it and you can smell the rain. It&#8217;s hot, but the sun is no longer beating down, the sky has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Evening stroll</title>
		<link>https://www.spainexpatblog.com/stroll-through-barcelona-neighborhood/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[American expat!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2016 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I frequently take a twilight stroll through my neighborhood in summer. This twilight hour is between 8:30 and 9:30PM, and it&#8217;s when everyone comes out. Last night was a typical walk and it went like this: I go down my street toward the Arc de Triomf monument. There are people on benches under the trees [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Repatriating Question</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[American expat!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2015 22:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repatriating]]></category>
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		<title>Where is the Volume Control Knob?</title>
		<link>https://www.spainexpatblog.com/noisy-spain/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[American expat!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why is spain so loud]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230;because I would like to notch it down, just a tad. Let me explain. Shouting is literally (and I don&#8217;t use that word as a misuse of the word figuratively. I mean Literally with a capital L) considered a normal speaking volume here. The other day I was in a shop selling specialty products from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dental work in Spain &#8211; Do I dare?</title>
		<link>https://www.spainexpatblog.com/dental-work-in-spain/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[American expat!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I need to get some chipped teeth fixed. I ask for recommendations and receive a few. I make an appointment with one that seems good. The receptionist looks like she brushes her teeth with tobacco. The dentist is about 30 and has a rotten front tooth. This is someone who is supposed to make my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Caught in a summer storm</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[American expat!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This time last year I got caught in a sudden summer storm. I left my office and was just reaching for a Bicing (shared city bike) around 9:00PM when the fat drops started to fall hard and fast. Within 30 seconds, the ground was completely wet as I made a run for shelter below the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Legal &#8211; The Non-Lucrative Residency Visa</title>
		<link>https://www.spainexpatblog.com/getting-legal-spanish-residency-visa/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[American expat!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 21:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[First Things First]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getting legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spanish visa]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few posts ago, we explored getting a long term student visa via a language school. If you don&#8217;t need to learn Spanish, there is another straightforward  residency visa you can apply for in Spain: The Non-Lucrative Residency Visa. This is an option you may not have considered yet, especially if you aren&#8217;t familiar with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Open letter to Spanish ladies</title>
		<link>https://www.spainexpatblog.com/open-letter-ladies-spain/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[American expat!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 17:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad fashion choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open letter to spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[popular Catalan hairstyle]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Dear Spanish ladies, I know you aren&#8217;t always at the cutting edge of fashion, what with the mullet still a popular hairstyle, wearing leggings as pants, and confusing style with the sporting of designer labels &#8211; and I don&#8217;t expect you to be. But I felt particularly pressed to speak up about a recent [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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