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		<title>A Spanish Mum is Born</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Collins
It was simply too good to be true. After ten years of a blissful dearth of dealings with Spanish officialdom, it was time to renew my Spanish identity card. Off I went to the new police station, clutching enough reading matter for a morning’s arduous queuing, wondering whether I should have taken a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catalan Got Your Tongue?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Collins 
Say what you like about Catalan. Say it sounds like dogs barking, as they sometimes do elsewhere in Spain. Complain that it’s short, sharp and brusque, not at all like the romantic Julio Iglesias or sex-drenched Shakira tones you dreamed of. Moan that you found it difficult enough to learn Spanish and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Escape</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Theresa O&#8217;Shea
About a month after we became the proud owners of our first-ever mortgage, Francisco locked me in the bedroom. It was an accident, of course. Old country houses oozing with character  tend to come with old country keys, long, heavy and well-worn, the kind that have the chap at your local ferretería (hardware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Grapes and Garlic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Theresa O&#8217;Shea
September&#8217;s a great month in Spain. The country has mostly gone back to work, it no longer takes nine hours to get served in a restaurant, you can roll over on your beach towel without landing on someone&#8217;s lap /grandma /dachshund, and the idea of swapping sea and sand for the fun and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Catalan Picnic Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Collins
You know the scenario. Summer in the city. The temperature hits 35ºC and humidity 99%.  You lie around in your underwear, watching adverts on TV for canned iced tea and coffee, indefinably pornographic ice creams, fly sprays, deodorants and air-con.  It’s time for the Catalan Picnic Experience, a highly elaborate ritual that bears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An A to Z of Spanish Weddings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theresa O'Shea tied the knot with her long-standing Spanish partner here on the coast in June 2007.We take a look at her linguistic and cultural survival guide to a Spanish wedding.]]></description>
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		<title>Men in Black Stockings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Collins
My first love was a tuno. Imagine a naive 18-year-old, on what is now called the gap year&#8230;out on the streets of Valencia of a Saturday night, glimpses of flying black cloak and coloured ribbons, guitars and tambourines on the breeze&#8230;standing on the balcony of our crappy student flat while this dark, handsome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting the Master</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Collins
There’s seldom space to swing a cat at the Museu Picasso de Barcelona. After all, Picasso was the great innovative genius of 20th century art. The crowds are particularly dense around the huge grisaille of Las Meninas, Picasso’s opening ‘interpretation’ of Velázquez’s celebrated 1656 painting in the Prado of the artist himself painting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Con Franco Vivíamos Mejor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inthegarlic.com/?p=272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Collins
1993. Aznar and Felipe have just had their big pre-election debate on TV. My son, aged eight, born into democracy and the Autonomous Community of Catalunya, is worried. &#8220;If Aznar wins, will it be like Franco?&#8221;
Apart from the moustache, what was Franco like?
Fade to Barcelona, 1973, the tail end of la dictadura.  Barcelona  [...]]]></description>
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