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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>
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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>With A Rose Between Her Teeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a direct link to Valerie&#8217;s story WITH A ROSE BETWEEN HER TEETH, a hilarious take on the expat experience in Spain. Please leave your comments and let Valerie know what you think of the story.]]></description>
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		<title>With A Rose Between Her Teeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now for something completely different. We are delighted to announce that one of Valerie&#8217;s funniest stories, With A Rose Between Her Teeth, was selected for inclusion in the Writers Abroad Short Story Anthology 2010. This is a fictional take on the British in Spain, most definitely in the Garlic spirit, written with Valerie&#8217;s hallmark humour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garlic Moments: A Train in Spain</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/09/garlic-moments-a-train-in-spain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christa Mundin of Gandía reports on her trip home from Barcelona last week. Arrived home safely but very late after a fun-packed journey. I arrived at the station in Barcelona to find the train was delayed by an hour and a half due to a fire at Montpellier station, its point of departure.  No probs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identity Crisis</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/04/identity-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureacracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people from the UK react with shock horror when I say that I am still Valerie Collins. They expect me to have a Spanish married name: some sort of aristocratic double or triple barreled mouthful: at the very least an exotic and probably unpronounceable surname. But many of them don’t realise that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between Two Fires</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2008/04/between-two-fires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between Two Fires: Guerrilla War in the Spanish Sierras is a gripping and deeply moving new book about &#8220;Spain&#8217;s forgotten war&#8221; by award-winning journalist David Baird written after five years of painstaking research. Published by Maroma Press]]></description>
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		<title>El Prat</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2008/03/el-prat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In view of the mega debacle at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 last week, and the chaos last summer at Barcelona’s Aeroport del Prat, we can only wait in trepidation to see what happens when the new Terminal Sur opens in 2009. It’s already behind schedule. According to Aena, the Spanish airport authority, (I translate) “The new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funcionary: Fall Around Laughing</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2008/03/funcionary-fall-around-laughing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does fighting the bureaucrats wear you out? Do you always have a form missing? Do you feel lost when applying for government subsidies? Well now you can practice with the hot new game&#8230; Practice your Spanish while falling around laughing. Here&#8217;s a transcript of the original Spanish and an English translation courtesy of In The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girona: An Armchair Guide</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2008/03/girona-an-armchair-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catalunya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I was in Girona to promote our book In The Garlic. I really like Girona. It&#8217;s quieter and more laid back and less built up than Barcelona. But it&#8217;s still &#8211; I hesitate to use this done-to-death word &#8211; vibrant. I was there for, amongst other things, a meeting of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Noise Police</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2008/01/the-noise-police/</link>
		<comments>http://inthegarlic.com/2008/01/the-noise-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[renovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back to the frenzy that is Barcelona in its normal state. I wake to the roar of engines and machines in our patio de manzana and go to the balcony to check. Oh great! They&#8217;ve come to clean off the obscene graffiti that appeared over the holidays in the playground below. Later, mid morning, I [...]]]></description>
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