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		<title>The Car Inspection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my least favourite summer-in-the-city rituals is the ITV – that is, the yearly Inspección Técnica de Vehículos.  Mine is always due in late July, when Barcelona is at its stickiest and most irritable. Last year, despite having hora (an appointment), I sat for hours (with air-con bust) in a queue that stretched a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horchata saves the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mm, horchata. Thick, creamy, ice-cold. You either love it or loathe it. There are no half measures. Made by crushing the life out of tiger nuts (chufas) and mixing with sugar and water, you&#8217;ll find it at any good heladería swimming around in a glass tank next to the lemon granizado (sort of slush-puppy).  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garlic Moments: Not a Cybercafe</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/05/garlic-moments-not-a-cybercafe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 11:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Applying for self-employed sick pay in Spain.]]></description>
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		<title>Hungry, heaving or headlights? Hand Signals Part 2</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/04/hungry-heaving-or-headlights-hand-signals-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/04/hungry-heaving-or-headlights-hand-signals-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Two of the first fillers you ever pick up in Spanish are más o menos (more or less) and así-así (so-so), phrases that you hear over and over again in everyday exchanges. Half the time you don&#8217;t even hear them: you see them. “How was the exam?” Hold out your arm and rotate your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeve cuts and sausages: hand signals part 1</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/04/gestures-spain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 
The most obscene gesture in Spain is the forearm jerk, known as el corte de manga, or &#8217;sleeve cut&#8217;. Much favoured by tantrumy footballers, this involves shooting the left arm straight up at a 90 degree angle while whacking your right palm into the elbow joint. The underlying message, which may or may not [...]]]></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>
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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 even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferrets and falsies</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/04/ferreterias-shops-in-spain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shopping in Spain reminds me of how things used to be in the UK. Yes, there are masses of out of town shopping centres, and yes, you will find all the major chains in the High Street, but there&#8217;s still room for the &#8216;little guys&#8217;, for the quirky independent establishments that somehow manage to thrive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks go home</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/03/starbucks-go-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard the ‘good’ news? Starbucks is coming to Malaga. Or at least to Malaga airport- when the new terminal opens this Easter.  It’s eight years now since the first two Starbucks opened in Madrid. Today there are 71 of them cluttering up the centres of Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla. There are also two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garlic Moments: Correos and the Ley de Falta Uno</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/03/garlic-moments-correos-and-the-ley-de-falta-uno/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I fell foul of La Ley de Falta Uno (The Law of One Thing Missing), which, as formulated by us, states that you can never ever complete a bureaucratic transaction in one go. Even something as apparently straightforward as picking up a registered letter at Correos is also subject to the law, as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garlic Moments: Phones and Numbers</title>
		<link>http://inthegarlic.com/2010/03/garlic-moments-georgina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know what a Garlic Moment is.  Send us yours and we&#8217;ll post the best: they should not only be amusing but also helpful and instructive.  To kick off, here&#8217;s Georgina Tremayne from Barcelona with &#8211; what else? &#8211; a telephone problem.
Fatal Construction
Moving from one apartment to another apartment in the same town isn’t [...]]]></description>
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