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	<description>Observations on a New Life in Spain</description>
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		<title>SOUNDSCAPE: Spain winning the FIFA world cup</title>
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 The moment Spain makes it first goal, recorded from our terrazza near the beach.

 The sound of victory; Spain wins the 2010 FIFA trophy and the city is awash with celebration.
We are now living in Barceloneta in our newly renovated (and painted) attic apartment near the beach, so I will resume this blog with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Room with a view</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we all came to our fixer-upper to stay for Easter holidays I thought I&#8217;d just be staying here a few days and then return to Gracia. Instead I am addicted to here, to my spot

 1) My Spot 2) Surf&#8217;s up on our beach today! 
There are many parallels to when we lived on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trocito de Sol &#8211; A slice of sunshine</title>
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 1) My new writing spot 2) I have taught our dogs to do this pose anywhere, anytime&#8230; so why not on our new beach? 
I have been staying here in Barceloneta for almost a week now &#8211; we came out a couple days before Easter and although Mark had to go &#8220;home&#8221; to Gracia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bliss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following photo of my dog, Quixôte posed on a sculpture in front of the new Hotel W in Barceloneta says it all, as to the latest turn of events in my life:  Living in a state of Bliss 
We recently bought a &#8220;fixer upper&#8221; attico piso located in a great spot in Barceloneta, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The day it snowed in Gracia, Barcelona</title>
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 MAY 8, 2010 &#8211; THE DAY IT SNOWED IN BARCELONA 
It never snows in Barcelona. I hear the last time it snowed was 25 years ago. So when we woke up on Monday, May 8 it was a drizzly day, so we set about our morning errands with umbrellas. It was so chilly I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tangible Signs of the Crisi Global in Gracia, Barcelona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[cion]]></description>
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		<title>Microwave experiment in the name of art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When our microwave oven started acting up recently we knew it was time to buy a new one. But first I had to try the experiment &#8220;for the sake of art&#8221; to find out if indeed, an egg will explode in a microwave oven. So before throwing out the old microwave, I did the test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Holidays and New Years in Florence, Italy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 Holiday decor, downtown Florence 

 Quixote posed in front of Ponte Vecchio, Florentine Cristmas Tree

 Happy 2010 from Florence 

 Fireworks over Ponte Vecchio

 On New Years Eve it was raining, but it did not stop the show from going on&#8230;
The 2 weeks we spent in Florence was peppered with really fun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The drinking fountains of Barcelona</title>
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 Click to hear drinking fountain sound

 The ubiquitous drinking fountains of Barcelona are unique to this city. I am surprised there is not more information easily accessible on the subject. 

 Don&#8217;t drink from this fountain unless you want to come back to Barcelona in the future. 
When Mark and I first visited Barcelona [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in the Life of Mona-Lia (soundscape)</title>
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My morning begins with espresso. I love this sound. 
We normally get up around 10 am, sometimes earlier sometimes later. Until I here this sound, I do not consider myself to be awake:
After coffee and a doggie poo walk we open up our comfortable, air-conditioned  Partners in Rhyme headquarters. We have an old fashioned [...]]]></description>
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