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		<title>Ivan Leaves Valencia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is one of the hardest things that I have had to write.   I have started close to a dozen times - and avoided writing on so many more occasions - and not been able to see it through.  I suppose that the core issue is that I just don&#8217;t want to face what I have to say: we have left Valencia; left our beloved Spain.
Why? How? Wherefore? ...<br/>
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		<title>Three today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[March 28th is a pretty important day in the Larcombe/Mead family calendar.  On that date in 2006, two weeks after the due date, Oscar Mead made his first appearance in the world.  You&#8217;d think that this date would be etched into our minds forever; unforgettable, totally.
Not so.  This March 28th, Oscar&#8217;s third birthday, almost came and...<br/>
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		<title>Fallas burn out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[3 AM on the night of March 19th, the last day of Las Fallas, and I had every intention of writing a post about what I had just seen and experienced.  I got as far as sitting down in front of the computer and sorting through some photographs, then&#8230;BOOM!  Fallas burn-out hit me.  36 hours later I can finally face this small task, just...<br/>
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		<title>Fervor not Flames - Ofrenda de las Flores</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Do they burn the Virgin?
I think this is the first question that any newcomer to Las Fallas asks.  I mean, if they are about incinerate 500 or so fallas, the most expensive representing an investment of over 1 million euros, what&#8217;s to stop them here?
As it turns out, the Virgin is not reduced to ashes.  She is allowed to stand in her flowery...<br/>
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		<title>Fallas Fireworks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Real Blast
Wow, the Valencians love gunpowder.  From our fifth-floor perch we can hear countless explosions throughout the day and night - and we are lucky enough to be able to see a good portion of the nightly fireworks display in the Turia park (a dry riverbed system that amazes me with its vastness).
Last night I came home to a sleeping...<br/>
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		<title>Las Fallas - too much and too little</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the past week I&#8217;ve written thousands of words about both the past and the present of Las Fallas, Valencia&#8217;s signature celebration.  As ridiculous as it seems not to dedicate a lengthy and detailed post to this virtually inexhaustible subject (or inextinguishable?) event, I just can&#8217;t do it.
Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m offering...<br/>
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		<title>This is Home: Family before Country Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In part one of this post, I gave some background into my national identity, or lack thereof.  I talked about the elusiveness of the moment in which it could be said that I became Canadian (having been taken to Canada from England as a child) and the decisive moment in which I later realized that Spain was home to a culture that felt like home to...<br/>
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		<title>This is Home: Family before Country Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Recently I wrote a post about my perception of whether or not I am an expat.  I was very happy to read the comments that followed and also keenly aware that my views on patriotism don&#8217;t sit easily with many people.  Since writing that post - and reading the comments that it inspired - my thoughts have been returning to the subject of...<br/>
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		<title>A Craving for Oak: Back to ‘Big’ White</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have always been amazed at how wine gets around.  In Canada we drank wines from all over the world and it seemed clear that the global marketplace was getting smaller.  Trends that we saw as winedrinkers in British Columbia appeared to be happening all over the planet.  Now I think that maybe that&#8217;s not quite the case.
Back in BC, Katie...<br/>
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		<title>Jamón, jamón - the event</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the things that I most love from Spain&#8217;s culinary arsenal is jamón serrano.  One of the things I like least in life is not having all the answers.  Last week, it was time for these two things to come head to head at our house in an event that we dubbed jamón, jamón.  (It may not be the most inventive name, but the event itself...<br/>
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