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	<title>Pond Jumpers: Spain - Madrid, Spain Blog</title>
	
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	<description>Jay and Kelly Larbes’s blog about living in Madrid, Spain (and formerly, Split, Croatia) to see more of the world while they are young and childless.</description>
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		<title>Free Split City Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 18:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Larbes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Our friends Mario and Milda are among the smart people we know in Croatia trying to overcome the ridiculous bureaucracy to run a successful business. They just launched a new addition to their Dalmatia Events event planning company: a Free Split City Tour. Jay and I really enjoyed free city tours we took in Berlin, Budapest, and Prague, so we think this is an excellent idea.<br/>
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		<title>Which did I like better – Croatia or Madrid?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Larbes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been back home in Cincinnati now for just over a month and one of the most common questions I hear is whether I liked Croatia or Madrid better. At first I found this question nearly impossible to answer because both are so dear to my heart, but I think I figured it out. If I could only live abroad for a year or two and I had to pick just one, it would be Croatia. And if I had to pick one to live in forever, it would<br/>
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		<title>Southern, Spain: The Alhambra in Granada, the white villages, Seville, and an awful ending in Cordoba</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Larbes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As I write this, I am on my long flight back to the United States reflecting on what an amazing two years it has been. I've gotten to see so many fascinating places.<br/>
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		<title>Prague, the city of a hundred spires</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Larbes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I visited Prague two weekends ago with my good friend, Paula, from Split, Croatia. As we walked across the Charle's Bridge at night we laughed because we couldn't help but think that we should have each really been there holding hands with our significant other. One of Prague's nicknames is the city of a hundred spires, which it earned in the early 1800s when it actually had around a hundred spires.<br/>
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		<title>Solo Traveling: The Hanging Houses and Ars Natura in Cuenca, Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Larbes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last Friday the NY Times wrote an article about Cuenca, Spain, which was impeccable timing because I had plans to visit on Sunday. The article said if you have never heard of Cuenca to blame it on Toledo. Toledo gets all of the buzz as being the best day trip from Madrid, but Cuenca may soon be getting more<br/>
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		<title>New Years in Lithuania</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Larbes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What I will remember most about spending New Years in Lithuania with Milda and Mario is how bitterly cold it was. I am just not made for the cold. The great company will be a close second, especially Milda’s dog, Baris (No insult intended towards the company of Milda and Mario, but Baris was so cool). Lithuania’s weather made memories of Munich feel like summer. I wished I had my long down-filled<br/>
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		<title>Munich, Salzburg and our first Vegetarian Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Larbes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Since it wasn't practical to fly across the ocean to be with family, Jay and I decided to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays with friends in Europe. On Christmas Eve, we arrived in Munich, Germany to visit our friends, Ken and Jenna. They are Americans (from Cincinnati and Cleveland) living the ex-pat life<br/>
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		<title>Happy New Year 2011 Post-It Stop Motion Animation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Larbes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Happy New Year to all of our family and friends. We had such a blessed year in 2010 and are excited to see what 2011 has in store for us. We are most looking forward to being back in Cincinnati and spending time with those we love. Below is a 90-second New Year video I made frame by frame with post-it notes.<br/>
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		<title>We are Moving Home to Cincinnati: Questions and Answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Larbes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Jay and I are moving back to our hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. We've made Split, Croatia and Madrid, Spain our homes for almost two years, but Cincinnati has always been our true home. Jay will be headed home January 2 and I will be home at the end of February.<br/>
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		<title>Trying to Become Fluent in Spanish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Larbes</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Before I came to Spain I made a goal to become fluent in four months. It was an arbitrary time period and the definition of fluent was pretty arbitrary too, but I wanted to have a goal. Fluent for me is being able to speak without fear of messing up (even though I will always make errors) and to be able to understand native speakers easily whether they are talking to me in person or on the phone<br/>
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