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	<title>River Ebro Babble &#187; Fiestas</title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Fiesta Time in Mora d&#8217;Ebre!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you think life in rural Spain is pretty quiet do you? Not much going on? Bit boring perhaps? Well, you&#8217;d be surprised! There&#8217;s barely a month goes by without some fiesta or celebration going on somewhere. But in the summer  from the smallest village to the major cities  &#8211; Spain rocks! Today is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Breakfast</title>
		<link>http://www.riverebro.com/2011/02/sunday-breakfast-clotx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now can you imagine 600 or so people turning out in England on a Sunday morning at the end of February for a communal outdoor breakfast of a sardine sarnie and red-wine? Nah! Me neither! But that is exactly what we did this morning here in Catalonia, Spain! It was the Festa de la Clotxa. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cr**py&#8221; Catalan Christmas Customs!  El Caganer and El Tió</title>
		<link>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/12/catalan-christmas-customs-el-caganer-and-el-tio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get right to the point:- in my Catalan/English dictionary &#8220;Caga&#8221; is translated as &#8220;shit&#8221; and &#8220;El Caganer&#8221; is translated as &#8220;the shitter&#8221;.  As you&#8217;ll see that&#8217;s not at all offensive to the Catalans but as those words may sound offensive to some let&#8217;s settle on the words &#8220;poop&#8221; and &#8220;the pooper&#8221; for the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing with Devils -The Catalan Correfoc</title>
		<link>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/07/dancing-with-devils-the-catalan-correfoc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was our first Fiesta Mayor in Catalonia. 10 days of party and entertainment and tonight there was to be something called a &#8220;Correfoc&#8221;. There was an air of anticipation as we stood waiting with the crowds. Suddenly, all the street lights were extinguished and we heard drums in the distance. My skin prickled! A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Visions, One World &#8211; The Mora Morisca</title>
		<link>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/06/three-visions-one-world-the-mora-morisca-mora-debre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/06/three-visions-one-world-the-mora-morisca-mora-debre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Three Visions, One World&#8221; is the slogan associated with the Mora Morisca festival held each year  in Mora d&#8217;Ebre. I love the Morisca! It has to be one of my favourite weekends! Banners flutter across the streets depicting  a cross, a moon and a star. Over there I see a group of medieval soldiers. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miravet Cherry Fiesta</title>
		<link>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/06/miravet-cherry-fiesta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the second Sunday in June Miravet holds its annual  Cherry Fiesta in the large square by the riverside -Plaza del Arenal. Its fabulous location by the River Ebro, the Castle of Miravet looking down from above and great atmosphere makes this a popular fiesta for both tourists and the residents of  Miravet its surrounding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So many fiestas &#8211; not enough time!</title>
		<link>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/04/so-many-fiestas-not-enough-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/04/so-many-fiestas-not-enough-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a dilemma this weekend. It is May 1st tomorrow and it is a holiday here. No shops open Saturday or Sunday! That&#8217;s not my problem though.  The difficulty is trying to decide what I&#8217;m going to do because there are so many things happening this weekend. Tomorrow morning there is the annual guided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Fair in Falset &#8211; the Gateway to the Priorat</title>
		<link>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/04/wine-fair-in-falset-the-gateway-to-the-priorat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/04/wine-fair-in-falset-the-gateway-to-the-priorat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend 1st and 2nd of May is the annual wine fair in Falset. Falset is a pretty market town of barely 3000 inhabitants which is the capital of the Priorat region. During this weekend it becomes a showcase for the wines of the Priorat and Montsant and is attended by professionals in the industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calҫotada- The Onion Fiesta! Mes que una ceba!</title>
		<link>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/02/cal%d2%abotada-the-onion-fiesta-mes-que-una-ceba/</link>
		<comments>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/02/cal%d2%abotada-the-onion-fiesta-mes-que-una-ceba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you come to live in Catalonia, one thing you soon notice is the universal celebration of  food! There are fiestas  dedicated to cherries, peaches, rice, wine, artichokes (I kid you not!) oysters, oranges &#8211; in fact virtually anything that is grown and harvested! During the winter months there is a very special product that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day the Animals went to Church</title>
		<link>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/01/the-day-the-animals-went-to-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.riverebro.com/2010/01/the-day-the-animals-went-to-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No sooner have the &#8220;Bon Nadal&#8221; greetings and decorations been taken down there is yet another Saint&#8217;s day. January 17th is the Festa Sant Antoni -the Catholic patron saint of domestic animals. The religious story relates that Antoni lived as a hermit in the Egyptian desert where he underwent many temptations by the Devil. His [...]]]></description>
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