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		<title>Lisbon &amp; Stick Shift Failures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most European cars are manual, a fact that drastically narrowed the number of potential drivers. Two people, victims rather, were then left. Two out of the total five that would take turns behind the wheel on our coast to coast road trip from Valencia to Lisbon, Portugal.
We left Valencia at midnight, five girls squeezing into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amherstwire.com/blogs/globalbeat/2010/03/29/lisbon-stick-shift-failures/</link>
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		<title>Valencia: pyromania central</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valencia is home to “Las Fallas”, one of the most popular and outrageous week long festivals in Europe. Fallas, always held in mid-March, is seven round-the-clock days of street partying in honor of Saint Joseph (San Jose here) and the beginning of spring. Each neighborhood of Valencia builds a “falla”, a gigantic papier-mâché sculpture soaring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amherstwire.com/blogs/globalbeat/2010/03/29/valencia-pyromania-central/</link>
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		<title>The Hike to Cristo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My chance to return to the mountain came quicker than I thought it would. A friend of the group, Sam, who studied in Oviedo last semester, offered to take the UMass crew tothe very top.  There, stands a giant statue of Jesus Christ. Every day on my walk to school, I see the small figure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amherstwire.com/blogs/globalbeat/2010/03/22/the-hike-to-cristo/</link>
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		<title>The Climb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, for the first time in what seems like months, I felt the sun on my face. The sky was bright blue, with not a cloud in sight. In a place where rain is almost always in the forecast, I couldn’t help but feel ecstatic. My friends and I decided to take advantage of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amherstwire.com/blogs/globalbeat/2010/03/20/the-climb/</link>
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		<title>It’s raining in Ireland and all is right with the world.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s raining in Ireland and all is right with the world.
Usually the consequence of an all-too-true stereotype about the country, this recent bout of showers is a welcome departure of the ice, sleet, floods and locusts (just kidding) that have had the city of Cork under siege as of late. From the moment I got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amherstwire.com/blogs/globalbeat/2010/03/15/it%e2%80%99s-raining-in-ireland-and-all-is-right-with-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Rain, Rugby, Rest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For as long as I can remember I have never enjoyed watching or playing sports. So when my friends suggested that we go to a rugby game, I was surprised to hear myself agreeing.  After a long Friday night out on calle mon, I woke up Saturday at 10 a.m. to meet my friends for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amherstwire.com/blogs/globalbeat/2010/03/12/rain-rugby-rest/</link>
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		<title>Epic Fail Party of Four?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As my friends and I hopped onto the Picadilly Line at around 6:15pm, headed for Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3, and 5, I knew we were cutting it close. Even though London is one of the biggest cities in Europe, it’s not nearly as fast-paced as most U.S. cities. So it shouldn’t have been a huge surprise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amherstwire.com/blogs/globalbeat/2010/02/22/epic-fail-party-of-four/</link>
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		<title>Siesta Super-Fan</title>
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		<link>http://amherstwire.com/blogs/globalbeat/2010/02/22/siesta-super-fan/</link>
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		<title>Spanish Cuisine: Hot Dogs?</title>
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Living with a host family has many great benefits, one of them being that you’re given three meals a day. My host mother is a wonderful cook. Over the course of the past month we’ve enjoyed many typical Spanish dishes such as paella, jamon cocinado, and potato tortilla. Our “senora” makes it a point to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amherstwire.com/blogs/globalbeat/2010/02/12/spanish-cuisine-hot-dogs/</link>
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		<title>Surviving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke Monday morning feeling as though I contracted the flu. I hate missing classes, so I decided to go, with hope that I would feel better as the day went on. I was wrong. When I arrived home from class, I went straight to bed without lunch. A few hours later, when I still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amherstwire.com/blogs/globalbeat/2010/02/05/surviving/</link>
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