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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Barcelona</title>
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	<description>I live in Rumeli Hisari. It is from here, the very edge of the European landmass, that I observe the world. Some of these observations I will share on this blog  as a  Open Society Fellow.</description>
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		<title>High Fidelity and my end of year list of favourites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[End of year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category>
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My favourite view in 2008 is from my desk: the Bosporus, early December morning 2008
In High Fidelity, Nick Hornby&#8217;s novel about &#8220;young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them, making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars&#8221;, the main hero has many problems, including often losing the plot, &#8220;the subplot, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Ramblas in November (Barcelona)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Anybody who in their youth has read George Orwell&#8217;s book on the Spanish Civil war in Catalonia is likely to think of him when visiting Barcelona.  Not that there is anything that reminds a visitor in November 2007 of the Spain in 1937 that Orwell evokes. His city was one in which armed guards [...]]]></description>
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