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Background: Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in economic and political power. Spain remained neutral in World Wars I and II, but suffered through a devastating civil war (1936-39). In the second half of the 20th century, Spain has played a catch-up role in the western international community; it joined the EU in 1986. Continuing challenges include Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) terrorism and further reductions in unemployment.



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I´ve been bad. Out of touch. Working alot, the usual excuses. I work 7 days a week and dont have alot of time online anymore, any time i do have is spent feeding my ´Wii´ habit and getting a few hours sleep (I just can´t resist another 9 holes!) So as most of you know already, despite much resistance on my part, the big 30 eventually rolled around and i ´celebrated´ with a big kid picnic on the beach next to our place in mataro. After a shocking week of rain, the sun surfaced long enough for us to make [View Full Entry]

KiwiAngela - Angela-Marie Desmarais | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
219 Words | 11 Comment(s) | 32 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: April 18th 2007 | 293 Views | [diary=153823]

my muffin message
the gang
My Wonderful Present!

The Cake
The Cake
One cup of Espresso in there just can't be wrong!
It was Birthday time for Becks so I got busy in the kitchen and baked a chocolate cake which had one cup of coffee listed in the ingredients. Oh yeah, now we're talking. I used straight espresso of course and literally topped it all off with melted white chocolate and LOLLIES! She's damn lucky I didn't gobble it all up there and then... Come 10 o'clock we all met down at the train station on the coast and made our way to the beach, a storm was threatening but a bit of water wasn't gonna set us back. Becks arrived shortly [View Full Entry]

KiwiAngela - Angela-Marie Desmarais | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 24th 2006 | 263 Views | [diary=90678]

The Cake
Ang, Becks, Juan
Juan, Becks

Sushi and PhotoFace
Sushi and PhotoFace
The first supper
¡Hola Chicos! It´s been just over 2 months since I arrived here in Spain and with so much happening in such a short time that I feel like I´ve been here forever. Last time I wrote was Nicks farewell. I was here for just a few days and wasn´t exactly feeling ´in the zone´. I thought I´d made the wrong decision moving to Barcelona BUT then along came Mataró. 35mins north of BCN by train, population 100,000, I stepped off the train, looked out to the Mediteranean Sea and said ´honey I´m home!´ I´ll skip the bits in between for now [View Full Entry]

KiwiAngela - Angela-Marie Desmarais | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 18th 2006 | 241 Views | [diary=89469]

The infamous couch
Ang and Gerard
Climbing frame on Mataró beach