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Kebabs are always a messy affair - probably only a twelfth-degree black belt has the skills to eat it using only one teensy-weensy European napkin. The wrap-style ones are always tough to eat, because they invariable leak sauce all over the place when you get to the last little bit. I felt like such a slob for using so many napkins until ...

Three Kings

January 6th 2010
Geo: 43.3718, -8.39592Up early for mass at the Cathedral - scheduled for today is a swinging of the botafumeiro, a giant incense burner that swings through the nave. It normally only happens about 25 times per year, but we are lucky that 2010 is considered a holy year, when it swings almost daily. Supposedly, the tradition of the botafumeiro started as a means of combating the smell of the pilgr ... read more

Europe » Spain » Galicia

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 ... ... read more

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