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Mar
25
Yasmin Rahmani

Las Fallas or Santander?

It’s truly an unfortunate predicament.  As a foreigner living in Valencia for the first time, missing Las Fallas is all but blasphemous.  It is arguably the most important week in Valencia.  However, thanks to some untimely planning, La Comisión Fulbright decided that this would be the week to have our obligatory mid-year meeting. Of course, only in Spain would a “mid” year meeting be held when the...
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Mar
8
Yasmin Rahmani

The art of keeping up with yesterday

The blog gods should punish me for this, but it was inevitable.  A quarter of a year has gone by, so where in the world is Yasmin? Did she fell off the face of the earth?  It would be a great excuse, but evidence of my presence on the social media map remains thanks to inferior means. And by inferior, I am referring to facebook status updates.  Ah yes, facebook, also known as the ultimate expression of procrastination. My...
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Nov
30
Yasmin Rahmani

Yasmin Katha Barcelona

Yea, I know.  I’m running out of witty titles for my blog entries, but this was just too hard to resist.  For those of you who don’t recognize it, I’m referring to Woody Allen’s film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.  I watched it before coming to Spain along with a couple of Almodóvar’s films as part of my so-called preparation for Spain.   I was sadly disappointed when my visit...
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Nov
10
Yasmin Rahmani

A weekend in Moraira en la Costa Blanca

I had no idea that I had family here in Spain.  And so close to me too!   Jamie and his wife Maria live on the Costa Blanca, in an old fishing pueblo nestled between Denia and Benidorm.  But before we start, let’s begin with a lesson in Genealogy. Kinship Terminology 101. Jamie (nickname for Jamshid) is the son of my grandfather’s sister, Ameh Magol.  Ameh Magol was my mother’s aunt, which...
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Nov
3
Yasmin Rahmani

Feria de Todos los Santos, Cocentaina

For those of you who have kept up with my blog, you know I spent my first few weeks here in Spain in Paloma’s pueblo of Cocentaina.  Since my visa was not valid until the 15th of August, I just barely missed the Moros y Cristianos festival. I’ll have to wait until next year to see it, but the 1st of November marks yet another important feria in Cocentaina, the Fiesta de Todos los Santos (All Saints’...
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Oct
14
Yasmin Rahmani

Fiesta del Pilar en Zaragoza

Katha and I decided to spend our first Puente (holiday weekend) in Zaragoza, for the Fiesta del Pilar. Everyone else was planning to come to Valencia, for the Dia de la Comunidad (9 d’Octubre), but the most important events where the fireworks Thursday night and the Mascletà and parade the next day. What are Mascletás?  Basically, a type of street firework during the daytime producing lots and lots of...
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Aug
28
Yasmin Rahmani

Vamos a la Playa

Here in Spain, the month of August is the month for vacation.  I discovered this while walking down the streets of Cocentaina and reading the signs outside of each tienda, some stating that they were closed for the entire month.  What a shame when you compare this to the measly 10-days most people in the US get for vacation.  The statistics are very telling, you can read more about it here. Those stores that...
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