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		<title>La Rama &#8211; Yucatecan Christmas Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the weeks leading up to Christmas, in the more popular neighborhoods &#8211; popular being the local euphemism in Spanish for poor neighborhoods &#8211; you can see packs of children aged 5-13 or going door to door and singing; well actually chanting, a peculiar little refrain that apparently is a recreation of Mary and Josephs quest to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Europea &#8211; Nada Que Ver</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/12/24/la-europea-nada-que-ver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was shopping in Walmart City Center (because there&#8217;s nothing like doing some grocery shopping on December 23rd, right?) and decided to walk over to the newly opened La Europea store. La Europea is the well-known wine and liquor shop in Cancun that also has gourmet food items and a sandwich bar featuring fine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Safe in the Yucatan &#8211; A Real Life Example</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/12/13/youre-safe-in-the-yucatan-a-real-life-example/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s see the North American newspapers print something about THIS. Yesterday, when returning along the Cancun highway from Izamal after a hard day of eating tacos at Wayan&#8217;e, visiting antique shops and visiting the yellow city of Izamal, I passed a car parked on the side of the highway just in front of a state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wayan&#8217;E &#8211; Again</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/10/29/wayane-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After so many years of living here and not going, Wayan&#8217;E has received more visits from the Casual Restaurant Critic than usual, probably because of his rather sparse pocketbook situation (dictionary sales are down this lifetime) and also because Better Half is always on a trip someplace exotic. Read the previous review here; there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Reflects on her Merida Reno</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/10/14/pat-reflects-on-her-merida-reno/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/?p=1999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Authors note &#8211; so as not to confuse you, dear reader, this particular moment happened before Betty came to Pat&#8217;s house to discuss the Seidy &#8216;situation&#8217;) Enjoy! ******************************************************************************* &#8220;15 new messages&#8221; was Pat&#8217;s cue to begin clicking around her Facebook page, reading this and that until she remembered that she had wanted to replace the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat and Betty talk to Seidy (you decide where we are going next)</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/08/14/pat-and-betty-talk-to-seidy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/?p=1907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hola Seidy!&#8220;, said Betty with a smile when Seidy opened the door for her. &#8220;Está doña Pati?&#8221; Seidy smiled a shy half smile which Betty took as a sign of affirmation, lowering her eyes and moving out of the way so Betty could come in. The blond woman followed her to the indoor patio where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doña Juany &#8211; A Long Day</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/07/14/dona-juany-a-long-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plastic Coca Cola-red chair scraped along the colorful tile floor as Doña Juany dragged it through the sala and out the front door, setting it down on the sidewalk just outside the entrance to her old house. She glanced back inside for a moment, making sure she had turned off any lights she wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doña Juany gets a Headache</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/06/15/tihotales2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stepping out, broom in hand, into the relatively cool morning air in front of her colonial home that had once belonged to her parents and who had gone off and died, leaving her in charge of taking care of the old, crumbling family home, Doña Juany paused for a moment to take a breath. Fate. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with the Muchacha</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/06/11/tihotales1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/?p=1850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I mean it&#8217;s not like she&#8217;s actually stealing anything&#8221; said Pat, holding the cup of decidedly watery coffee with both hands, feeling the cups smoothness and marveling at the fact that you could even hold a fresh cup of coffee in a porcelain &#8211; albeit chipped &#8211; cup with both hands. Shouldn&#8217;t this be hotter? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New PhotoBook on Meridas Fabulous Doors Now Available!</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/06/04/new-photobook-on-meridas-fabulous-doors-now-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good pal and associate Ralf has published a new photobook of a very small selection of Merida&#8217;s beautiful doors, taken in downtown Merida one sunny afternoon! If you like reading this blog and have found some use for the information contained herein, you can support the effort and get an attractive Merida souvenir at [...]]]></description>
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