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		<title>Mexico Magico &#8211; Travel &amp; Leisure Magazine Rates San Miguel in Top Ten</title>
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Greetings all!  I thought you might want to know that Travel &#38; Lesiure magazine has just rated San Miguel in its top ten cities in the Americas.  You can read the full article, with lots of interesting stuff abot San miguel, here:
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/mexico-magico
Hope to see you there this summer!
J
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		<link>http://unopress.org/blog/2008/11/12/mexico-magico-travel-leisure-magazine-rates-san-miguel-in-top-ten/</link>
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		<title>Madrid and San Miguel Veteran Nikki Gordy Discusses Faith, Cobblestones, and Crema de Aguacate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this, my second summer in a Spanish-speaking country outside of the U.S., I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that living abroad is a faith-building exercise.
You have faith that you will not forget to pack anything vital, and that the stores where you are going will carry the vital things you will undoubtedly forget to pack.
You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unopress.org/blog/2008/10/16/madrid-and-san-miguel-veteran-nikki-gordy-discusses-faith-cobblestones-and-crema-de-aguacate/</link>
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		<title>Casey Lefante on Climbing too Close to the Sun, and Teotihuacan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Teotihuacán, you climb the Pyramid of the Sun. You stand nearer to the edge than you think you should. Don’t watch the people who pant as they reach the top, their faces puffy and pink. Don’t watch the children who run as though they are on a playground and not a sacred temple. Don’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unopress.org/blog/2008/10/13/casey-lefante-on-climbing-to-close-to-the-sun-and-teotihuacan/</link>
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		<title>Nate with a Creative Piece About San Miguel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nate offered this creative piee about San Miguel we thought we&#8217;d share with you&#8230;.
 
Like a Drum
The rainy season started two weeks into June.  The gutters shot water into the cobblestone streets at full force.  At times it could be like a river, water flooding down from the top of the hill and zigzagging its way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unopress.org/blog/2008/10/10/nate-with-a-creative-piece-about-san-miguel/</link>
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		<title>A Few Thoughts and Reactions to San Miguel from Our Fiction Contest Winner, Martha Otis:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was downtown on the night that San Miguel was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  I met up with some other UNO folks and we watched the impromptu festival that erupted in the town square.  The fireworks, set off from the parochia, were loud and colorful and ridiculously dangerous, pieces of burnt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unopress.org/blog/2008/09/19/a-few-thoughts-and-reactions-to-san-miguel-from-our-fiction-contest-winner-martha-otis/</link>
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		<title>Jean Lamberty on Disovering Pozole in San Miguel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post-Graduate Writer and &#8216;08 Participant Writes about discovering new foods in San Miguel:
Pozole

One delicious rite-of-passage in San Miguel is eating pozole. I lost my pozole virginity at La Alborada, an unpretentious restaurant just a block from the jardin. Other food is available, but you want the pozole.
Pozole is a traditional soup made with red chiles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unopress.org/blog/2008/09/02/jean-lamberty-on-disovering-pozole-in-san-miguel/</link>
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		<title>The Frying Pan and The Fire &#8211; Evacuating for Gustav</title>
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So many of you have contacted me, and I want to tell you all the story, but  thought I would put it here for everyone to read.  Information on UNO&#8217;s and New Orleans reopening is in red at the end.  Let me know if you have any questions!!!
First, you may want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unopress.org/blog/2008/09/02/the-frying-pan-and-the-fire-evacuating-for-gustav/</link>
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		<title>Nonfiction Guru Dinty Moore Writes about Immersion and Exploration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following was sent to me by Dinty Moore, three time UNO Creative Nonfiction Workshop leader.  He&#8217;s one of nearest and dearest, and these are some of his words about witing and exploring with UNO.  Also included are some of Dinty&#8217;s majestic photos from our first year in San Miguel:
 
I’ve been fortunate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unopress.org/blog/2008/08/21/nonfiction-guru-dinty-moore-writes-about-immersion-and-exploration/</link>
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		<title>Lupita in San Miguel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am going to be psoting some accounts from different program participants over the next few days.  Here&#8217;s the first from post-grad member and Spanish Conversation teacher Emily Lupita Plum.  Emily talks about her experience reading, and gives some tidbits from our post-grad workshop:
Excerpt from Emily Lupita Plum&#8217;s blog she kept while in San Miguel: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unopress.org/blog/2008/08/19/lupita-in-san-miguel/</link>
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		<title>The Water in Mexico</title>
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Don&#8217;t drink the tap water.  I repeat &#8211; DON&#8217;T DRINK THE TAP WATER.  Perhaps you thought this was a traveler&#8217;s myth.  Its is not.  You should not drink the tap water, nor should you brush your teeth in it, or use it to clean contacts, or anything else.  You can shower in it.  Period.  Bottled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unopress.org/blog/2008/06/09/the-water-in-mexico/</link>
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