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		<title>I Really Do Live In Brussels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got into this habit of writing a special post whenever I moved to a new city. Manchester, Leiden, Brussels: they are all still on this blog. Of course, I&#8217;ll almost certainly live in other cities over the course of the rest of my life, however long that may be. But I&#8217;ve really started to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialcontract.org.uk/i-really-do-live-in-brussels</link>
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		<title>Geocaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was bored, the weather was good, my bicycle beckoned, and my phone has GPS&#8230; this was the chain of causes for my attempt at geocaching today, and I&#8217;m very glad that all these things came together. Since I&#8217;m probably not best placed to try to explain something I&#8217;ve only just tried, I&#8217;ll let YouTube [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialcontract.org.uk/geocaching</link>
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		<title>België</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have nothing against Mobistar, but I have had interactions with companies here in Belgium which rise to this level of frustration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxXlDyTD7wo After it though, I was left thinking, &#8220;poor Mathieu!&#8221;. He deserved the FNAC voucher!]]></description>
		<link>http://socialcontract.org.uk/belgie</link>
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		<title>A New Tendency in Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I tweeted my despair at the entrance to the Waterstone’s best-seller list of a book tie-in to the Compare the Market adverts which have been airing on British TV lately. I can understand the entertainment value of books written to tie into actual programmes or films—I’m not a snob in this regard, such books [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialcontract.org.uk/a-new-tendency-in-art</link>
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		<title>Keeping Up Appearances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ask for forgiveness from any Belgians who may happen to read this post, but as I&#8217;ve been enjoying the last few days of my summer holiday, wandering around Brussels, enjoying discovering where to buy the UK edition of The Guardian (as opposed to the overpriced and under-filled international edition), attempting, thus far unsuccessfully to find beer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialcontract.org.uk/keeping-up-appearances</link>
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		<title>Settling At Last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really never thought that finding somewhere to live would be as hard as it has been, but there you go, that&#8217;s life. Thankfully I&#8217;ll be moving into an apartment right in the centre of Brussels tomorrow, with the chance to unpack all my boxes of stuff, and get settled down for a few months. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialcontract.org.uk/settling-at-last</link>
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		<title>I Live In Br&#8230; oh this is getting old now!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a long time—an inexcusably long time—it has been since I last posted something on here. I suppose I should write another of those, &#8220;I Live In &#8230;&#8221; posts, since I managed to add a fourth entry to the list of countries I&#8217;ve lived in, with a move to Brussels last week. I managed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialcontract.org.uk/i-live-in-br-oh-this-is-getting-old-now</link>
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		<title>Eurovision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night was of course the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, and naturally, I was in front of the telly for the whole thing. This time though, I had my first truly international experience of the show, watching with friends from Lithuania, Romania, and Turkey in a hall of residence for international students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialcontract.org.uk/eurovision</link>
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		<title>New Year Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A complete version of this post is available on The Thursday Briefing, including exciting economic indicators. I guess this is how traditions are established: one is a one-off, two is a repeat, but more than three is a tradition. So, welcome to my fourth annual New Year post. I think it was at the start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialcontract.org.uk/new-year-post</link>
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		<title>Sinterklaas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a foreigner in the Netherlands at this time of year is great; not only can I celebrate my own Christmas and winter traditions, I can also join in with the Dutch Sinterklaas festival. My coursemates had, what I think is termed, a Sinterklaasavond last night, from which I received a teapot and a lovely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialcontract.org.uk/sinterklaas</link>
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