\nOn Monday night, I had the pleasure of hosting a visiting economist from the UK Intellectual Property Office, Ben:
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\nBen’s delightful wife Trish had also come along for the trip:
\n![\"_1040339\"](\"uploads\/2011\/19alt1.jpg\")
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\nA busker outside O’Hara bar on Esplanada de Espa\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b1a, with some local fauna listening:
\n![\"_1040335\"](\"uploads\/2011\/19alt2.jpg\")
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\nThursday night we had the monthly wine tasting at the office, this time of Austrian wines:
\n![\"IGP0805\"](\"uploads\/2011\/19alt3.jpg\")
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\nPhilippe is in charge of our food service, and this evening he was the head sommelier as well. It was funny to listen to a French guy trying to pronounce Austrian place names and names of grapes, such as Blauburgunder etc:
\n![\"IGP0809\"](\"uploads\/2011\/19alt4.jpg\")
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\nTwo of my friends and colleagues in conversation. They are Polish and Lithuanian, respectively, so of course they converse in English :-):
\n![\"IGP0807\"](\"uploads\/2011\/19alt5.jpg\")
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\nAnd this pretty face belongs to a colleague from the Czech Republic who sat across from me at the wine tasting:
\n![\"IGP0817\"](\"uploads\/2011\/19alt6.jpg\")
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\nFriday evening my wife and I walked to the nearby Lizarran for tapas. I liked this scene because the guy looks as if he is scared by the plate being offered to him (the system at Lizarran is that the waiters bring around plates of tapas and you just take what you want and pay accordingly):
\n![\"_1040352\"](\"uploads\/2011\/19alt7.jpg\")
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\nMy wife’s favourite tapa, a spinach croquet:
\n![\"_1040351\"](\"uploads\/2011\/19alt8.jpg\")
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\nFinally, a picture taken just a few hours before posting this PAW, in the lounge at Barcelona airport while waiting for my flight to Frankfurt:
\n![\"IGP818\"](\"uploads\/2011\/19alt9.jpg\")
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