Last summer Barbara Speck took a literary tour to Galicia, Spain, where she stayed out until 3 a.m. drinking wine and dancing to rock music with her fellow readers at an outdoor festival.

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Galicia in north-west Spain, which is similarly rainy, has been filled with pine and eucalyptus trees.

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Catalonia's nearby regions, the Basque country, and Galicia in the Northwest of Spain also have self-governance mandates under the Spanish Constitution of 1978.

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And it's also bad just across the border in Spain, in Galicia and Andalusia, two bordering regions where another 270, 000 acres have been destroyed.

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