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The Blog Returns!!! Paddy's Day

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Kara says: hola chicos, we're back. So there you go, only takes a month to fix a dodgy server in BA. Still here, still alive, still not fluent in Spanish but have graduated (or just stopped going)from school and are now living the life of a pair of aimless bums. We've had a couple of trips out of town - to Uruguay again and down the coast in Argentina. Will put photos and gossip up over the next few days but just going to start with some Paddy's Day photos. How to have the first ever Paddy's Day Parade in Buenos Aires: Step one: announce the starting time and place in the paper to gather a crowd of "spectators". Step two: get yourself a San Patricio - quality evidently unimportant. Step three: have a man with a megaphone announce th at everyone's to follow him and San Patricio down the street. Magic! You have yourself a parade. Then, just to make it more exciting, only close the street to traffic for part of the parade so you can have parade vs. head on p