Kara says: Valparaiso - a port town near Santiago with little colourful houses climbing up the hills behind the bay. Thoughtfully, they have provided funiculars around town to help you up the hills. Photo of me enjoying the very healthy Chorrillana - a pile of chips, fried onions with egg, meat, melted cheese and whatever else they feel like piling on top. Also photo of a street and a market spilling out onto the street. We wandered around and did mostly nothing. The Amazing Race came to town - we spent a whole lunchtime in a plaza waiting for the couples to come running by chased by their out of breath cameraman and soundman. It was funny (in a slightly cruel way) to see the teams that went down streets that none of the others had chosen. Losers. How we laughed as we sipped our beers. We headed to the beach, see karl posing, and down a very spectacular coast to see one of Pablo Neruda's (Chilean diplomat, poet and Nobel Prize winner) houses. Have picked out a nice little second ho...
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...
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