The Blog Returns!!! Paddy's Day
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 peak hour traffic. I have to say it was incredibly satisfying to be able to bring the traffic to a complete standstill as we marched onwards, though possibly not the most diplomatic of moves from an international relations viewpoint. But i'm sure the hooting of horns was in support of good old San Patricio!
There was even some irish dancing - by argentines! - when we got to the plaza. Apparently innocent young argentines looking for a good catholic education in BA get a sprinkling of irish with the schooling. A piper and San Patricio gave a performance too. And i had a close encounter with San Patricio's sparkly green wand.
Afterwards everyone headed to the street with all the Irish pubs. It too was closed to traffic - to give us all enough room to queue on the street to get into the pubs. That was when we decided to abandon tradition and headed to a non-irish pub that didn't have a queue outside but did have one litre plastic glasses full of beer that required all two of my little hands to control.
And that was Paddy's Day. Will add more photos and news in the next days, including the green beer in the Irish pub in Montevideo.
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 peak hour traffic. I have to say it was incredibly satisfying to be able to bring the traffic to a complete standstill as we marched onwards, though possibly not the most diplomatic of moves from an international relations viewpoint. But i'm sure the hooting of horns was in support of good old San Patricio!
There was even some irish dancing - by argentines! - when we got to the plaza. Apparently innocent young argentines looking for a good catholic education in BA get a sprinkling of irish with the schooling. A piper and San Patricio gave a performance too. And i had a close encounter with San Patricio's sparkly green wand.
Afterwards everyone headed to the street with all the Irish pubs. It too was closed to traffic - to give us all enough room to queue on the street to get into the pubs. That was when we decided to abandon tradition and headed to a non-irish pub that didn't have a queue outside but did have one litre plastic glasses full of beer that required all two of my little hands to control.
And that was Paddy's Day. Will add more photos and news in the next days, including the green beer in the Irish pub in Montevideo.
Good to hear from you! I was wondering if you two had been kidnapped. Glad you still got a Paddy's Day Parade.
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