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So this is our 2.5 year trip!! One year on the long and bumpy road of South and Central America. Our second year started off with 12 weeks in New Zealand, then we headed to Australia! Eagerly clutching our working holiday visas we stayed in Australia for one year for work and travel. The last leg of our 30-month trip was 3.5 months in SE Asia. (We are home now and oh how we miss travelling!)

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Semana Santa

April 7, 2007

Easter weekend! Or as they call it in Latin America - Semana Santa. Basically they really go for the religious thing here, neing Catholics but we just don`t understand why that means no chocolate. Nope, not a single over-priced, brightly coloured and tinfoiled easter egg in sight.

So instead of getting a buzz from too much Cadburys, we watched the continual parades through the streets of Xela, with what must have been the entire population of the city lining the streets to watch the processions. Was very good and very different but I have to admit, a Cadbury`s egg would be just wonderful. The usual chocolate here is just crap. And as for that American stuff they import... well we would rather go without.