The Fast and the Furious: Fiesta, Blockades and all things retro.

So it turns out in Bolivia they celebrate A LOT! pretty much any reason to celebrate and they will do it!
They have the usual of mother´s day etc but also friendship days, boyfriend/ girlfriend days, women´s days and other random things like celebrating the changing of the seasons! So 21 September marks the beginning of Spring and so it´s time to celebrate at school.

complete with a brithday wish.

 But also they have parties in squares and night time it can turn into anything. It´s hard to get over how varied the place can be. In the day time the squares and plazas are very peaceful and beautiful places to sit and be surrounded by the fountains and beautiful greenery but by night they turn into busy market places and have random things happening such like this:

VW Camper Van with some ghetto stylee!

 








Also they like to protest which is a good thing in some ways but it means that every few weeks there is some sort of strike which normally means the transport system shuts down for part or all the day and means people dont go to work (!)so we end up having random days where we have time to enjoy the sunshine!

And if you´ve ever wondered where all the VW Beetles disappeared to ... they love them out here!