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growing up in an obstentiously christian country i'm used to the normal christian traditions around the holidays, y'know like santa claus and the easter bunny. easter is a particularly unspectacular holiday - nothing really happens in england except you have more time off work and you eat a lot of chocolate eggs. don't get me wrong, i think more weekends should be like that, but in terms of religious celebrations i can't think of anything that special. certainly not when i compare to different countries, thailand for example, where it becomes more of a party. paraguay seems to be on the interesting end of the scale, or at least tanarandy where i went on good friday. they had a big procession down a street lined with candles and big fire torches. loads of people had little fire torches which they were holding aloft as some dude (i think he was jesus) paraded down the road. loads of paraguayans travelled to this small village and it really felt like a celebration. not that i knew what they were celebrating as it was all in spanish and guarani, but everyone seemed to have fun.

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