Asunción, the capital of the nation

Asunción, the capital of the nation

Sitting on the east bank of the Rio Paraguay stands Asunción, the capital of Paraguay and by far it’s largest city. The city was founded in 1537 when a more peaceful unriver sight was saught following native attacks on the recently founded Buenos Aires....

Moving to Paraguay from England

By mid 2004 the teaching project had come to an end and after a bit of sightseeing around South America I headed back to England. There was not much of a plan as to what to do next other than not returning to the bank. Back in England it was good to catch up with all...

Teaching in Paraguay

Once I had arrived in Paraguay I could get to grips with what I had come here to do, teaching children English. From the capital once everyone had caught their breaths we relocated 80km into the interior where the project was to be set up. The chosen location was the...

How I came to Paraguay

Relocating from England to Paraguay is probably neither the most common nor obvious way of moving abroad so it would help if I explained a little of how it came about. Back in the later part of the last century there I was filling the days working in an English bank....

A little of the history of Paraguay

Rather than an indepth history lesson this will be for now a quick overview of the history of Paraguay. In Pre Columbian times Paraguay was in common with Brazil and other forested areas of South America thinly populated with by various indgenous groups living the...