by Simon | Aug 12, 2021 | Biography
It is now almost 20 years since I arrived in Paraguay for the first time. Then I had left behind a job working in a bank in England. Ahead lay a teaching project in the Paraguayan countryside. The year was 2002. By then much of the back office work in the bank had...
by Simon | Aug 3, 2021 | Biography
Paraguay has been my home now for nearly twenty years. Before that England was where I call home. More precisely the town of Dunstable. There I grew up, went to school and then to work. Dunstable is an average sized market town in Southern England. It is located in...
by Simon | Jul 14, 2021 | Biography
It had been quite a while since I last visited Asuncion. 18 months or more. The last time I was there was upon my return from England after my last visit. A few months after that Covid arrived and restrictions were put in place. Even through those have on the whole...
by Simon | Jun 16, 2021 | Biography
The flight from England to Paraguay is something I have taken numerous times over the years. And equally often in the opposite direction. These were of course all pre COVID and so everything mentioned in this article refers to pre pandemic times. It may be a little...
by Simon | Jun 5, 2021 | Biography
The replacing of the posts that bring electricity up from the street to my house was a job that had needed doing for a while. My house is 100 metres from the street and needs a row of posts to carry the cables. The electric company is responsible for everything street...
by Simon | May 15, 2021 | Biography
The largest religious festival is the of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It is held in Caacupe where the Virgin of Caacupe is kept. The festival takes place every year on the 8th December. Everyone in Paraguay who is able travels there for the celebration....
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