Blogs from Paraguay, South America - page 30

Can´t believe it´s over a week since I last posted, time just seems to be flying past! Also wrote almost a whole blog yesterday then the computer decided to do its good deed for the day and switch itself OFF, so apologies if i sound a bitty moody!! Also, all of a sudden i woke up this morning with a friggin cold, suppose it´s my fault tho for running around in the rain on friday night - honestly never thought I´d be so happy at the sight of rain!!!! Keep meaning to write about this but always forget - a few weeks ago we came across a real life CAVEMAN honestly!! The 3 of us were sitting perfectly innocently outside Casa Cuna, at the end of lunchtime as we always do, when this black man stormed ... read more

In typical South American fashion the day after we got the internet all up and working in our house, they cut it off because we hadn´t paid this month/week/moment they decided we chould have. Here there´s no such thing as bank transfers or standing orders and for some reason I really don´t understand, Claire has to go to the capital to pay! So no internet again untill Tuesday. *sigh* It´s a crazy system where they don´t tell you you need to pay, they just cut it off. Ah well, such is life! This week has been pretty similar to last. I´m slowly talking to more people, mostly of the age of 5. They don´t mind so much that I make mistakes. Last night I went for dinner with the British guy I met at the airport ... read more

So here it is folks, the first proper blog from Paraguay. I appologise for how long it's taken me, but that is because my computer is so very British that it decided it couldn't talk to the South American internet system, presumeably because it's in Spanish, and being British, my laptop only speaks English. So I've had to wait for a wireless router to arrive and be installed. I could have used the internet cafes, but they're sooooo slow, and also I've been writing this blog in notepad on my laptop since I arrived and couldn't be bothered to write it all again on another computer. But it's all good now, as the wireless router arrived the other day, and was installed this morning. Hoorah. Before I say anything else I have to say that it ... read more

Hey folks! Ive eventually managed to get a few photos on the computer so i´ll try and include them in this blog... Wow, this week has just passed sooo quickly, last week was MEGA slow but this week has just gone whoosh! It seems like there´s getting less and less news as i get used to living here, but dont worry im sure i can manage my usual essay lol! What i still cant get used to is getting stared at constantly, no matter what you´re doing, what you´re wearing, where you are or who you´re with, it´s so weird!! Don´t think im ever gonna get used to being the freak in town, dont know how u do it fiona!!! :P the funniest thing happened the other day, i was taking the long way home so ... read more

I appologise for my almost complete radio silence. I´ve been having internet problems, as my laptop won´t connect and the internet cafes here are very slow and very unreliable. We´ve ordered a wireless router which should hopefully arrive tomorrow and should hopefully mean that I can then have the internet in my house and then properly update this blog. I´ve been writing a massive blog in notepad on my laptop and can´t be bothered to write it all again on an internet cafe plooter, so hopefully you can wait. So yes, just to say I´m alive, all my luggage arrived with me, it´s very very hot here and sort of in the words of Hellogoodbye, I miss you (all) quite terribly!... read more

ITA - Crociera sul Río Paraguay Parte I Da Encarnación, circa sedici ore di autobus mi portano a Concepción, piccola città del nord del Paraguay sul omonimo fiume. Un'unica strada asfaltata attraversa il centro fino al porto, le altre strade sono di terra e frequentate più da cavalli e moto che da automobili. La città dipende ancora molto dal fiume per le comunicazioni e gli scambi con le altre città paraguayane. Approfitto quindi dell'occasione per fare una mini-crociera di 5 giorni, a bordo della barca "Aquidaban", mercato ambulante che risale il fiume, portando in ogni porto mercanzie, persone, e ogni tanto anche qualche turista smarrito.. Il primo impatto, salendo sulla barca, è sconcertante: la barca è già stracolma di cibarie, bagagli e persone, e non vedo dove potrò appoggiare lo zaino, e ancora meno trovare un ... read more

ITA - Jesús, Trinidad Da Encarnación, prendo un autobus fino a Trinidad, dopo di che dovrei proseguire per Jesús, l'altro sito di rovine di missioni gesuite, patrimonio dell'Unesco cosí come quelle dal lato argentino. Mi trovo a una stazione di benzina, all'uscita da Trinidad, intorno a me, oltre la strada in cattivo stato che porta a Jesús, poche case, e tanta foresta.. ma niente autobus la domenica, e sono 15km che con il sole che è venuto fuori sono troppi da fare a piedi.. Per fortuna, con un sorriso mi viene offerto tereré, versione fredda del mate, fatto con la stessa erba, e in cambio di due litri di benzina un ragazzo 17enne mi porta in moto fino alle rovine che, cogliendo l'occasione, visita pure lui.. Al contrario di quello che avevo sentito e letto, e ... read more

WELL i sooo dunno where to start, too much has happened and i think its gone out the other ear already! Ok, so on Tuesday night, Kathy and Gilly told us they were taking us to a barbeque. Eh, this wasn´t just any old barbeque. We got to this restaurant, had to be the poshest thing ive seen so far in Paraguay, it was posh even by British standards! It was sort of like a buffet, (mum etc - like at the radisson baypoint except much bigger) with lots of salady stuff with fancy names but was basically just potato salad and sweetcorn. The waiters, dressed like penguins, come round all the tables with heaps of different kinds of meat and carve it there and then like at a carvery, weird! Also lots of pasta dishes, ... read more

Hey folks, I know I only wrote yesterday but we have free internet in the hotel that we´re staying in till tomorrow so I´m just making the most of it!! Well today´s been the first chance we´ve got out and about in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. It´s soooo different from Aberdeen, the whole day I´ve been trying to take it all in to tell everyone about but I know fine il forget half of it!! I´ll start with food, just cos my dad´s convinced im gonna starve!! yesterday night we went to a local restaurant, where i was MEGA brave and actually tried something local, honest dad!! can´t remember what it was called but it was some kind of deep fried steak thing with hammy stuff and tomatoish sauce, not really a steak kinda girl ... read more