Hotel Boggiani II Asuncion

... about why they don't want to do something, because they'll just deny that they ever said they didn't want to. It can be quite frustrating. But in any case, I'll try to get some pictures uploaded so you all can see what I have been working on.<br><br>My garden is going well, and I now have tomatoes, onions, broccoli, and acelga (which I think we call Swiss chard) planted, and I hope to put in spinach and maybe some ...

... cars here, and the undisputed king of the road is Mercedes. Most, if not all, of the buses and trucks here are very old Mercedes models, and nearly half of all the cars on the road are Mercedes models from any of the last fifty years. One of the things I really like about developing countries is that you see cars that you never saw in real life before or never even knew existed in the past. <br>- Nearly all the cars have their windows tinted ...

... 20 mins of being told what we could have seen we eventually got off and went for egg and chips and beer for lunch where I had to purchase a new t shirt to leave me some dignity. Having not really dried off at all we went on an eco boat tour where we spotted toucans and cayman crocodiles in the wild, fierce close up and everything (photos should be on facebook soon as I am actually home now but don&#8217;t be letting on). Three of the separatists were late getting back ...

Hi All,<br><br>Well the 20 hour bus journey from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu ended up being more pleasurable than anything! Argentinian coaches are suprisingly luxurious, with chairs that may as well have been beds and regular meals!<br>The small town was everything you would expect of a small Latin American town, it was simply wonderful. That evening we went to where the Rio (river) Parana meets the Rio Iguazu ...

It´s been a busy week, and unfortunately i am pressed for time, so I will try to write what I can. This weekend was a pretty fun weekend. My host father is coach of the local soccer team, and they are building a new field in the pasture by our house. There is a big scandal in town because the guy who has rented the land for the field for the last 23 years has decided not to rent to them again this year. It's all anyone was able to talk about for while, that and the ...

... a cheap but good place to eat so we went to investigate. We found that it was in fact cheap and was run by a multilingual guy who was very friendly. The waiters were dressed in tuxes and kept bringing us free samples of Paraguayan food. It was wicked. We had a lovely meal there. The bus ride back to the main bus station drove us through some really smart areas of town. Asuncion definitely has a lot to offer if it was cleaned up just a little bit.

... so self-congratulatory pats on the back are probably not in order. But still the analogy holds. South America is the one continent that has yet to be 'done', or overdone that is, of those that are 'doable' of course, so that rules out Antarctica, and Australia is a single country no bigger than mainland US, so that doesn't really count. But South America is big and beautiful and rich in resources and culture(s), and yet is still relatively under ...

... late morning to Resistencia in Argentina, yet again a 6 hours + journey. Bought my ticket with the bus company "El Pulqui" and at 11.30 headed southwards towards the Paraguayan / Argentinean border. In an hour we where there, and like most of the border crossing so far, everything went OK. Looking back i´m glad I short stopped in Paraguay as so many visitors to South America tend to by ...

It's crunch time...4 months and a few days to go and we are busy, busy, busy. No really juicy news to report...things have settled down after the little drama we had in Caazapa'mi and the community as a whole landed firmly on our side. The elementary school principal is visibly awkward at the school and community functions, but for our part we are treating him as if nothing ever happened and are as friendly as can be. I just turned in a grant application to take a ...

... anywhere on the River would be difficult, if not impossible to do. I spent way too much time here in Ascuncion, waiting around for my Bolivian visa. The guy at the consulate was very demanding, and I had to return to their office 4 times. He even made me go to Interpol and get a release from them to verify that I was not a terrorist! So, after about 2 1/2 weeks, I had my letter from the consulate, and I was ...