Simon.Speaks.Paraguay

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Once I had done the teaching of English in Paraguay, returned to England and then decided I could make a life for myself in Paraguay the next thing I needed was somewhere to live. You cannot spend you whole life in other peoples spare rooms. Having spend 18 months living outside Piribebuy teaching English it made sense to find somewhere in the area that I had got to know and amongst people who had become friends. After many local enquiries it became clear that the best option was that of buying land and then having the house I wanted built upon it. To this end I discovered that a small sugar cane plantation no more than half a mile from the English school was bringing it's owner nothing but losses and that as such he was keen to sell. The plot of land was rather more than I wanted but the price was very affordable. I will leave for another day how the excess land was eventualy dealt with. The main draw of the plot was not its size but the view it offered. The land decende...