Paraguay

At some point, once you have your residency sorted and have received your cedula (identity card) you will need to apply for a Paraguayan Drivers Licence. If you don’t have a…

‘Houston, we have a problem.’…(we have been frozen out of our bank account!) On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 was about 180,000 nautical miles from Earth when a malfunction caused what…

When I talk about ‘family’ I am talking about couples or parents with children. Families come in various forms; the challenges that beset families per se are also common among friends…

We try to provide an insight into what life looks like for us here in Paraguay. We hope to shed light on how we came to choose Paraguay in the first…

I recently had a conversation with an American expat living in Nicaragua that led to some personal revelations about the issue of what we (Brenda and I) identify as. Just to…

In these crazy times just keeping your head straight can be a challenge; however, moving to another country can take those challenges to another level. Here are 6 tips to help…

Several months ago, when we decided that Nicaragua was not where we were going to settle, we did some research and Paraguay popped up as a possible option. Paraguay actually came…

The Process is Being Streamlined Our experience with Paraguay Immigration was administratively manual. Lot’s of forms and old school fingerprints with ink. However in coming months the process is changing. For…

Learning another language is a big step in successfully transitioning to another country. There are many ways to learn a language! Arriving in Guatemala in October 2022 was a culture shock…

We are in the process of looking to buy a property in Paraguay. In due course, we will do a follow-up post to describe how the buying/transfer process works. Of all…

If there’s a place where angels fear to tread when blogging about moving overseas, this is probably that place. Few subjects evoke such emotional responses as ‘What should you bring, and…