A day trip to Colonia Independencia today: a 'village' (more a very scattered collection of farmsteads) famous for its German population. They make wine and beer and have an Oktoberfest, but I was too late for that. There isn't really a lot to see, but it was fun to visit a Paraguayan country community, even if the roads were rather busy (pic).
Evidently they don't need, or perhaps have, lawnmowers here to keep the village green trim... (pic)
...or the roundabouts (pic).
Maybe they don't have washing machines, either (pic). They had countless bars and restaurants, though.
Back in the big city of Villarrica, in comparison, it was all action (pic): playing draughts with bottletops. It's been a lovely couple of days chilling out in quiet, friendly, tourist-free bits of the country, and practising my Spanish. I can say 'two empanadas and a bottle of Brahma please' in a perfect central-Paraguayan accent now.
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