Ernest Hemingway said that Paris is "a movable feast."
Kurt Vonnuget called New York City "Skyscaper National Park."
Benjamin Disraeli named London "a modern Babylon."
Nobody says anything about Asuncion.
But I will say this: As I slept among the homeless on the concrete floor of the Santa Cruz bus terminal, stranded in the middle of the night after fourteen hours behind a very civilly disobedient roadblock, I dreamt longingly of Asuncion.
It is not exactly a glamorous cosmopolitan hub, blazing a trail through world society, but the weather is nice and the people are kind and I have a bed here.
It is a city of quiet familiarity. The warm streets are dotted with colonial houses, friendly drunks and mobile ice cream salesmen. On hot days men sell cold soda for twenty cents on city buses.
So, in an effort to remedy the embarrassing lack of quotations about this fair city I'm trying to spread this one around -
"Asuncion - It may not have the Louvre, but at least it's not full of Frenchman."
Join me next Saturday for "My seductive, masculine power over women translates beautifully into Spanish."
Kurt Vonnuget called New York City "Skyscaper National Park."
Benjamin Disraeli named London "a modern Babylon."
Nobody says anything about Asuncion.
But I will say this: As I slept among the homeless on the concrete floor of the Santa Cruz bus terminal, stranded in the middle of the night after fourteen hours behind a very civilly disobedient roadblock, I dreamt longingly of Asuncion.
It is not exactly a glamorous cosmopolitan hub, blazing a trail through world society, but the weather is nice and the people are kind and I have a bed here.
It is a city of quiet familiarity. The warm streets are dotted with colonial houses, friendly drunks and mobile ice cream salesmen. On hot days men sell cold soda for twenty cents on city buses.
So, in an effort to remedy the embarrassing lack of quotations about this fair city I'm trying to spread this one around -
"Asuncion - It may not have the Louvre, but at least it's not full of Frenchman."
Join me next Saturday for "My seductive, masculine power over women translates beautifully into Spanish."
I've enjoyed reading your blog - found it via my Google-Paraguay alerts. Why are you in Asunción? For how long? You're from Seattle, right? I'm in Beaverton, OR - but will be in Asunción in a little over 6 weeks. My daughter & I will be visiting my AFS host family (I was an exchange student in 1979.)
ReplyDeleteSo - that's probably way more info from someone you don't know - but anyway - like your blog. More photos and food!