so, die zeit ist gekommen, neunzig tage in argentinien sind vergangen. dass heisst: visum erneuern. hierbei gibt es zwei moeglichkeiten: entweder, man geht zum migrationsbuero und zahlt hundert arg. pesos und erhaelt einen neuen stempel (was ja aber viel zu einfach waere), oder man reist in ein anderes land. die entscheidung fiel auf uruguay, weil man dort am schnellsten hin kommt. daher: neun tage freigenommen und mit flo zusammen in den urlaub! muss ja gestehen: ich wusste ueberhaupt nichts ueber uruguay, ausser das montevideo die hauptsstadt ist... demtentsprechend war ich gespannt dort [View Full Entry]

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...and then I was off again to Uruguay - hadn´t intended to go but I´d heard there was a cool hostel in a fairly rustic town called Punto del Daiblo. With Gigi´s suggestion of sleeping tablets to make the journey go quicker I was off on an 11 hour trip. Now there was a little confusion owing to a lack of brain and preparation so I bought a ticket to Montevideo thinking one has to go there to get to Punto DD. As it turns out I´d missed a mail from the hostel giving a totally different route. So when I [View Full Entry]

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So I made it to Uruguay. Staying at Cecilia´s family´s house which is very nice. I´ll probably be lazy with any posts this week though. I will put more pictures up soon. Bought a maté today which we have to condition with old yerba so its usable. I also need to buy a bombilla to drink it with. Hope everyone´s thanksgiving was as awesome as mine. Had a wonderful asado (argentinian bbq) at ed´s which was delicious and fun. lots of wine and amazing stead instead of turkey and stuffing. Definitely a thanksgiving I won´t forget. [View Full Entry]

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Everything was closed. I was frustrated and attempting in my best broken Spanish to ask directions to the Municipal Museum of Fine arts. I wanted to see the works of the great Uruguayan painters but I couldn’t find the museum on a guidebook map. Then again, I was already disappointed that I was clinging to my guidebook on day three of my weekend in Uruguay. Funny how dependent I can become on things when the “plan” starts to falter. “¿Donde esta de Museo Municpal de Bellas Artes?” A portly middle aged woman interrupted my attempts to ask the hi [View Full Entry]

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Sitter pa en buss fran Colonia de Sacramento destination Montevideo. Utetemperatur + 33, busstemperatur +17 jag fruktar for mitt liv temperaturskillnaden kan inte gor mig nog inte gott men kanner mig anda starkt efter en halvdag pa stranden, tupplur pa farjan, Kings of Leon i lurarna (Kalle hur hade du tankt att jag ska fa tid att lyssna pa annat?) och en solotur, mitt resesallskap overgav mig och for at annat hall, i den idylliska smugglarstaden Colonia. Laga stenhus i gralla farger, grova kullerstensgator, kanoner ja ni forstar stamningen. Det rackte med en dag for mig har hade jag tagit det [View Full Entry]

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ATTTRAVERSANDO IL RIO DELLA PLATA Diario di giorni tranquilli Da molti anni non mi chiedo più quale posto è la mia casa ho scoperto che la mia casa è insieme a me dovunque vada cammino senza legami ho solo il vento che mi insegue e il tempo non mi riguarda perché il tempo mi appartiene. Modena City Ramblers - Il fabbricante di sogni E cosi' eccoci giunti al primo spostamento... Prima di iniziare la mia corsa verso Sud, opto per una piu' tranquilla traversata del Rio della Plata, questo fiume-mare (ancora devo ben capirlo...) che d [View Full Entry]

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time for an emergency blog post, i haven't written anything in about a decade to the increased amount of work/studying/paper writing/reading that has been occurring. but this weekend was one for the books, or in this case the blogs, so let's begin. stayed in buenos aires til friday morning, 6 am. didn't want to skip my uba class because we only have one more left...it was pretty useless but we watched apocalypse now and i got some reading done so woohoo. then at 6 am, legit the crack of down I met molly at the buquebus station to get on our [View Full Entry]

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Well, took me a little bit longer, but here´s the next blog-entry. It describes my journey from El Pinar (near Montevideo) along the east-coast of Uruguay (Piriapolis, Minas, Pan de Azucar, Punta del Este, Maldonado, Jose Ignacio, La Paloma, Rocha, Valizas and La Coronilla to finally Chuy (at the border to Brasil)). Today (10.11.) Laura (my CS-Hoster) and I went by bike to the beach. She showed me a beautiful place (as you can see on the pictures) and we spent some time just sitting in the sand, listening to the sea and chatting. After that we visited a friend of [View Full Entry]

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Hola Amigos! We traveled to Uruguay today to visit the Unesco world heritage town of Colonia. Before we could start our adventure we had to get through the ferry boarding system. We went to 5 different desks - one to tell the guy where we wanted to go, one to pay for the ticket, another for them to rip off one portion of our ticket stub, another to go through imigration, and finally another to board the boat. We literally were the last ones to jump on board. Thank goodnesss we made it because we had a wonderful sunny day. Colonia [View Full Entry]

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After a full day on Friday with lessons and planning for the onward travel later this week, Jerry and Nicole (both from Colorado) and I took the late ferry for the one hour ride to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay, just across the Rio de la Plata. Our B&B was just four blocks from the ferry terminal and once we checked in and dropped our bags off, we ventured out for dinner to celebrate Nicole's birthday! The old town of Colonia is a Unesco World Heritage site and with its cobblestone streets, old city wall, old sycamore lined calles, right on [View Full Entry]

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