Porto Tumbo

Antarctic Adventure

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January 22nd 2012
LAST SEA DAY The day is muggy and overcast with intermittent showers. That puts paid to my plan of sitting on deck for a tan. Breakfast service in the main dining room was appalling. We ordered at 9:10 and left at 9:45 with five of the six of us not served. No excuse for that. Stopped in at the disembarkation talk just in time for the crew to take their bows and to hear “Love in Any Language ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

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A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more