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Dinner at Cafe Expreso - I opted for the Chivito de la Casa II - filled with beef, ham, bacon, egg, cheese, fried onions, lettuce, and tomato. My only complaint - the friggin' olives! They didn't even mention them in the menu, as they seem to be standard items that are included with everything. Had I known, I would've have asked that they throw my olives in the trash, where they belong! The chivito was messy, but delicious.
Losing 10 lbs in 10 days: The backpacker's diet
January 15th 2009 Geo: -34.4771, -57.8386Breakfast - they certainly serve some putrid coffee here, a cortado out of a machine. Hard little bite-sized buns, ham, cheese, butter, jam, Tang ... nothing special, but enough to get you going for the day. The hotel does a pretty bad job of keeping up with the breakfast eaters, because they are seemingly always out of something, and you end up waiting for more cheese,
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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 
