Blogs from Montevideo, District of Montevideo, Uruguay, South America - page 27

Hola! Appologies for the lack of blog, once again! Well I think I last left you guys in New Zealand. We flew out of the big city that is Auckland nearly one month ago now . Our last few days were spent trying to sell our beloved car. Apparently though, most backpakers are richer than us and want a car that is newer than our 1984 Mitsibushi Mirage! We evenb tried to give it away at our hostel but nobody wanted it! The morning before our flight out, a lovely man saw the car for it´s true worth and bought it from us for $400 NZ, despite the fact the window would not open! The flight was long and my video didn´t work so I had to watch the one next to me!! I think we ... read more

Gestern haben wir uns Montevideo angeguckt. Haben so eine City Tour mitgemacht. War eine schlechte Idee von mir, da wir ueber 3 Stunden in einem Minibus gesessen haben und 4 mal angehalten haben um Fotos zu machen und bei jedem Stop hatten wir nur 5 minuten Zeit. Kam wir mir vor wie ein Japaner. Foto und schnell wieder in den Bus. Unsere Tour Guide konnte leider nicht so gut englisch. Hatte es zum ersten Mal auf englisch gemacht, wie sie es mir hinterher verraten hat. Dementsprechend kriegte ich (war die einzige im Bus, die kein spanisch konnte ) weniger Informationen, wie "In dieser Strasse sind viele Haeuser", "auf der rechten Seite sehen Sie einen Park", "auf der linken Seite ist das Meer und auf der rechten sind Gebaeude", "die Strasse ist sehr wichtig". Sie hat ... read more

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... though not necessarily in that order. I had really only come to Montevideo to duck into the Brazilian consultate to arrange my visa, but I foolishly hadn't factored in the 'fatneck time premium' one must consider when dealing with bureaucratic pencil pushers and paper shufflers. Thankfully, the visa processing time was only two working days, and not the 'four to six weeks' of the good old Tax Office. There was little to remark of my time in the city, except for the events of one day which started off slow but turned out noteworthy, for good and bad reasons. The city itself is pretty small, so I set off on a walking tour to take in the sights, if there indeed were any ... read more

Hey all. Today was my first day in Uruguay.... We left Buenos Aires at around 7 on a boat to Colonia Del Sacramento...its basically an old Portugese fort... which is all touristy now... we walked around for a little bit... its really small. I got a lot of good pictures, the buildings were very very old. We stopped for lunch at another over priced place, at the very end of lunch it started pissing rain and the wind was blowing like crazy. We had originally planned to stay for 6 hours or so but after 2 we had pretty much seen it all and we decided to get the bus early to Montevideo. And thats where I am at now... this new hostel makes my old one look like the Ritz, a total over about ... read more

Some claimed that Montevideo is the Latin American city with the highest quality of life. While the guidebook claimed : "Montevideo is probably South America's most laid-back capital." I think by saying that Montevideo is "laid-back' it meant dull. The capital city of Uruguay is small with a population of not more than 1.4 million, many of them are students and young workers, but this place is far from the excitement that Buenos Aires has to offer. It may be laid-back but the bottomline is there was simply not much going on. The city was founded by Portuguese and the Spanish later ruled the area. I gather many of the European forces then were hoping to control this area as Montevideo sits right at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata which flows to ... read more