Blogs from District of Montevideo, Uruguay, South America - page 31

27th December Definitely the most laid back capital that i had encountered in South America. checked into ALbergue Juvenil in the morning to catch up with Elliot and Obere. and after a few hours of sightseeing, i was ready to leave that evening. Admittedly, i didnt give Montovideo much of a chance. it was nice to see, but not much to do. though the weekends are meant to be more happening. and walking around the streets, Uruguay definitely was blessed with some of the more beautiful women in South America!... read more

More site seeing, souvenir shopping, markets, beach and family time... Jos and I have hit the beach as often as possible, we are looking very brown!!!! My lovely cousin passed on some threatre tickets to a ballet production of Swan Lake at the uruguayan Opera House...An unforgettable night once AGAIN! Christmas has come and gone with a very emotional time for all of us , who knows when I´ll spend christmas in Uruguay again... Jos went off with all the fire works at midnight, he stocked up before hand. By midnight the whole city goes to the streets and lets off their fire works!! The noise and colours of it all, we´ll never forget! Then it was on to eating traditional uruguayan bbq meal ´asado´ and more traditional drinks. By 5am it was all over, we ... read more

L'Uruguay a deux choses en commun avec la planète Uranus: 1)On peut malheureusement faire plein de jeux de mots poches avec son nom. 2)Demandez à n'importe qui de les situer sur une carte et la plupart vont échouer lamentablement. Voulant quand même faire partie des 13 touristes qui visitent ce merveilleux pays annuellement, nous avons profité des dernier jours pour aller y faire un petit tour. Un petit tour de quatre jours pour être exact, qui nous a permis de pas mal tout voir ce que le pays a à offrir. Même s'il est méconnu, l'Uruguay est théoriquement le pays le plus riche d'Amérique du Sud (PIB par habitant). On le considérait autrefois comme la Suisse du continent. Par contre, les crises économiques des dernières années l'ont beaucoup appauvri comme l'Argentine. Avant cela, on a passé ... read more

Sorry we've been scarce for a few days. Since we've last written we spent a little more time in Buenos Aires and then made way across the pond to Montevideo, Uruguay via a big water taxi called the BuqueBus. Crappy wifi reception at the Radisson prevented us from being able to write any new blog entries or check email for two days. Now we're back at robert's place in BA, with some decent internet access. As far as Montevideo goes, it's a heck of a lot smaller than BA. There's a lot less traffic and everyone seems to be moving at a much slower pace. For example one of the first things we noticed here was that when attempting to cross the street on foot, cars actually stopped for you. Even when there wasn't a stop ... read more

After a pretty long trip all the way from Spain...we made it safe and sound back to my lovely country!!! Family was of course waiting for us with open arms..it was crazy to find my parents there as we've left them in Sydney : ) Very hot start to our stay in South America as we walked out of the airport and it was BOILING!! Got to my brothers place and that was it ...a marathon of talking for hours!!! Catching up and laughing away about everything.... It didn´t stop early as the rest of my family arrived in the evening for more catching up and of course drinking and eating!! Following day up early and off 5 hours north to my mum's birth place "Paysandu" to see the birthday girl...my beautiful grandma turning a big ... read more