Blogs from Punta del Este, East, Uruguay, South America - page 2

So finally in the Spanish speaking world again! Feels nice to have an element of control over understanding people yet strangely feels like just being in Spain (except with a much harder variety of spanish to capture). Our bus journey in total was around 20 hours, from Florianopolis to Porto alegre in Brazil then down the coast to the Eastern tip of Uruguay. Surprisingly the bus journey was fine, the Uruguay bus was amazing, we didnt know you got fed on it, or definately wouldnt have spent our last 50 reals on a Frango meal (chicken, but we have been caling it Frango as its much catchier). We ended up getting served yet another Frango! Uruguay has signalled the start of a "detox" for me, looking back over the last weeek or so in Brazil we ... read more

hola a todos! me parece que hace mucho tiempo que no había escrito nada en mi travelblog... es wär also weder mol ziit de upzdate! es send weder 2 wocge vergange ond ech ben jetzt scho die 5ti woche do! es gfallt mer scho no do, aber ech well trotzdem wäg do, ab uf equador, ech glaub sreisefieber het mi e chli packt letscht wochenend! abr vellecht setti vo vore afange, schösch chont mer jo gar ned noche! ide schuel machi wiiterhin fortschrett. aber lang nömme so wie am afang. es werd halt alles vell komplexer, und ech ben vo tag zo tag weniger ufnahmefähig! keis wonder wenn jede tag schuel hesch. ech han drom mol met em direktor do gredt öb mer echt stonde chönted reduziere... das esch möglech gsi idem dass ech all mini ... read more

An "Australian Surf Instructor" in Uruguay. Something I never thought I would do/be/become... This is going to be a good conversation starter when I start going for job interviews in Australia again. So the summer in Punta del Este has come to an end and therefore so has my work as a surf instructor. I decided to keep a small diary of my experience over the time, giving you the following as a little summary and extract of some of the thoughts, feelings & struggles I faced whilst teaching surf over the past 6 weeks. Never-the-less, it was a fun experience and will be interesting to elaborate on in an interview some day! WEEK #1 Challenges faced: the constant feeling of jet-lag whilst trying to bring my body clock back into sync with daylight hours. Emotionally ... read more

Back in Asia we heard that South America is a great place for CouchSurfers. We did not participate much in CS in Asia but decided to give it a go in here. We already stayed with Leandro in Buenos and now came the time to try some of the Uruguayan hospitality. We took a bus from Montevideo to Maldonado (100UR$/10$ each) near Punta Del Este to meet our hosts – Lau and Max. We could not believe how high the standard of Uruguayan buses was. Not only they have brand new flotas but also all of them have Wi-Fi on board. Shame on you, bus companies in Europe!!! We got there around 8 pm and were a little bit skeptical about walking 8 blocks to the main plaza with all of our stuff. As we learnt ... read more

Hello from Punta del Este in Uruguay! Have just finished a day of beaches and walking around this resort town, although we were told we would see ferraris on the streets here the best we have seen is a porsch, and even that was a 4WD. This seems to be the richest place in Uruguay and very different from Montevideo. For lunch we went to the port here and ordered fresh seafood in the market and had it cooked up on the spot. Unfortunately did not do currency conversions well and failed to realise it was about $100 US for our lunch, not bad overall, but up there for south american prices. Also saw a sea lion fend off two street dogs and an intruiging battle - we were on the sea lions side. before montevideo ... read more