Blogs from Uruguay, South America - page 90

Hello from Uruguay, hello from Montevideo. Another quick update. Sorry for falling behind again. Combo of internet access difficulties and sheer laziness! OK...so W arrived. Together (YAY) we tooled around Buenos Aires. What a great town! Visited markets, neighbourhoods, saw Evita's tomb and enjoyed several lovely cafe's and restaurants...YAY (W wants to add we went to 'Fangio's favourite cafe'). So here we are in Montevideo. Arrived yesterday. Plenty of time to see the town. New and old sites. Great architecture, a real sense of history. The people are very cool too...all walking around with the mate tea 'bombs' and thermos...at least I assume that it's tea! Today we visited historic town of Colonia. Which over the years has been an important Portuguese, Spanish, Argentine & Uruguayan town. Tomorrow we head back to Buenos Aires for the ... read more

Montevideo, capitale dell'Uruguay, è una metropoli contemporanea abbastanza vitale.... read more

Ok, So I am a Little behind in my Blogs. what´s new - right?. As I said or meant to say in my last blog is that i flew from Ushuia in the south of Argentina to Buenos Aires. I spent a week or so in Buenos Aires eating good steaks and drinking good cheap wine. I was starting to get stuck (ok, lazy). I did escape for a few days and I went to Uruguay with Dave from Scotland. We took a ferry across the river From BA to Colonia Uruguay and spent the night there. The next day we took a bus to Montevideo and stayed there for a few nights before returning to BA. I left BA a while ago and headed straight to Bolivia. I have been in Sucre Bolivia for about ... read more

Well, here I am in Uruguay. This weekend has been absolutely amazing! I left on Friday morning from Buenos Aires to take the Buquebus (ferry for us English speakers!) over into Colonia. Basically I had scheduled about 7 hours for myself to bum around exploring Colonia. It's an extremely small town, but beautiful. The old city, where I spent the majority of my day, is one of the places that is protected by UNESCO as having International historical value. As I wandered around the city it was strikingly clear how few historical buildings and monuments we have in Oregon. Walking along the water front, I suddenly heard someone call out "Hello, beautiful!" in english. I looked around and it was this kind of grubby looking guy sitting out in front of a house/restaurant. I started talking ... read more

Our passports prove it. We can stay another 3 months in Argentina with our new tourist visa stamp. Hooray, we are not illegal students any longer. (grin) Back in Buenos Aires after a magnificent weekend in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, I wondered to myself, how much does Buenos Aires weigh? It must weigh tons and tons. So much concrete, so many cars, trucks, machines, buildings, factories, people, dogs. Has anyone ever done a study to see how much cities weigh? Get back to me about that one. Anyway, yes, we are back in BA. Refreshed, relaxed, refriada (stuffed up with the flu), and ready for school tomorrow morning. We forgot to mention that the University hosted all of the first year students and new exchange students at their ‘Club Belgrano’ about 100km out of town. I ... read more