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The best ‘almost’ Uruguayan experiences ever…

A Uruguayan comedy of errors… We’d been planning for months to visit the coast north of Montevideo, it’s supposed to be a pretty stretch, and many of the beach houses are designed by some of the best SA architects, so we thought combo of design in the open air, and a quiet one night beachContinue reading “The best ‘almost’ Uruguayan experiences ever…”

mausoleums, miaos and meyer eat your heart out…!

Before I have haunted ghostly nightmares tonight, I thought I’d write about the Recoleta cemetery that we visited this morning. This is actually the third time we’ve tried to visit Evita, the first was in 2003 when the cemetery was completely closed for renovation, the second about a week ago, with no umbrella, in the freezingContinue reading “mausoleums, miaos and meyer eat your heart out…!”

Argentinian wombat escapes to Uruguay…

Signing off as have just lost the first four paragraphs I wrote…so need to recover…will come back and re-edit tomorrow…think it’s a bit like when Loc loses his mega spreadsheets…and mood probably similar!!! OK a little calmer, so will aim to edit back to the orginal…we had always intended to visit Uruguay (and Paraguay althoughContinue reading “Argentinian wombat escapes to Uruguay…”

Packing stuff…review month 1

Soooo….based on my original simple rules, what’s working, what isn’t, and what did I miss…? First up should have packed a few more books, although the last few weeks have been all about trying to learn and absorb Spanish, so anything and everything written is jumped on, and magazines have been great given the generallyContinue reading “Packing stuff…review month 1”

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