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A Day at the Beach A popular place
Punta Del Este is still a ghost town this time of year, in November. This town by the ocean comes alive in December, January, February and March. Prices go up, locals rent out their homes for triple prices, hotels make enough in a few months to make...
Real estate is always for sale Schemes and dreams
There must be as many real estate sales offices in Punta Del Este as there are places for sale and rent. No one stays put these days and for all the places here that has someone living in them, you still have plenty of places that are empty. This is a...
Santa Everyone knows Santa
On vacation, where it is warm and people lay on the beach, you forget about Christmas. Christmas comes in December no matter where you are in the world. In this Punta Del Este shopping mall, Christmas has arrived, decorations are out, Santa has been...
Punta Ballena/Uruguay As nice as it gets if you have money
Punta Ballena is ten to fifteen miles outside of Punta Del Este. The bus lets you off by a worn out spot on the highway's shoulder and the driver points you across the highway towards an uphill winding road overlooking the ocean. This is my...
Casa Pueblo Reminding me of home
When you come towards the end of the winding road that leads you from the highway to the water, you look down and see a turnaround where buses and cars are parked and people are standing on stone walls taking snapshots of the ocean for their scrapbooks....
Lines and Curves Lines
Drawing is about lines. You have straight lines, curved lines, and a combination of both. With line you begin reproducing what you see, then drawing what you imagine, then making something new that hasn't been seen before. Something must have snapped as...
Biography of an Artist Carlos Paez Vilaro
Casa Pueblo is one of the must see sights in Uruguay. The house is the art studio and home of one of Uruguay's most famous artists - Carlos Paez Vilaro. His biography calls him an abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer,...
Me and My Shadow We go everywhere
At the end of the day, photos are sifted and sorted, evaluated, approved, or deleted. You take as many photos as possible on trips because you know not all things you shoot are going to work. It takes only a quick point, shoot, then you put the camera...
Dog Domination King of all she surveys
As man's best friend, and women's cuddle master, dogs are in Punta Del Este too. I have seen no dog whisperers here as I did in Ciudad Vieja, but dogs go where their masters are. Dog lovers know that their dogs are worth buying a steak for, grilling it,...
Graffiti Steve
Steve is my age. He is standing on a ladder in work clothes scrubbing graffiti off pieces of slate glued to a concrete wall. We both agree it is a stupid place to put slate - stucco, or plaster painted, would make more sense. Still, vandals...
Sandwich bargains Construction site food vendor
Lunch is hours away but a foreman is already buying food for his troops before it rolls around A sale unfolds as I stand on the sidewalk in front of a construction site and watch sandwiches and sweets go into a five gallon bucket. A stooped figure is...
Construction Crane in Punta Del Este All the way from Europe
The crane must be fifty feet tall. " She comes from Europe," the man in the hard hat tells me as he walks over. "Que donde esta?" "Estados Unitos, Nuevo Mexico ...". He holds a small orange box in his hand with buttons. As he pushes buttons the crane...
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