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The Violin Player Art show in Urban Heritage offices
The Urban Heritage group are Old City real estate developers. Jesper and his wife Olenka, partners in the Group,host an art exposition on the evening of November 7th, 2014 to promote their vision for the area to investors and business people and lovers...
Pesos 101 Following the money
In Uruguay you are reminded often that you must use their local currency. At the airport there are signs that direct you to a currency exchange booth where you trade American money for comparable pesos. There is a transaction charge and it brings new...
Pocitos Farmers Market Fresh as it gets
Sometimes travel Gods give you good outcomes. You don't have a plan, just strike out and do what seems to be interesting and they take you to places and events you didn't know existed. When I started this morning I was going to go to the Centro to check...
Pocitos Open Air Market / Horses Horses are still getting us where we need to go
At an open air feria in Pocitos,Uruguay there are plenty of people out shopping this morning but only a few horses. While I wait for my empanada from a street vendor, a lady spoils a horse that has been halted near me till an intersection clears of...
Pocitos-Frisbee Walking the Rambla
The Rambla is a paved course way that runs from Ciudad Vieja to Pocitos and beyond. It runs along the sea where humans go to walk and talk, show themselves off to the world, build sand castles on the beach. There are animals, bike riders,...
Palacio Taranco tourist stop
The Palacio is, by the map, located in the heart of the Old City. If you look at a map of Montevideo you see at least thirty points of interest in Ciudad Vieja and fewer as you move outward towards other barrios; Centro, Barrio Sur, Palermo, Aguada,...
Port of Montevideo Argentina isn't in the cards
The Port reminds me of a toy box in a giant's kid's room. It is walled off from the public with a tall iron fence and each of its entrances is protected by security guards who don't want people entering without proper credentials. Along the fence's...
Fishing in the Rio Plata Catfish time
One evening, as the sun is falling, it makes sense to stroll down to the water's edge, follow a concrete pier that juts into the water like the end of a fishing pole left discarded by a disgruntled fisherman. The pier is edged with giant stones and this...
Tourista Sightseeing Bus/Port of Montevideo Dot to dot travel
There aren't many bargains for the traveler but one is sightseeing buses you find in large South American cities. These double deck buses run routes through the city like a regular bus but they stop at multiple tourist destinations where you can exit and...
Hot Water Heater Meltdown/Piedras Street Hot water is an essential
For two days, hot water has not been working. The landlord has been attentive, sent someone by who thought it might be something it wasn't, then sends his maintenance man to troubleshoot. Hugo comes prepared with a tape measure, apartment keys, an...
Men in Black Blues in Montevideo
Blues chords aren't complex, the rhythms and melodies aren't sophisticated, the harmony is a step down from folk music but several steps below jazz. Stevie Ray Vaughn isn't the only white blues man to make it big and suffer an untimely end. He has been...
Statue comes alive/Constitution Plaza Street art in human form
Walking towards Constitution Plaza from Independence Plaza, there are bronze Generals on horseback every block, as well as little plaza's and parks. There is something sad about memorializing heroes in bronze and then placing them outside where pigeons...
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