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Fish Monsters Catfish monsters
This morning, I walk down Calle Uruguay, all the way to the Rio Uruguay. This river separates Argentina and Uruguay. Though it isn't the Mississippi or the Nile, or the Amazon, it meets the rock test. If a body of water is so big you can't throw a rock...
Juan Carlos and Mate National drink
Marijuana is legal in Uruguay. You don't see much of it on the streets. A few surfers under palm trees indulge themselves, the pungent smell immediately detectable. You see tourists enjoying the herb in public, flaunting authorities. However, the...
Ralli Museum Beverly Hills Look Alike
There is a Beverly Hills of Punta Del Este, Uruguay. They call it a barrio, like other barrios, but, the houses are immense, the yards larger, the privacy maintained, and no clunkers are allowed on the streets. The Beverly Hills barrio of Punta Del Este...
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...
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,...
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...
Truth is stranger than fiction National hero
Jose Artigas is to Uruguay what George Washington is to the United States. You see enough statues in enough places and finally you wonder about the men behind them. You do a little research and discover that Jose Artigas is a real person with a real...
Buried Neck Down in Piriapolis All in fun
Piriapolis is a small Uruguayan town an hour bus ride from Punta Del Este. A one way ticket on the bus lines COT, or COPSA, runs ten dollars. This is one of those side trips that gives a bigger vision of the country.The beaches at Punta Del Este are well...
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