Chilean pesos are pretty. A different color and different length for each denomination. The exchange rate varies daily, and the ATM charges fees on both ends, but it’s still quite good. Even a 20,000 peso bill (in January of 2016) is about 30 bucks. Use a Capital One Venture card at restaurants so you don’t […]
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Native Peruvian/Chilean Food Experience
Perumayen Ancestral Food gastronomists researched and reimagined foods from peoples up and down what is now mostly known as Chile. What they came up with using fresh, local ingredients is nothing short of one of the finest dining experiences I’ve had, including the farm to table restaurants of Los Angeles and NYC. Eight breads from […]
The Rambla in Montevideo
The Rambla of Montevideo is 17km long, a pedestrian boardwalk separating the road from the beach with many activities including groups sitting drinking mate socially. Only the beach are volleyball, futvolley (volleyball with soccer rules, no hands just feet, chest, and head), futball in bubbles, kitesurfing, wading in the water, and sunbathing. Constant calls of […]
Montevideo Botanic Garden
A basic collection of perennials from Uruguay, South America and other continents. Most of the plants were familiar, some I’d read about but not seen live, and a few were varieties of plants I hadn’t yet encountered. ‘Cedron del Monte’ in the Uruguay section pictured here is native from Agentina to Texas. Sebastiania Blanquillo can […]
Alive! Museum of the Uruguayan rugby team 1972 plane crash
Welcomed by the museum founder, we saw real pictures and original artifacts from the crash. The founder was inspired by his best friend, one of the survivors, who reminded during a recent major recession that to survive winter at 4000 meters in the mountains, they discovered 100s burn just like 1s. Of 45, after an […]
Kinko is not Kinkos in Montevideo
Kinkos in Montevideo doesn’t make copies or send packages, but they do sell groceries. Including environmentally raised eggs. With a good story.
From Buenos Aires to Montevideo
Our ship came in Bye bye Buenos Aires Cars offloading. We picked up our bags off of an airline-like carousel and got on the bus in Colonia going to Montevideo. Windmills and GMO corn and soy, Uruguay looks like the middle of the US. There were many block and mortar houses that would be considered […]
Buenos Aires – Rando Statues
There are statues in every park throughout the city, some more impressive than others, but all impressive in the commitment to commemorate historical figures. I am iron man Rowing crew statue complete with backpack Futbal tribute Inside the tip of the Obelisk out front of a modern art museum are four windows (with video screens […]
Streets, Pets, Vehicles, and Buildings
This article is a partial list from conversations I’d had years ago with Argentina native Claudia Link about what she enjoyed about Buenos Aires which I’d long forgotten until the moment I encountered the thing or experience she mentioned. I added details I noticed from my experience of each phenomenon of what it’s like to […]
Museo de Mate – Buenos Aires Mate Museum
Used for 2000 years, Yerba Mate is only grown in a region shared by Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Brazil. This small national museum had an impressive collection of gourds ranging from over 100 years old to modern, made of all manner of materials, gourds, hooves, metal, ceramic, glass, porcelain. These gourds pictured above have historic […]