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 […]
Category Archives: Montevideo, Uruguay
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 […]