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: South America
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 […]
Gardens, Plants, and Landscapes of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vertical gardens have caught on here as they have in American cities. There are many of the same standard plants in North American landscapes coast to coast as there are in Buenos Aires. People in the city with balconies typically have things growing. While marijuana is not legal here, I’ve seen two places with two […]
Christmas in Buenos Aires
A 71% Catholic country, Argentina has been adopting more and more American consumer holidays as they lessen restrictions to enter the world market. In 1914 Argentina was among the 10 wealthiest countries in the world because of beef and grain export.