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Free alternative sculpture gardens
Blog: Travel log and tips for budget travel by backpacking, RV (motorhome) and cruising - 25 February 2010
Trivia - Q. There are three countries that have both an Atlantic and a Mediterranean coast, name 2 of them?
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Uruguay, I'm a guay cuatro - Más notas
Blog: Seth of the Equator - 25 February 2010
The concert at Teatro Solís turned out to be sold out, so I got tickets for tomorrow's tango performance instead. In the meantime, I thought I'd check in with some general musings and observations about Uruguay, Montevideo, and my time here.
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Uruguay, I'm a guay tres - Cabo Polonio is duned
Blog: Seth of the Equator - 24 February 2010
I spent the weekend in Cabo Polonio, an isolated beach town along the eastern coast of Uruguay that is renowned for its sand dunes and laid-back style. Because it's so far out on the coast, with dunes that get as high as some New York City brownstones, Cabo Polonio can only be reached by large 4x4 shuttles that run between the local bus stop and the town itself--normal cars can't traverse the road. The isolation also means that the town is almost completely off the grid, in a literal sense: the lone electrical line powers the lighthouse, and nothing else. As a result, it has
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The beautiful dunes and beaches at El Pinar, Uruguay
Blog: Travel log and tips for budget travel by backpacking, RV (motorhome) and cruising - 24 February 2010
Trivia - Q. What is the second largest island in the world?
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Marvelous Montevideo, Uruguay
Blog: Travel log and tips for budget travel by backpacking, RV (motorhome) and cruising - 22 February 2010
Trivia - Q. Which is the largest Fresh water lake in the world?
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DIARY - URUAGUAY Colonia Del Scaramento & Juan Lacaze
Blog: Travel log and tips for budget travel by backpacking, RV (motorhome) and cruising - 19 February 2010
Trivia question - What is the largest Scandinavian Country
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What I’ve learnt from Montevideo
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 16 February 2010
Stepping in dog shit is really fucking annoying. It’s not like I’ve been in any place which outlaws pavement poopery for the last 12 months, more just because the dogs in Montevideo are right dirty bastards. Before Montevideo I had not had one stepping in dog business occasion, now I’ve racked up so many promotions [...]
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Co-lo-ni-a, Co-lo-ni-a, You border on the Rio de la Plata
Blog: Seth of the Equator - 15 February 2010
I spent the weekend traveling to Colonia del Sacramento, generally just referred to as Colonia. Colonia is the closest Uruguayan city to Buenos Aires, and is positioned right at the point where the Rio de la Plata starts to open into the ocean, so it was a desireable territory for much of its colonial history. The Portuguese founded Colonia in 1680--the first European settlement in what is now Uruguay. Due to its strategically advantageous location, Colonia spent the next 150 years as a colonial ping pong ball, changing sovereignty as f
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Murga, She Wrote
Blog: Seth of the Equator - 13 February 2010
As I mentioned at the end of my soccer post, last night's excellent adventure also included a trip to a Murga performance. Murga is a Uruguayan style of theater that is performed during Carnaval. The performers consist of a large group of singers--generally a chorus of about 20 people, usually men--and three drummers. One of the singers also jumps out and conducts from time to time. The groups are generally not professional performers, and are usually just a collection of p
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Center holds it. Holds it. Holds it.
Blog: Seth of the Equator - 12 February 2010
Yesterday was one of those days one only really has while traveling in a foreign city. I was originally expecting to write a post about the one incredible thing I had planned. But, as happens sometimes, I stumbled into yet another equally-if-not-more incredible thing, so it looks like it will take two posts to properly address the awesomeness that was my Thursday night in Montevideo.
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Uruguay, I'm a guay
Blog: Seth of the Equator - 11 February 2010
Well, it's 10pm here in Montevideo, and the sky has been dark for about 45 minutes. Time just exists in a different way here, and it's a thing I'm still trying to wrap my mind around. In a place where you eat lunch at 2:30ish, dinner after 10, and where the sun sets around 9, I think the entire thing would make a lot more sense if everyone would just agree that it's two hours earlier than we're claiming. Unfortunately, I seem to be alone in that idea. Seriously, I'm getting up at the exact same time as I was in Costa Rica, but here it's called 4 hours later.
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Adding to my sunburn tally in Uruguay
Blog: Boodle's Adventure - around the world in 365 days - 6 February 2010
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And the winner is...Uruguay!
Blog: Cogs Watch - 5 February 2010
We'd heard mixed reports on Uruguay. Some people said a day-trip from Buenos Aires to the pretty Colonia del Sacramento was all you needed. Others labelled it boring and uninteresting. One person raved about its beaches and laid-back lifestyle. These reports only made us curious and, as I think any traveller should, we decided to find out for ourselves. This meant a big day of travel. From Iguazu, we jumped back on the bus for 17 hours back to Buenos Aires (first-class of course) which was followed by a one hour ferry ride across the Rio de la Plata. Warning: this post's a big one!
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Heaven and hell
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 29 January 2010
La PedreraOur few days in La Pedrera were unquestionably beautiful and serene. The town is as laid back and lazy as we could have asked for on a beach holiday! There are two beaches to vary the routine - one with waves that had the ability to easily toss us around with their strength (instead we spent most of the time just watching the surfers). The other beach was stocked with people as the surf was much gentler and the swimming was good.
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Paradise...found?
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 26 January 2010
Yesterday marked exactly 5 months since we left home, and we have already logged a total of 60 posts on this blog!I have to say, that I am severely running out of adjectives to use after so many posts. And I am sure you are tired of reading how "beautiful" or "amazing" or "incredible" that things are. But, what else can I say? Every place we see introduces us to something new, whether it be a "beautiful" view, an "amazing" new friend, or an "incredible" experience.
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Travel to Uruguay with New Novel
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 13 January 2010
Great Big Travel Literature Giveaway prize today takes you to Bhutan. See bottom of post for details. First Grand Prize Announced:Everyone who has entered the daily drawing has a chance at one of four grand prizes. The first: a $40 book crammed with information and pictures about the Americas. (Giveaway January 25–3 extra chances if [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library
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Beaches around the world
Blog: everthenomad - 29 December 2009
Today is a clear sunny day in New York but, as we say in Croatian, the sun has teeth. Translated, this means: it is freezing cold!
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El Drugstore in Colonia del Sacramento
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 11 August 2009
Colonia de Sacramento is a small town located a one-hour ferry ride away from Buenos Aires, across the Río de la Plata. Historically, it has switched hands between the Portuguese who founded it and the Spanish numerous times. The Barrio Historico (the historic neighborhood) is now a UNESCO world heritage site. It has small cobblestone streets [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Escape from the city
Blog: Long Life in Buenos Aires - 23 June 2009
A post on how much I love Colonia, Uruguay is long overdue. I’ve been there three times now, and am looking forward to one last ferry ride over there in a few weeks. If you’re into quaint, sleepy, almost even deserted, but absolutely beautiful towns, Colonia del Sacramento is the place to be. It’s right across the river, and the barrio histórico, full of shops and so-so parilla and seafood restaurants is right on the water (some times if you squint real hard the water even looks blue).
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Montevideo, the places you'll see.
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 6 May 2009
There are many things to love about Uruguay. For one thing, the capital city is mostly safe, very pedestrian-friendly, pretty easy to get around by foot, bus and taxi (and the taxi drivers are unerringly honest).
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The old man and the river
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 4 May 2009
If I were to post only one picture to represent my recent trip to Montevideo, it would be this one.In the dying light of one of the last days of summer, an old man with long hair comes out to sit on the sea wall (except it's a river wall) along Rio de la Plata, Montevideo Uruguay's waterfront and playground.
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Rechoo portchoo from Colonia
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 30 April 2009
Last night the temperature dropped and the wind was so blowy and the trees whispered furiously as their leaves rustled against one another in the giant arch that they formed above the streets, that I knew it was fall. What's funny about this fall is that it's the summer of the south of Chile, all humidity and promise of rain and fresh smells and leaves blowing by and no trash at all because people are tidy or because it all got blown somewhere else.
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A point of comparison
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 27 April 2009
I suffer from an inescapable desire to compare this to that. Everywhere I go, I put under the subjective lens that it's taken me all these years to painstakingly construct and send into orbit, like some kind of personal Hubble Telescope, but without blowing the budget quite so much and without such stunning images. (though more than one editor in recent months has asked me if I've thought about seriously pursuing photography, but maybe that's some kind of weird ego-fanning that editors do; if I understood editors, my life would look very different.
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Day 1: Hey-Ho LET’S GO!
Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 1 January 2009
01.01.09: 7.30am. Woke up to find that sand demons had filled my teeth with silica gel and that a brass band had barged its way into my brain and had started to bashing out the 1812 Overture at a volume that would make an Indonesian quiver. Maybe not the ideal start to The Odyssey Expedition. [...]
