Finally, we are ´home´ in my sweet Buenos Aires! Yesterday was a somewhat exhausting day, leaving Colonia in the early hours and catching the bus to Montevideo, Uraguay´s capital. As we arrived it quickly became apparent that a Sunday was not the best day to visit and the beginning of winter was also not the best time of year! Put simply, it was...

By the end of our time in the falls, the place was somehow our friend. I know that sounds strange, but that is how it felt. We were comfortable, we felt supported, and we felt like friends. Needless to say, leaving comfort is not always easy. I sat staring at the falls, thinking too much, complicating the process. Thankfully the taxi driver did ...

"Are you travelling", the guy sitting next to me in the internet cafe asks. "Si", I say. "What are you doing here?" he asks. I'm thinking, 'Yeah, what am I doing here' but I say, "Just looking around". He's originally from Uruguay but now lives in NYC and is back for a week long visit. There's not much to do here except eat, drink and watch peop...

What´s Hot: mate + mugs + thermos, coffee with baileys and charlotte for $3, farming cows, beachside resorts, cobblestone roads, going to Teatro Solis and watching jazz, old bullfighting stadium, the ´hand in the sand´, staying in a one star hotel. What´s Not: beachside resorts during the off season + winter storms, uruguayan wine, cubierto cove...

From November 18th to 20th I went to Uruguay with my friend Lior from AIESEC. We spent pretty much all of the three days in Montevideo, except for the last two hours, which we spent in Colonia, a small town on the Rio de la Plata, very close to Buenos Aires. Montevideo is such a cute town! Its a lot smaller than Buenos Aires and its not that cra...

Sorry about that last email of immature mollusc references. So... what has been happening in my life I hear you ask? (actually, that is probably a rhetorical question as my main email responder is currently my mum... love you mum) ahem. I have finished with argentina (in much the same way that fiscal management has finished with argentina - not ...

Jan (aleman) en Quito yo en Mancora amigas de John (Cusco) en Quito la Belga bajando de M.P. Carol (irlandesa) en La Paz Elizabeth (NL) Abigale (UK)

Well the big city life again. Police are visable on the corners of old town, cleaned by the very young entrepeneurs and their horse-drawn garbage carts. The old town has great architecture and like the rest of Montevideo crumbled into ruins among the poverty and graffiti. The City is very quiet at night, except specific bar streets packed with l...

Hallooooo, Zondag 23 december, regenachtig, en brak van een lange nacht. Gister was namelijk een ontzettend groot festival in Montevideo. Het grootste, en meest belangrijkste festival in heel Uruguay. La fiesta final, una noche de paz. Mensen uit heel uruguay, maar ook uit Brazilie en Argentinie kwamen naar Montevideo. Zo ook kwam een meisje uit...