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Uruguays Hauptstadt
Nach Sacramento sind wir fuer einen weiteren Zwischenstopp in die Haupstadt Uruguays, nach Montevideo, gekommen. Leider hatten wir insgesamt nur etwa 10 Stunden Zeit fuers Sightseeing, haben aber einen guten Teil der Rambla und der Ciudad Vieja gesehen (leider zum Teil im ...
Tiden flyver - B.A!
... kunskaber, gode asados (steaks), et stolt og et europaeisk lignende folk som lever under strukturede forhold. Det hele meget europaeisk, som ogsa var grunden til at jeg valgte netop BA som min foerste destination.
Byen er stor og overvaeldende og bugner af smaa hyggelige pladser og kvarterer. Det mest hyggelige er dog San Telmo, som jeg vil anbefale at bo i, hvis man besoeger BA.
Det historiske aspekt af BA maa jeg indroemme jeg ikke har dyrket saa meget. Det interesserer ...
Hungry like the wolf
... chivito......the chivito brothers. Chivitos are the uraguan version of a hamburger they serve it with egg,salad, bacon etc I will be able to give more detail when I have actually had one. So he knows all the best places to get food and where is the cheapest for good quality. The man is a legend! Tonight he took us to a place selling 'parrilla' which is basically barbecued meat, the meat is cooked on the embers ...
Over to Montevideo
... waitress nor the manager could think of the word in English, so our waitress walked back to the kitchen and came back with an onion. The cook, a black man who, to me, looked like Cleavon Little (see the movie Blazing Saddles, for you younger folk), followed her out of the kitchen, and when he saw her showing the onion to Kaaren, called out, "it's an onion." We might have had more luck communicating directly with him.
Eventually, we made our way back to the hotel and turned in for the ...
Uruguay-- insert grade school gay jokes here...
... After 3 nights on the coast we headed back inland, and spent 1 day in the town of Colonia del Sacramento, yet another pleasant colonial era trading (and smuggling) town that probably has a gringo to local ratio of 5-1, and pricey kitsch to match. From here we drank our last bottle of Uruguayan wine (meh), enjoyed the sunset, and surveyed what was to be our next great conquest just across the Rio del Plata... Buenos Aires, the "Paris of South America". ...
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