Ermitage Montevideo

... those triumphs some thrity-five years before Pele was making his mark. French paper clippings at the time commented on the unique sight of a "Negro" player! <br><br>The stadium itself has changed little over the years but has stood the test of time. Built in under 8 months, its design was year´s ahead of its time and makes you think that the construction of the likes of Wembley was unnecessarily complicated. <br><br>Visiting Estadio Centanario was a great experience and a must ...

... little city that I would have liked to spend a little more time in but our guide takes us down a few streets then says ok lets jump on the bus, a mini bus more like a van compared to our usual, that we didn't realize would be carrying us all the way to Montevideo. We are then dropped off at our hotel to check in and leave our luggage they drive us to a place for lunch then take us back to our hotel and leave. It was so ...

... s simple pour y aller: il y a un terminal maritime à Buenos Aires, on prend le Buquebus, le bateau-navette, et trois heures après on est à Montevideo! En plus il y a le WiFi dans le bateau, via un lien téléphone cellulaire, alors c'est lent comme un escargot qui a le mal de mer mais on a quand même un accès. :) J'avais reçu un email de Louise (starlagurl), une employée de TravelPod à Ottawa, alors j'y ai répondu ...

... has heaps of beaches to boot. Today´s pretty stormy but that can only add to it´s characterof curmbling art deco buildings side by side with 1970s creations. The side roads to the beach from the life filled squares reminds me of the streets in Baz Luhrman´s Romeo And Juliet...some of the facades looke like deacying theatres and come in a pretty mix of colours but are grubby like some of the wandering homeless, junkies and drunks that you ...

... through pedestrian malls with restaurants and watering holes galore. Rio de Janerio was a very dirty city with piles of garbage everywhere; Buenos Aires was much cleaner but dirty in comparison to cities in Canada; and Montevideo was a spotless South American oasis. We were accosted by a gentleman from the US of A and invited to a wine tasting. We were not entirely sure we wanted to attend a wine tasting and ...

... meat that can vary from your standard t-bone to chorizo to innards i prefer not to think about. - morcilla - blood sausage with what i think may be pine nuts and raisins, which is actually quite good if you don't think about what it is that you're eating. *paso de los toros grapefruit soda. unbelievably delicious. i don't know why it hasn't been exported to everywhere. *biscochos - like mini-croissants and can be salty or sweet and which ...

... park and around the east side of the city and then we headed to the beach for a relaxing walk and paddle in the sea. It has been a much better day today. Tomorrow we are leaving for a beach town further up the coast. We have decided to travel with Danielle for the next week as we are all going to the same places and three people is safer than two or one. We have to be at the bus station for 6.30am so a very early start!

... are based, along with the wealthiest of Monetvideo residents. The prison/shopping centre is in a beachside suburb of town and as we walk along the wide boulevard, which seems to run for miles, we feel that we could almost be in the South of France. This area of the city lacks the colonial architecture but is a lot more upmarket than the centre with lots of wonderful house and apartments. I can think of worse places to live! <br><br>Apparently the road ...

... didnt fancy the all night drinkathon again tonight. we were going to hire a car on friday but i was undedided about going as really tired adn didnt want to surf which is what they were planning. but the talked me into it so juan alex and becka dn me set off on our adventure to peurto de estat or somewhere. first we had to go to ticket office so juan could get our bus tickets for next day so we had a fun hour in the cr ...