Spa Hotel Quirinale Colon

... off dancing, He intruduced me to his friends one of which was a isreali who spoke perfect english, but actually by this point in my trip, Unless im talking poltics A translator is not nessary anymore. Apart from when i want to buy something, my brain always seems to stop working and i forget my vocabulary when i hit a bus terminal, and i always resort to the good old fashioned pointing and grunting technic. I really had a great time I danced until 7 am ...

... aunts and uncles, All trying to hook me up with Any girl that crosses there eyes, They´ll go right up and be like hey i have a canadian cousin he likes you, without ever consulting me. So the only problem with this at the moment is this town anyone my age has left for greener pastures which leaves a big age gap theres virtually no single people between 20-30 years old. So thats my fast lil update about the B-day party. If you ...

... is 6 Attractive women for every 1 man. Speaking of the exodious i was told yesterday that 4 years ago 70 000 people left uruguay for greener pastures, But they were just average workers not very highly educated. (200 people every day) Last year 20 000 highly educated people left uruguay for greener pastures thats about 50 people highly intelegent and localy trained university educated, Leaving every single day. Once again i am not saying ...

... little squares, and the beach is perfect with white sand and lots of shady areas for Tony. Because it´s beside the river there is also a nice breeze even though it did make it up to about 32C one day. We've been taking our siestas which are a long and serious affair here, everything closes between 1 and 5. So did we and we had a great time just relaxing after our fun but hectic time in BA. We just found out that the bus we booked from here to Iguazu doesn ...

It is the habit here for people to drink Mate (mar-tay). Actually it is a national obsession. The Uruguayans drink it everywhere; buses, streets, while shopping, in the park, come rain or shine each person carries a flask of hot water, gourd-like cup filled with a dry leaf herby mixture which they sip through a silver ´straw.´ There is a lot of leather here too and much of it is used for the mate ... solid leather, oval shaped, holdalls ...

... as you enter restaurants, pleading eyes say, "Remember me as you leave" They know the firm boundary of the doorstep only pushing their noses over the line, Smell the aroma on the air, tails raise up in anticipation, they will not budge from that doorway. Stray dogs know their place. Peter T.

Long time no blog and now, well we´re at this festival thing in Uruguay and a band all dressed in white (like sailors uniforms) have just marched past in the hot sunshine on this Saturday afternoon. Begs the question how/why are we here .... well it is really quite a long tale but very briefly ... whoops there they go again and why aren´t I out there with my camera, because I just didn´t believe it!!! We are in a tiny place called Liberdad (here b´s ...

Aha, he's recycling the bad-taste joke made during the attack of diarrhoea a couple of weeks back, you're thinking, and therefore indicating that those creepy-crawlies in the satsuma weren't so innocent after all! And yet again, behold the cruel irony of the town's name, what more apt place to suffer an intestinal disease than Colon? But in fact, you're thinking wrong. This time it really did pour - from the sky, no less! Having had a remarkably dry six weeks, by any account, the ...

... availablity of mandarinas, which as you all know are sweet, juicy, and unlike their eponymous orange cousins, easy peasy lemon squeezy to peel, even with the handicap of gloves. At 10p a kilo, mandarinas become the next caramelitos, and my main motivator as I chewed on the miles was the promise of this juicy reward during my next rest stop. However, today something happened, and I'm not sure I can ever eat another mandarina again. As usual ...

Al right well i don't really know where i left off last and i just spent most my internet time trying to e-mail some Spanish girls so yeah lots of bable fish copy and pasting really so probly wont be as long as the previous ones. last night after the net we met more of our cousins these ones have 2 farmacies and a ESTATE call it big pimpin in south america, so we switched places, yeah i felt bad, but man they got a maid and **** you would too ...