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This is the journal of The Southron, an American Emigrant from Florida who has spent the last decade living in the West Indies, former Yugoslavia and Costa Rica. He moved to Montevideo, Uruguay at the end of February 2006...

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Archive for November 11th, 2006

I’m so excited I could just…

Posted by southron on November 11th, 2006

I don’t think my readers understand the level of excitement I experience in my life, especially on the weekends, so I thought that perhaps I would give you a glimpse of a typical Southron weekend,
Saturday
08.40 wake up when my two organic alarm clocks (my dogs) decide to romp on top of me
08.45 go to desk […]

Montevideo is a capital Capital City!

Posted by southron on November 11th, 2006

Over the last 8 months we have spent so much time focusing on how livable Montevideo is that we have largely ignored one of the key elements that make it so: Montevideo is the Capital City of Uruguay.
That fact may sound obvious, and seem like an unimportant bit of almanac trivia, but it […]

Steaming, sticky, hot and humid…

Posted by southron on November 11th, 2006

…are NOT any of the terms that I would use to describe the weather here in Montevideo, despite what many of the Uruguayos will tell you. Right now it is 21C/70F and the relative humidity is 48%—compare that to 81% in St. Petersburg, Florida or 83% in Panamá, or even 73% in Miami—and I […]

Frankly, Scarlet, I don’t give a damn…

Posted by southron on November 11th, 2006

Rhett Butler’s famous demurrer seems to be the state of the Law here in Uruguay, at least insofar as it applies to fraud–at least on a one-to-one basis. No where has this been more clearly demonstrated than in the ongoing plight of the couple from the UK who had everything stolen minutes after moving […]


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