The Sunday afternoon gathering at Old Maz is beginning to take on some of the aspects of the old frontier trading post that served as store, restaurant, bar, post office, meeting place, etc.
Glen and his wife Marionella are the regulars that are always there, The Southron is just a bit irregular (some say about 15 degrees out of sync), and then others ebb and flow as their schedules permit.
Yesterday’s gathering was particularly interesting:
+ We got to meet the ever prolific Syd and Gundy from BC, whom we already felt like we knew from Syd’s travelogs in SociedadSouthron.net—they are on a scouting expedition prior to relocating here—Syd is into cooking and between he and GauchaGuapa I think we have our UL food editors; AND Gundy is the greatest, she brought the Southron a big hunk of wonderful cheddar cheese—how can you beat that? The best way to my heart certainly is through my stomach…
+ The Stull family rejoined us after several busy Sundays—Chuck and his wife (he never reveals her name anywhere on his blog) are both economists here for a year; their teen-aged daughter is a futbolista, but not an economist—they really are a fun family, I have spoken with them a lot and despite being (shudder) academics, they don’t live in ivory towers, and they do have their feet firmly planted on the ground. Everyone who has met them wants to find a way to keep them here at the end of their year.
+ Harry, the Expat currently living in Panamá had just returned from a foray into the interior—apparently he found a property that “you know who” would tout if they could—34 hectares, riverfront, big house with both US and local electricity throughout, on a paved road for less than US$1,000 an acre—he is leaving shortly but will be back within a month.
+ Everybody’s most important local friends, Fatma and Miguel, also made an appearance later in the afternoon—they met briefly with Harry and then whisked Syd and Gundy off somewhere; what would we poor gringo expats do without these wonderful trail blazers guiding us through the immigration mountains?
And there were others from the UL community that could not be there, or have not yet made it there: Torero and Gauchaguapa were in BA, IBMike is still catching up on his sleep, Marcus and Jenny are getting tired of only have a bed in their new house and are working on remedying that, Alexander and his family from Siberia have finally found a house and are moving, and our UK friends aren’t quite ready for a public appearance.
If you are here in Montevideo for the day, week, month, season or permanently; and are Uruguayos, semi-Uruguayos, Gringos or even Martians, you are welcome to join us!
Personal Note: All of this pleasantness is very disturbing to me. How am I expected to keep up my curmudgeonhood surrounded by friendly people that are easy to spend time with? (I suppose I could focus on the nasty emails I get every week that you never see—but they only annoys me for a few minutes at a time.)
$1000. per acre for land out in the country. According to you know who, it is only $100 to $2o0. per acre.
Left by suomiamerican on November 13th, 2006
It would be interesting to get more details on the land like where it is, who was the real estate agent, similar properties etc.
>>It was in Treinte y Tres, there was no realtor. I will ask permission to disclose more facts.
Left by tucsontom on November 13th, 2006