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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 December 24th, 2006

Montevideo just became more dangerous.

Posted by southron on December 24th, 2006

Thursday afternoon my sister-in-law and nephew arrived from Florida to spend Christmas week with me.  In addition to bringing themselves, which is the best part, they also very kindly brought my new handicapped scooter along with them.  Just to be safe come off I bought a special oversized heavy duty all-terrain supercharged scooter built on […]

Taxis, taxis everywhere, but none that I can fit it…

Posted by southron on December 24th, 2006

Montevideo is literally crawling with taxis. Day or night you can see them cruising almost everywhere in the city.
UL member Clara (our favorite Uruguaya-Californian) very neatly described how one can easily get a taxi in Montevideo. In the forum she wrote, “Call 141 from your home number (also works with cell but then […]


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