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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 February, 2007

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

Posted by southron on February 26th, 2007

Yesterday our usual Sunday get-together was moved from its former location to a very nice restaurant right on the Rio at Rambla Gandhi 400, called “El Viejo y El Mar — The Old Man and the Sea”; obviously it had been named for me….
While I had suspected that “something was up”, the change of venue […]

An Anniversary Remembered

Posted by southron on February 23rd, 2007

In about two hours it will be exactly one year since I set foot on Uruguayan soil for the first time. I arrived at Carrasco International Airport with five suitcases, two wheelchairs and two dogs. I was exhausted from the trip which it started the previous morning in Costa Rica, and included […]

Crazy Gringos Celebrate something or other

Posted by southron on February 18th, 2007

What do you get when you mix Hawaiian beef, Chinese chicken, double chocolate cookies, Uruguayan wine, Grappa made from Gewürztraminer grapes, fireworks and incense?
I’ll give you a hint: it has something to do with the Moon and the Vernal Equinox, and this coming Wednesday is Ash Wednesday …
For those of you who guessed Carnival or […]

The race between a snail and the glacier…

Posted by southron on February 9th, 2007

After nearly 2 months of effort, our success in getting the Internet bandwidth that we need is so infinitesimal that I can hardly restrain myself from doing my imitation of a sailor who just hit his finger with a hammer.  When compared to the improvements in our Internet, snails race across the garden wall, and […]

The laws of physics must be regional!

Posted by southron on February 3rd, 2007

I have come to law the conclusion that the laws of physics must operate differently in different parts of the world. When I lived in the West Indies it was an observable fact that gravity was heavier and friction greater, hence slowing down the pace at which everything operated. Here the laws […]


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