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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 August, 2007

Nostalgia Night–or a Night to Forget QUICKLY

Posted by southron on August 28th, 2007

Last Friday the UruguayLiving staff and dates went to a Nostalgia Night (La Noche de Nostaligia) at a party center at about Kilometer 13 on Ruta 5–it was hosted by one of the major hotels and cost US$50 per person.
Considering the price, the provider and the location, everything should have been first class…
WRONG!
The first thing […]

Skype has skipped out…

Posted by southron on August 16th, 2007

If you are like me, the internet based communications service know as Skype is one of the key means by which you stay in touch with the world. Of course, because I am the kind of guy who wears a belt and braces (suspenders to Yankees), I also have Vonage VoIP phone service, BroadVoice […]

Uruguay versus Costa Rica: the first of occasional rantings…

Posted by southron on August 14th, 2007

One of the things that seems to amaze many of the Uruguayos I meet is that I left Costa Rica to come here.  After all, doesn’t Costa Rica have better weather?  Isn’t it a world famous Expat haven where more than 100,000 gringos have found a home?  How could anyone leave there for here?
Easy!  After […]

The two-faced weather gods of the Rio de la Plata.

Posted by southron on August 14th, 2007

Just a over two weeks ago we had the coldest weather on record in Uruguay—in some places it was -6C (20F).  Prior to that, the lowest recorded temperature was -3C (25F).  Either way, both are a serious departure from the average low in July or August of 6C (43F).  Last night the weather was horrid—it […]

No global warming here!

Posted by southron on August 2nd, 2007

I was just reading about the Winter weather here in a book some fool wrote about living in Uruguay. I was particularly struck by this quote:
The warm days go up to the mid 70s, but now the cold nights can go down to around 40, or even lower on occasion.
The fool was […]

The Big Score!

Posted by southron on August 1st, 2007

After this Friday my new address will be:  El Gringo Gordo con Dos Bastones, Villa Mucho Dinero, Calle de Oro, Cabo Polonio, Rocha. (The fat Gringo with 2 canes, Big Money Villa, Golden Street, Cabo Polonio—way the heck out past Punta).
I made so much money from these websites that I am retiring.
After a year-and-a-half of […]


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