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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 September, 2008

Español, Castellano, Rioplatense and other traps for Gringos…

Posted by southron on September 21st, 2008

From time to time I have wished that I had studied Spanish in school instead of German.  After all, my opportunities for saying, “Guten Tag! Wie geht es Ihnen.” are very limited here–and my German is not good enough to pass myself off as a long lost member of Odessa in Brazil.
Nevertheless, in moments of […]

The Maté Experiment and Its Dangers

Posted by southron on September 19th, 2008

This morning I started my day with the biggest breakfast change since I gave up bacon for low fat hamburgers.  Gone is my well-known a beloved oversized coffee cup, and it is place is the very Uruguayan Maté (gourd into which the Yerba tea is poured) complete with a brand new metal bombilla.
Because yerba maté […]

Exagerated Rumors of My Death

Posted by southron on September 5th, 2008

Mark Twain once wrote, “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated“.  Now, I know how he feels.  Of course, one also has to allow for the possibility that there were no rumors, only hopes… but more about that in a subsequent missive. The Copperhead keeps reminding me that the last time I wrote […]


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