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This is the journal of The Southron, an 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 March, 2009

How to stop inward investment: Part 37

Posted by The Southron on March 24th, 2009

One of the very best things about being resident and working in Uruguay is that everyone who pays into BPS (social security) is entitled to participate in one of the Health Insurance Plans, which I have found to be very good.  As you know, from previous articles, I use COSEM, and have been delighted with [...]

Green means Go; sometimes…

Posted by The Southron on March 14th, 2009

Driving in Uruguay can be quite an adventure, especially for the uninitiated.
The first thing you must learn is that the lines dividing the lanes are purely ornamental, and that if you insist on trying to stay in the center of what you thought was a lane of traffic, you will be an obstacle to progress.  [...]

Spring forward, fall into confusion…

Posted by The Southron on March 8th, 2009

Early this morning, Uruguay changed from Summer time (UYST) to standard time (UYT). Since it is fall here, we turned our clocks back 1 hour. At the same time we made that change, the US made its spring foward to daylight saving time. The total relative time shift was 2 hours, some [...]

The following was sent to me by the Editor of the newsletter of the British Society of Uruguay and is posted at his request.  I plan to see it and write a review–I always wanted to be a theatre critic…
In March a group of professional British actors come to Montevideo to stage a new play [...]


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