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The best lifestyle in the world for the price… 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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It is widely published that Uruguay is the least religious country in South America, that less that 2/3 of the people consider themselves Catholic, and that unlike Argentina, in which Roman Catholicism is the State Religion, Uruguay is a secular State.
But, I beg to differ; at least in part. Uruguay is not very Catholic, but [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How about eating your cake and having it too? That was always my goal when I was growing up–actually it was usually pie, ice cream or potato chips; cake was not a special favorite.
Nevertheless, we have an opportunity to do it now. We don’t need to make a choice between going to the
Southeastron [...]
Last weekend, the Southron was privileged to be the only extranjero invited to a Uruguayan rite of passage for young ladies: Quince Años, the 15 year old’s birthday party.
This party is a combination of a US middle class “Sweet Sixteen” party, an upper class “Coming Out” debutante ball, and a solemn affair of State. [...]
Every time I think I know something in Spanish, they throw me a curve ball! Like most of the rest of the world, Uruguay is not particularly “big†on salad dressing—though it does exist and is slowly catching on at about the same rate as conversions to Tree Worship.
Friday I ordered a enslada mixta, [...]
That was probably the only decent line in the movie “Cool Hand Lukeâ€, and it epitomizes the way I sometimes feel when speaking English around the world.
For example, when I lived in the West Indies, someone would say to me, “I’m going to pass by your house tonightâ€. My usual response was, “that’s [...]
Today at lunch I saw something that starkly demonstrates one big difference between the US and the rest of the world. The salad dressing bottle was almost empty, and it was very hard to drain the dregs from it.
My solution would have been to turn the bottle upside down and wait, so that more of [...]
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