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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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Piriapolis vs. “Noche de las Luces”

Posted by southron on December 9th, 2007

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

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A Sweet Sixteen (actually fifteen) blowout…

Posted by southron on October 27th, 2007

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. […]

If it’s not VIRGIN olive oil, was it pressed in a bordello?

Posted by southron on October 2nd, 2007

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, […]

What we got here is a failure to communicate…

Posted by southron on September 20th, 2007

That was probably the only decent line in the movie “Cool Hand Luke”, 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 tonight”. My usual response was, “that’s […]

Something I never saw at my parents dinner table…

Posted by southron on September 17th, 2007

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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