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Santiago has turned 25 this week–and we will be celebrating his birthday this week at our Thursday night Happy Hour at the UruguayLiving.com offices. Directions at: http://www.sociedadsouthron.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=874&p=5453#p5453
We invite you to join with us in celebrating someone so central to all of us who participate in UruguayLiving or the SociedadSouthron forum.
Fifty-five weeks ago Santiago Galli […]

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After more than 16 months living in Uruguay I’ve come to the conclusion that there are least four languages in which I regularly more or less communicate. These are: English, Spanish, Spanglish and Ingspañol. (There is also a fair amount of profanity which may well have reached sufficient proportions to be considered a […]

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While sitting here in my office and staring into the fog on the Rio de la Plata I had a vision….

At first I was in a place that seemed a pleasant enough, but no matter how hard I tried it there were always obstacles that I had to climb over–the harder I climbed, the more […]

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There are several stories that I started and not completed for one reason or another.  Now, I can provide a least a few answers.
A Corporal Work of Mercy:  You may remember the taxi driver that was killed: and that we collected about $350 for his widow and children.  It took several months, help from friendly […]

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In what some will undoubtedly see as yet another nefarious attempt to Anglicize Uruguayan society, to UruguayLiving.com gang will be sponsoring a “Cinco de Mayo” party on Saturday, May 5, starting at 6 p.m., at our offices in Buceo.
Appropriate Mexican food and drinks will be served.  Please feel free to bring along any of your […]

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Starting NOW, The Uruguay Living & Sociedad Southron gang will be trying a new location that hopefully will serve everyones needs better. It is
Don Pepperone outside Montevideo Shopping.
(not the one in the food court)
*** It is all on one floor which helps us crips.
*** It is huge.
*** It has an “outside” room […]

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In keeping with our rapidly developing tradition of finding any plausible reason to throw a party, the UruguayLiving crowd will be hosting a Saint Patrick’s Day party at our new offices this Saturday beginning at 9PM.
Directions at: http://www.sociedadsouthron.net/forums/ … f=12&t=546
The traditional green beer and Jameson’s Whiskey will be provided, as will the less traditional […]

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After months of waiting, the printed version of “The Southron’s Guide to Living in Uruguay” is finally available online at: http://www.lulu.com/content/579686.
This is a full-sized, 8½ x 11 inch paper back, with color covers and black-and-white inside. Because of its large size is much easier to read than the pocket-sized edition produced locally.  The price for […]

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Until further notice, you will find the gang from UruguayLiving/Sociedad Southron every Sunday afternoon from 1PM-4PM (or later) at:
El Viejo Y El Mar
Rambla Gandhi 400
esquina Solano Garcia.
El Viejo Y El Mar has an unsurpassed view of the Rio de la Plata, ease of access (all 1 floor with a ramp), attentive waiters and waitresses, an […]

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Yesterday our usual Sunday get-together was moved from its former location to a very nice restaurant right on the Rio at Rambla Gandhi 400, called “El Viejo y El Mar — The Old Man and the Sea”; obviously it had been named for me….
While I had suspected that “something was up”, the change of venue […]

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