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The best lifestyle in the world for the price… 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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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 […]
The Lone Ranger had Tonto, Batman had Robin, the Cisco Kid had Pancho and The Southron now has Borko.
You may recall that on the 27th of January I reported that Borko finally had his visa application approved. However, due undoubtedly to the Southern Hemisphere Effect, it took more than a week for that visa […]
In about two hours it will be exactly one year since I set foot on Uruguayan soil for the first time. I arrived at Carrasco International Airport with five suitcases, two wheelchairs and two dogs. I was exhausted from the trip which it started the previous morning in Costa Rica, and included […]
What do you get when you mix Hawaiian beef, Chinese chicken, double chocolate cookies, Uruguayan wine, Grappa made from Gewürztraminer grapes, fireworks and incense?
I’ll give you a hint: it has something to do with the Moon and the Vernal Equinox, and this coming Wednesday is Ash Wednesday …
For those of you who guessed Carnival or […]
This past Sunday, I decided to take my new “crip” scooter to our forum group gathering at Old Maz deli for the second time–but this time I decided to do it the hard way. By “the hard way”, I mean making the trip on the sidewalks, rather than the easy way, which is going the […]
When my nephew was very young he once asked me why it was important to “be polite” and to say “please” and “thank you”. I explained to him that among its other virtues, “politeness is the lubricant” that lets people interact smoothly and with less friction. Politeness, I told him helped make things […]
After the daylight break in last week I determined that it would be a good idea to have a proper alarm systems here at my house/office, especially since we have so much equipment. Accordingly the existing minimal system has been vastly upgraded to include perimeter alarms, motion detectors, breakage alarms, laser tripwires, 4000 volt […]
A few of my more astute readers may have noticed that I have not published much in the blog over the last nine days. For some this is been a tremendous service, as it has helped them develop their own creative talents; the result of which has been rumors of my death, dismemberment, deportation, hospitalization, […]
Montevideo is literally crawling with taxis. Day or night you can see them cruising almost everywhere in the city.
UL member Clara (our favorite Uruguaya-Californian) very neatly described how one can easily get a taxi in Montevideo. In the forum she wrote, “Call 141 from your home number (also works with cell but then […]
I just don’t get out enough. Because of the wheelchair I have learned to work through surrogates to get most things done that are needful. Also, since living here in Carrasco requires an extra 20 or 30 minutes to get anywhere it fuels my disinclination to leave my desk. This is a […]
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