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I love small businesses! While some can be very bad, many are extremely good, and almost all are distinctive. In the last few weeks I had the opportunity to visit a small business that was so friendly and helpful that I decided to give them a plug here. The business is Meerhoff Optica at the [...]
I’m not sure the old Thanksgiving some really “works” as amended, and I sure as heck haven’t figured out how to work in the part about the sleigh–somehow a carrito just conjures up the wrong image. Nevertheless, Thanksgiving is coming again and we will be celebrating it in our new tradtional fashion just like last [...]
By now, most everyone knows that in Real Life (if you can call it that) I work in the offshore banking industry. We do no banking in Uruguay–because it is slow, expensive and difficult–but we do have am administration office here. As a normal part of our business we open financial accounts with various institutions [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mark Twain once wrote, “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated“. Now, I know how he feels. Of course, one also has to allow for the possibility that there were no rumors, only hopes… but more about that in a subsequent missive. The Copperhead keeps reminding me that the last time I wrote [...]
Monday is the Memorial Day holiday in the United States. It is a holiday which honors those who gave their lives fighting in America’s wars. Even though I am NOT a fan of post Ronald Reagan America, I cannot help but wonder what kind of world we would live in, even here in Uruguay, without [...]
Judging from the phone calls and conversations I have had, it seems as if some people just don’t understand (or refuse to understand?) plain English. In my previous post, I quoted attorney Mark Teuten as saying, in part, that housebhold goods…”can be brought in free of tax within 6 months of the grant of permanent [...]
For months there has been a discussion regarding rules on bringing household goods into Uruguay duty-free. As usual, there are many conflicting sources–even among the various websites hosted by the Uruguayan government and its consulates in various countries. Attorney Mark Teuten graciously volunteered to do the legal research for us and provide us with a [...]
Very early this past Thursday morning I returned home to Uruguay after a 12 day trip to Panama. I had not been there in four years and was interested to compare it to Uruguay since it had been the prime alternative to moving here. Panama was incredible! It was the most dynamic city I have [...]
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