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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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Bigger and even more important news!

Posted by southron on March 11th, 2007

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 […]

Well, I done gone and done it…

Posted by southron on October 28th, 2006

It may not be a tough as giving birth, but it sure was a lot of work. The file was created on 22 July 2006, at 11:25:02. The last modification was made this morning (I hope). In just a few days less than 100, The Southron’s Guide to Living in Uruguay has […]

The Southron tackles Celsius (or maybe it tackles him)

Posted by southron on April 29th, 2006

So, in the same spirit that I accepted that the letter Z might be pronounced Zed instead of Zee, I decided to take the metric plunge–so I changed my electronic weather station and every one of my internet weather links to Celsius. I do. however, keep a conversion cheat sheet under the glass on my desktop.

But how the heck do you convert between the two?

Nit pickin’ about little things

Posted by southron on April 17th, 2006

There are other little things that, I'm sure are perfectly normal here, but a little strange to the gringo eyes of the Southron

The Southron and metric nonsense

Posted by southron on April 7th, 2006

Metric paper sizes trip up the Southron.


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