Mahalo Chicos, Sureno Plata 925 is a little store on the second floor of Punta Caretas Shopping. The items sold are real silver and some fancy rocks and fancy glass. I like to purchase their silver because I hate fancy rocks and glass. I prefer the real thing. The manager informed me that they purchased their silver [...] Read More

Common Phrases in Spanish: (if you live in Uruguay or Argentina, or planing a holiday in either of these two countries, just a warning: the ‘ll’ and the ‘y’  in Spanish is pronounced differently in only those two Latin countries. For instance, instead of pronouncing the ‘ll’ as if your saying ‘yay’ you would say [...] Read More

Chicos, When my other half and I first arrived in Uruguay we lived in a rather spacious home on one of the most ‘busiest’ streets in Montevideo, Uruguay. Artigas. Now we live right off of the same street and a smaller place that is some what secluded from the noise level of cars and pedestrians. Punta Caretas [...] Read More

  Mahalo Chicos, One of the ‘perks’ of living in a small and tranquil country such as Uruguay are lazy Fall days. One can take a stroll at Parque Rodo and people watch, read a book, or even listen to really obnoxious imitation rap music. We live a few blocks from a park named Parque Rodo in Montevideo, [...] Read More

Mahalo Chicos, Midori, my other half, and I took a little walk around our ‘zona’ Punta Caretas. Its was such a wonderful day that we could just not resists. Sooner or later the weather is going to be miserable in Montevideo, Uruguay. So if you are thinking of vacationing during your summer time-May-July- bad news for [...] Read More

Mahalo Chicos, When you go grocery shopping in South America; Brasil, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay to speak of, the cashier clerk would ask you if you have a ‘tarjeta puntos’. This is basically a card that allows you points every time you shop at their store. You have to fill out a really simple form written [...] Read More

Mahalo Chicos, We live right around the corner from a junior high school and every time Midori and I would go for walks there’d be a crowd of teens smoking gawd knows what and drinking a liter of beer. Mind you, this is around 7:30 in the morning on a weekday none the less. Now some [...] Read More