Thursday, September 17, 2015
Sept 17: world travelor
got to love the european world traveler bringing their Mercedes tank just in case
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Sept 9: Elevator with Luis operating
one of the nicest fellows working the "ascensores" in my building
Sept 9: typical elevator system in Uruguay and Argentins
This is in my building and requires two people full time to operate. The monthly fees to the building's residents are quite healthy I am sure. It is part of the country's socialistic full employment culture.
Sept 8: Local Beer Tasting Event
It is amazing for a country of 3.4million, that Uruguay should have an artisan beer industry. My tastes are limited to IPAs with lots of hoppiness. While it was fun tasting pilsners, porters, stouts and IPA; I wasnt that taken with the beer here.
Sept 6: Looking back toward Pocitos.
My apartment is near the point. It was such a beautiful day, I walked for three hours to Carrasco. That is where the wealthier folks with families live
Sept 3: Local Basketball
I saw a really competitive game between these two clubs. Basketball is popular here after soccer. My first day in Montevideo I came across this young American who had played for a Division 1 college basketball team Furman College. He was now living day to day down here in Montevideo hoping to get onto one of these clubs, teaching English and spinning records in the interim.
Sept 2: Renewable Energy?
This professional knife sharpner uses his bike's rear wheel to run a sharpening stone. He sits on the bike seat in reverse, peddles the bikes rear tire, and sharpens the blade while cycling the stationary bike. It looked to me the bike doubles for a regular transportation bike.
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Friday, August 28, 2015
Aug 26: voted best restaurant in Montevideo
Only 20% of Uruguayans eat here. Most are outsiders like Brazilians or rest of the world.
When I looked on Google for an Indian restaurant, this place came up: Tandory. It is a good Indian name I would imagine. In America if I were to go to a restaurant name Tandory and discover no Indian food there, I would wonder why they named the restaurant Tandory. This is another example of a Uruguayan cultural difference.
I asked the waitress why. She said because it is an exotic name and the food there is relatively exotic to Uruguayan standards (picture Asado and mash potatos). Actually the food there was a fusion multiethnic menu.
Aug 25: local restaurant
where weekly ex-pat meetings are held. Restaurant meals are around $12 USD for an Executive plate special. For example, you might get a soup appetizer, glass of house wine, a main plate (ie raviolis) and desert.
Aug 25: original British Hospital
The newer version lurks behind. My guess is that the Uruguayans named the private hospital as the British Hosp because it is the best care available, as opposed to the public hospitals that most everyone else goes.
Aug 25: British Hospital
Here is a cultural nuance. The name of places v. what is actually there. The Uruguayans have the British Hospital. There is not one Brit who works there from what I could tell. There might be an odd person who speaks English. I went to the British Hospital twice: once for a dermatology appt and once for a bad case of bronchitis. Only the doctors spoke some English.
Of the 5 weeks I have been in Uruguay, I have been ill 3 of those weeks so far. I still havent fully recovered from the bronchitis going on week #3.
Aug 24: Agricola Mercado brewery
I had a couple pints of beer with these 4th year med students celebrating after taking end of semester tests.
Aug 24: Agricola Mercado
What use to be a huge ag market, was renovated into a kind of upscale indoor mall
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