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Canelón Chico - My friends at Pisano offered to set us up for another tasting at a nearby winery. We’d originally planned on continuing on with our driver, Daniel, to tour a little along the southern cost of Uruguay, and then later into Montevideo. But the weather was quite rainy, visibility was limited, and this […]

Progreso - On Tuesday, we’d planned a day around a visit to my friends’ winery, Pisano. Since we figured on drinking a bit, it was a little on the drizzly side, and Uruguayan wineries, like those in many areas, tend to be down small roads, we decided to hire a driver to take us around […]

Montevideo - We had a thoroughly uneventful bus ride from Colonia del Sacramento to Montevideo, the capitol of Uruguay. My friends at the Pisano winery that we were planning on visiting on Tuesday had set us up at the modern, boutique hotel, Cala di Volpe. A little pricey normally, but with our “corporate rate” that […]

Colonia del Sacramento - It’s not really forgotten, it’s more frozen in time. Colonia is an old colonial port town in Uruguay, and our first stop after crossing the river via ferry. Truthfully, it’s sort of the Uruguayan equivalent of “colonial Williamsburg” or something of that sort. Its one real claim to fame is that […]

Buenos Aires - Sunday was a day to continue playing tourist, and we planned on an afternoon in San Telmo at the famed antiques fair. The normally wide open Plaza Dorego is turned into a maze of booths hawking old glass, silver, jewelry, housewares, stamps, coins, and weapons. If it’s an antique and collectible, it’s […]

Buenos Aires - Friday was a day of wandering. Maureen wanted to see the Recoleta Cementerio, so we started there and spent a good amount of time wandering up and down the pathways. It was apparently maid service day - an inordinate number of crypts were open, and scattered throughout the cemetery were buckets of […]

Buenos Aires - Jet lag apparently hit home for Maureen and she didn’t arise until late morning yesterday, by which time I was in class. We hooked up in the afternoon and took a wander into Palermo “Hollywood”, the fun-trendy area of Palermo. After a bit of wandering, neither of us having done much in […]

Buenos Aires - My friend Maureen arrived from California for a week or so’s visit. Had a quick breakfast of my favorite eggs with vinegar sauce and then she settled into her hotel for a short nap. As an introduction, we did a major walk along Santa Fé’s shopping district and then up through the […]