Author: Ella
Who would want to visit…
Post by Ella the Japanese Gardens in Buenos Aires? Beats me, but we did. Underwhelming. We had spent an interesting couple of hours at the Eva Peron museum (Grubb will post on that) and thought walking around some gardens would be a nice change. Shoulda kept on going to the botanical gardens. We did stop…
View from our balcony
Post by Ella Not quite the same as the view from our Palacio Salvo 11th floor apartment in Montevideo.
Argentinian moolah
Post by Ella I did an overlong post on cash in Argentina way back at the beginning of our trip. But perhaps you are curious about what the pesos look like. There are also 100 and 500 peso notes. But we didn’t have any. ARS $1000 is in the ballpark of US $1.00. Carrying around…
Wow, just wow
Last night we had dinner at Fogon Asado, a Michelin recommended restaurant in Buenos Aires. Not being fancy diners, we weren’t sure what to expect. We had a Chef’s counter experience. There were perhaps 20 people around the counter, 4 chefs continually rotating around, doing the dance of explaining, serving, cooking. Our first drink was…
Where are we now?
Post by Ella We’ve come full circle. Or maybe it was more of a zig zag. Buenos Aires. We ferried from Montevideo to Buenos Aires yesterday on the 11:00 am direct ferry. Direct ferries only run a few times a day. For the other ferries, you are put on a bus and driven to Colonia…
Uruguayan photo roundup
Photos we didn’t post (or maybe we did and forgot) that could be of some interest to someone somewhere. Streets and buildings of Montevideo /
The floral theme
Gives a ‘20s in Paris feel to the place. The place was built in 1925. Palacio Salvo. Our apartment in Montevideo.
All the Brazilians
Post by Ella For our excursion to Punte del Este on Sunday, we shared the bus (kinda of a medium sized bus with lumpy seats) with 10 Brazilians and one Equadorian. Being the only non-Spanish, non-Portuguese speakers, we were invited to sit up front so Marcella, our guide, could speak to us in English without…
What’s with all the Peruvian food in Uruguay?
Post by Ella. I don’t know but it sure is good. We sat down for lunch at Zazu in Punta del Este. I’m thinking, oh good, I’ll try some Uruguayan dish I haven’t yet had. When the waiter started pointing out all the Peruvian dishes, I couldn’t resist. Nor could Grubb. We see these signs…