Month: April 2024

Post by Grubb Last night I was sitting out on our AirBnB porch recovering from our meat lovers feast, when I heard a large truck grinding its way up the street. It had the bulky solidity of a garbage-hauling beast. Every thirty feet it came to a stop. I thought for garbage collection it’s not…

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…

Post by Grubb Our last few days in Buenos Aires will be spent in the Palermo district. Similar to the upper east side in Manhattan, it’s more upscale than the Recoleta district that we stayed in four weeks ago. Venturing out on our first exploration of the neighborhood it seemed we passed restaurants and cafes…

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…

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 /

Gives a ‘20s in Paris feel to the place. The place was built in 1925. Palacio Salvo. Our apartment in Montevideo.

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…

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…

There is an island off the coast across from Punta del Este that is home to one of the largest preserves of sea lions in the world. But I guess when you can have your own personal chefs slicing up fresh food for you, you might sneak away from your island home and dart off…

Post by Grubb. On our way to Punta del Este yesterday, we visited a point where the Rio de la Plata merged into the Atlantic. Poking up into the skyline were a meteorological tower and a church. I thought they made a nice balance.

Post by Grubb There’s a large sculpture off the beach at Punta del Este of four fingers upthrust from the ground. It’s by a Chilean artist, Mario Irarrázabal, who says he is enthralled by the forces of nature. I wanted to capture a quick shot of the fingers as we were returning to our ride,…

Post by Grubb The final stop on our Sunday trek was Casapueblo down the road from Punta del Este. This jerrybuilt meringue of a house decorates the cliffs that fall from a small jut of land that pokes into the Atlantic. It began being constructed in the late 1950s by Carlos Páez Vilaró and was…

Post by Ella On Sunday, we took a jaunt to Punta del Este, a large seaside resort. We walked on a beach, rode a wavy bridge, saw the largest mountain in Uruguay, learned a little about the current political landscape, watched a few sea lions cavort, admired a giant hand sculpture, strolled a seaside resort,…

Post by Ella There is a lot of overlap between Argentinian and Uruguayan food. Both are heavily beef based. In Uruguay at least, all cattle are grass fed.  One dish that originated in Uruguay is the pamplona. Made of deboned chicken or pork, rolled and stuffed with cheese, ham, sweet pepper and sometimes olives, then…

Post by Ella A well behaved rally on Plaza Indepencia. Along with simmering sunsets viewed from our 11th story AirBnB.