December 6, 2014

Montevideo, Uruguay


We’ve been on the ship for two days, traveling north and the weather continues to get warmer and warmer.  We arrived at Montevideo, Uruguay this morning. 

The port was quite interesting.  The tide was out but it appeared that it had been out for awhile and wasn't coming back in!  There were a number of boats that were aground with no hope of ever being sea worthy again.


Once in town, the architecture was spectacular, but many of the old buildings are in disrepair.  

We stopped for lunch in an old train station that had been converted to food vendors that cooked meat, octopus, and fish over huge open fires.  The smell was wonderful.  We sat at the counter next to a man that had lived in the States for a while and he told us that the story of the building was that the material for the building was on its way to Bolivia and the owner didn’t pay the balance on the delivery, so it was just dropped off in Uruguay.  One of the locals bought it very cheap and built the train station……but there are no trains in Uruguay!   It was very crowded with locals, which told us the food had to be good.   When they brought us the bill for lunch (which was naturally in Spanish), we couldn’t figure out what one of the line items was, so I asked the man next to us.  He quickly answered, “oh, that’s for your fork and knife”.   That’s a new one for us.  But it would have been difficult to eat without them. 

We arrive at our final destination on this leg of the trip tomorrow…Buenos Aires!

 

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