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Summer In Uruguay

Richard Cummings

summer-in-uruguayIf you read about my arrival in Uruguay, you know that I was greeted by warm people and cold weather. This ran counter to all my dim intuition which says travel south, get warmer. Well, thankfully, over time, the weather changes. Even better, the people don’t.

I would not like to be a weatherman. Everybody claims to be an expert in your field. I would not like it if I was an accountant and everybody told me that my credits and debits are in the wrong columns. But if I were an accountant, I would probably be right most of the time. Weatherman are so often wrong. Thus, people are compelled to prognosticate.

The common prognostication was this:

“We had such a long, cold winter that the summer is going to be equally long and very hot.”

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Living In Uruguay: Introduction

Richard Cummings

Living In UruguayHello and welcome to the Living in Uruguay section of my site.

A while back, I decided to take some time away from the corporate workplace and travel to Uruguay, South America. My decision to travel to Uruguay, instead of other South American countries, was as much by chance as anything else (as you can read in my post “Why Choose Uruguay?“.)

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A One Day Trip to Colonia, Uruguay

Richard Cummings

visit-colonio-uruguayMy Uruguayan friend Vicky and I took a trip to Colonia, Uruguay last week.

Colonia is town situated along the border between Argentina and Uruguay.  Most folks pass through here on their short journey to Buenos Aires (the quick boat gets you there in just an hour).  It’s well worth it to take the time to visit Colonia rather than just passing through.

Colonia is a strong mix of Spanish and Portuguese history.  The two empires fought endlessly over Colonia like she was a woman neither could live without.

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