It was a wonderful weekend in Montevideo! Sun was so strong, while napping by the water in Rambla I acutally got a tan--well there is very little ozone cap left above us and I keep forgetting putting sunblock....
I woke up and went to Parque Rodo fair first, it is basically a big openair market, people selling cheap clothes (probably made in Brasil) and some eco-farmers were present, selling really nasty looking organic sweet potatoes at outrageous prices. These days in order to save the world, one needs to be really rich it seems.
I was dreaming about a real brunch with my girlfriends all morning: gossip, lox & bagels and NYTimes magazine at hand. None are available in Montevideo. (I miss you girls sooooooo much!)
Nico and I had a great lunch at the Nautilius Yacht Club (nothing fancy, very nice place/no attitude) in Punta Carretas, a shishy neighborhood on the eastern part of the city. As usual, we had meat!I need to stop eating those juciy delish steaks, but it is almost impossible to do so, not only because they are so good, because they are the guaranteed good item in the menu (I am still experimenting with the uruguayan cuisine).
Going back home after a hallucinating sunset was really difficult, but had to go back and write my book. I ended up watching Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp was the only thing worth looking.
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