UR MOVING WHERE?!?!

Geneva has had a cold for a few days and we were told by her Jardin (daycare) that she may have conjunctivitis (pink eye). We kept her home on Wednesday but by Thursday morning it was worse so off to Hospital Britanico (British Hospital) we went. It is located at Av. Italia 2420,...

Our friend Scott told us about a great way to find your way around the bus lines in Montevideo. MontevideoBus is a website based on GoogleMaps that you can use to set your origin, destination and how many blocks from both you are willing to walk. The site will then track the nearby...

We’ve been to restaurants in the area, but a  place called Rocco Resto always met with a bit of reservation.  It claims “We Speak English” in the window and has seemed like a tourist trap to me since first seeing it last year. We were invited by friends who frequent...

I had a big Interior Design presentation yesterday with a client over 5000 miles away. It was perfect. I’m an interior designer by trade. There are a few side projects that are keeping me busy, but my initial love is space planning and kitchen/bath design. Lisa La Nasa Design,...

While planning the move and telling everyone about it, the first question, as the blog name suggests was “You’re moving WHERE??!?!?”, which was quickly followed by “Why Uruguay?” For us, this answer was clear after a long list of considerations.  We...

Our adventure started long before we stepped off the plane at the Carrasco Airport, Uruguay on March 26, 2009. We’ve been planning this move for over a year, with an exploratory trip to MVD in March 2008 (with then-3-month-old Geneva in tow). On that trip, we spent 7 days in...