Archive for the 'Money' Category

Renewing our Temporary Visitor Permits

Renewing our Tempora...

The time had come to renew our temporary visitor’s permits for Uruguay.  Some people call these a visitor’s visa, but they are not technically visas. Uruguay gives you 90 days and then you have to leave the country and re-enter to extend your permit. We knew about this...
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July 5th, 2009
Posted by Lisa La Nasa

Feria Vegetables...

There’s been recent talk in the Uruguay blog community about cost of food and I agree wholeheartedly with everything that has been said. Go to the many the ferias around town for great, inexpensive produce, fish, eggs and cheese.  I might add, go to any of the ferias outside...
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July 1st, 2009
Posted by Lisa La Nasa

“Preferimos Visa”

“Preferimos Vi...

While there are many places that accept credit cards here in Montevideo, you will often see signs like this one:  Visa  pretty much has the market  cornered.  All of the locations that take credit cards accept Visa.  Probably about half of those also accept Mastercard.  I...
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April 29th, 2009
Posted by Lisa La Nasa

A Trip to the Supermercado

A Trip to the Superm...

I just went to the grocery store this afternoon. We’re always walking so I can’t buy too much each time I go to the store. I tend to go there almost every day for a little something but it’s two blocks away from us, so not a big deal. Today I wanted to have a...
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April 26th, 2009
Posted by Lisa La Nasa

Our Little House

Our Little House...

So today was the big day. We got the keys to the house. Easy enough. Sign some papers hand over the money and in return, a set a keys. Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that in Uruguay. All in all, really it’s not that hard, just very time consuming. The papers are...
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April 21st, 2009
Posted by Lisa La Nasa

Housing – Part...

Well, our offer on the little house was accepted. We had a meeting a week ago with the owner and both Inmobiliarios (rental agents) to sign preliminary paperwork, sort of an agreement to agree/letter of intent with the basic terms and information spelled out. Now for the details...
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April 15th, 2009
Posted by Lisa La Nasa

The Quest for Housin...

The hotel that we are staying in is great.  It is a long-term stay hotel and we have a month booked. It is still a hotel, though, and it makes it difficult when a baby is sleeping and a husband is working and needing to make phone calls all in the same space.   We’ve been...
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April 3rd, 2009
Posted by Lisa La Nasa