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Day 14: The long trip home

Previous South American vacation posts can be found here: My concerns for travel to South America A Buenos Apartment Veg Friendly Dining in Buenos Aires Day 1: Dining at Quimbombo Day 2: Late late meals Day 3: Picnic Day 4: Bio Day 5: Mimosas & Mexican Day trip to Colonia, Uruguay Day 6: Parrilla time Day 7: Bye Bye Buenos Day 8: En Punta Del Este, Uruguay Day 9 – 13: The Hotel L’Auberge Day 10: Day trip to town And now, for the final installment… We had 3 alarms set for Tuesday morning.  My… Read more >

April 28, 2012 big salad, quinoa, Starbucks, Read more >

Day 10: Day trip to town

Due to poor weather conditions, we didn’t have much desire to venture away from our hotel in Uruguay.  However, we did make it into town one day.   We walked there (tricked into thinking it was just a stroll down the beach) and it was drizzling nearly the entire time.  But at least we got to see Punta Del Este’s main attraction. Hand in the sand. Our lunch selection was based on two things: (1) did they have seating inside? and (2) did they have coffee? And so we found ourselves at Boca Chica Express…. Read more >

April 16, 2012 big salad, eggs, waffles Read more >

Welcome to 5 stars

  At first glance, the L’Auberge hotel looks rustic.  But once you tour the place, you start to notice it’s all a facade.    With satellite TV (not that I wanted to watch the Kardashians on vacation) and high tech gym equipment (in the tower’s top floor) and multiple places to lounge around outside while connected to the hotel’s (free) wi-fi…I’d say it was the perfect balance of old and new for a relaxing vacation.   Kyle and I went to the gym 4 of the 7 days we were there.  Not bad! We ordered… Read more >

March 31, 2012 cereal, chocolate, granola, tea, waffles Read more >

Day 8: En Punta

Bienvenidos a la playa!   In spite of PLUNA Airlines’ complete disregard for flight times, we landed in Punta Del Este, Uruguay in good spirits, ready to start the second leg of our December vacation. I was so into this book, I didn’t even care that our flight was an hour behind schedule.  I also didn’t even notice Kyle take this picture with his iPad.  Now that’s a good book (Girl in Translation).  So.  A bit about why we chose Uruguay.  Everyone describes Punta Del Este as “the Saint-Tropez of South America” which basically means… Read more >

March 26, 2012 potatoes Read more >

Day trip to Colonia

For the first time on our vacation we had to set the alarm. By 7 am we were at the sea port, waiting to board the Buquebus for a quick day trip to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.  We went to buy tickets the previous day, but failed to remember our passports.  Dumb.  Obviously you need to know your passport number to buy tickets (duh, it’s a different country), but having just done the whole name change thing, I had a new passport and couldn’t even tell you the first digit.  Not that I ever memorized… Read more >

February 29, 2012 Uncategorized Read more >