Uruguay: Puzzling Things
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Uruguay Dreaming lists “Things I Find Puzzling About Uruguay,” in which he does not mean to be impolite, but rather finds difficult to understand.
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Uruguay Dreaming lists “Things I Find Puzzling About Uruguay,” in which he does not mean to be impolite, but rather finds difficult to understand.
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Blogger 'stwartmendez' from La Tinta del Ocio [es] highlights the success of Costa Rican cyclist Andrey Amador who is participating in Giro d'Italia, the Tour of Italy cycling race. Amador came in third in the twelfth stage and first in the fourteenth stage. The blogger attributes this success to the athlete's discipline and wishes other national athletes would emulate his attitude.
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Thanks for the link to the UruguayDreaming site. It was a great article and there is a counterpart in which the Brazilian author shares his list of the 10 things he loves about Montevideo.
http://uruguaydreaming.com/2007/06/05/ten-things-i-love-about-montevideo/
The blog has a resource link with a lot of hard to find information about Uruguay as well as a large number of essays/observations about food, culture, immigration process, real estate, crime,cost of living, etc. There are even great sections with related vocabulary.