Uruguayan blues

Lovely small items and antiques at the Plaza Matíz in Montevideo.






Ceramic tiles, tales of past grandeour.







Object by the Uruguayan painter José Gurvich.
More famous is Joaquín Torres García who painted the Latin American continent upside down.

The Uruguayan journalist and writer Eduardo Galeano wrote Las venas Abiertas de Latino America (The Open veins of Latin America), the best book on the continent I ever read.

South Atlantic waters.. Porteños regard Uruguay as a dull province of Argentina and the capital as a sad and melancholic city, but Montevideo has miles and miles of lovely beaches, which Buenos Aires hasn´t.




Beauty across Rio de la Plata.







La libertad en el arte implica aventura.
La aventura implica responsibilidad.
Libertad sin responsabilidad es peligro de desorientación.
Jose Gurvich





Timeout at the beach.







I like the large beers, but this one is not the worlds best..











The car park of Montevideo is old. American 50s style Fords and Cadillacs and Volkswagen gone out of production.

Mercado del Puerto with the English clock.

Meats in Mercado del Puerto.







Mate and thermos. Everywhere and at any time I spot mate-sipping argentinians and uruguayans.






A ladies pistol or an old Mausser, anyone? Plaza Matríz, Old Town.






Candombe music and drums, Brazilian influence.







Fountain of locks. Legend says that if you write your name and the name of your lover on a padlock and hang it on the fountain, you will allways be together and you will allways return together to the fountain.


Montevideo wasn´t that nice..






Fresh goose in the Feria de Tristan Narvaja.







Uruguay's flag. Buenos Aires in the horizon.







Cartonero, paper collector at work. Working horses still at use.







Plaza Matríz, Old Town. Sunset.








Herbs. Cure everything and make you slim too.. mix your own blend for the perfect mate.










Los ojos al servicio del alma:
ver, sentir y comprender,
con el alma a través de los sentidos.
José Gurvich

This sweet little fella got his hand on 100 of my Uruguayan pesos. In return I got a very musky perfume and a tape with tangotunes copied from the radio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZVKMjjBiHY