Mate you should be a comedian,sounds like your having a ball.
He IS a Comedian with capital letter and next chapter.......please please pleaseOriginally Posted by judge
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Got up Sunday June 1st at 4:30am after 5hours sleep. Loving this jet lag not.
Spent the morning trawling the net as it ain’t light here until 7:30am. Done a bit of research on Montevideo
Avoided the bidet this morning with the dump>>> shower plan.
Anyway strolled down to breakfast
The young lady down there speaks English and was most impressed I had made the effort to learn my room number on Spanish and offer up a few sentences of Spanish rather than the awkward confrontation we had the morning before until she worked out I wasn’t retarded and didn’t speak much Spanish and she could converse with me in English
Toast ham and eggs a croissant like thing loaded with a passionfruit custard infusion and some juice and I was set to go.
Headed back upstairs grabbed bag and hit the road to explore.
As the bus tour started at 9pm the other end of town my plan was to meet up with it part way around as it took 2.5hours to do the circuit.
Not interested in getting the taxi there as at $49usa to get from airport to hotel 30mins not expecting the 15min trip to be value.
Decided to head off to the Estadio Centenario home stadium of Uruguay NT where Australias WC dream of 2002was dashed and our dreams were kept alive for Aloisi to send us batshit crazy in 2005
Once again set off with no map. Just a rough idea where I was to go. Good hour walk concerned I was heading the wrong way but stayed on course and found it.
First impressions is it is a shithole. Place looks very old and rundown. Makes the Chicken Coop at Southy look like Wembley.
Lot of rubbish left lying around the place which seems to be a common theme in Uruguay. Need a Clean Up Australia day here.
Though they ain’t helped as every street seems to have a dumpster which seems to be the communal whiz bin. Every so often some local who has roots to Gosford comes along and goes scavenging through the thing throwing stuff out and taking bits and pieces with them
As the stadium was locked up took a walk around the perimeter got a few photos etc
Tell you what it must be a bit of a stretch when the local clubs Penarol and Nacional have their classico here. The footpaths are broken up and plenty of stones are easily found for the rival fans to hurl at player one another etc
Anyway unable to find the bus stop for the tour and still having some time headed to the location of the next stop which I had a rough idea where it was as I had seen it earlier. Located at the local shopping centre I made my way there as it serves 2purposes. One the bus stop is there and Two I can find toilets there.
Hasn’t been the easiest thing to do finding a toilet here. Basically I just don’t know where to look. So basically use the toilet before I go anywhere as I have NFI when the next opportunity will be.
Had a 40min wait for the bus arrival so walked the mall. Did see one shop that caught my attention. Store is named TITS.
Was not selling what I was expecting but ladies clothes
Anyway bus arrived and picked me up. 15mins later we were at the first stop. Here I had to get out and pay and then await the bus departure in 30mins. After paying when for a wander around Mercado del Puerto a market area. Being a Sunday the place was full of people with various wares of goods. Had a good browse and jumped on the bus.
Bus then proceeded to take you on tour of Montevideo. Down the good streets and down the bad. Past various old monuments statues etc
Went for 2.5hours. Took plenty of photos and worked out which spots to head back to.
Whilst on the open top bus the temperature plummeted to 12.C and by the time it got back to the shopping centre I just wanted out from the cold wind.
Add in the exposure to diesel fumes FFS nearly every car runs on diesel here and it is filthy diesel smell as well. Sitting in the open top bus you get a good dose of it.
Decided to go get some lunch. Wandered back in the shopping centre and this is where life gets pretty retarded. Now I have spent very little of my US $200 I got upon arrival. I am also having a hard time understanding the pricing here. What is written seems to require an extra zero upon payment which confuses the **** out of me cause it ain’t the base 10 money system we are used to.
Anyway by this stage I am getting confused as to how much money I have and my $u 1000 peso note don’t look like going far. Not wanting to look like a dick unable to meet the bill walked out with nothing. Anyway got back to hotel and checked out value of money. This $U 1000 is worth about Aud$40 add in I had 2more of the suckers in my hidden pouch and I am sitting on $US 120-$140
Being that prices are comparable marginally cheaper than home when you factor in exchange rates well I could have bought 10-15meals
Anyway decided then to get an early dinner. Found a Italian pizza shop 2blocks away and ordered up. Got the Italian as it was the only thing I could read the ingredients of. Ham Cheese Tomato and Pesto
Basically the bloke baked it after putting mozzarella on it. Then pulled it out and layered squares of ham and tomato slices and then threw it back in
No sauce and a bit under cooked compared to back home but for about Aud$20 I had dinner. Whilst waiting the bloke kept feeding me a parmesan garlic bread slice and coke on the house.
Anyway took the thing back to hotel and 3 slices later I was full. Quite nice and tasty.
In the fridge for seconds later on
Anyway still feeling the effects of jet lag pushed through it and stayed up to 8pm before hitting the hay
My LOL moment for today's entry :-D
this is getting ridiculous. I am reading slower so i can saver the moments.
"Every so often some local who has roots to Gosford comes along and goes scavenging through the thing throwing stuff out and taking bits and pieces with them"
Gosford cousins in U.R.Gay. Hahaha.....
hey MFKS is there heaps of gronks playing bongos and shit in uruguay? having a bongo or guitar appears to be the nike Tn of being a south american lad
This thread is already the highlight of the whole World Cup
For The Member:
I have been terribly busy of late and only just stumbled across this thread now.
Reading this has definitely made my week
Take care
Militia
Great thread mfks. You'll be happy to hear that in Santiago you can flush your TP. No bidet encountered (yet).
Did you see the group of 3 Australian female supporters on our flight? Two were average but the other had a pretty top notch rack
I think that was the bird sitting next to me and her 2friends were in front. They were flying through to Sao Paulo
You weren't one of the boys in the Socceroos dressing gowns were you???
No Q Man
Have not seen a bongo let alone a guitar at all
Though the locals are big into the designer brands. The shops are full of up market "Name" gear
Me I have been dressing down wearing jeans and plain t shirts trying to go low key and not stand out so much as a Gringo.
These ****ers though have all the latest Nike designer gear on.
Member, is there a pool at the hotel? Apparently SD was too embarrassed to ask because he knows you're busy.
So, by dressing down are you standing out like a Gringo?
Ah nice work! Nope, those blokes probably got mugged as soon as they got off the plane.
We are a group of 3 blokes all about 30, one has a pretty decent beard. We were sitting in row 21 I think, so just in front of the divider thing halfway along.
This is glorious, Member. Even with our eventual trouncing, I have something to look forward to.
The big guy who was bald and wearing Australia shirt???
nah I think they were sitting a couple rows in front of us. None of us had aus gear on...
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Got up Monday June 2nd at 5:30am after a good nights sleep. Still not impressed with these beyond sparrow fart wake ups.That's thelatest so far I have slept to
Avoided the bidet this morning with the dump>>> shower plan.
Anyway strolled down to breakfast and today decided to try something different. I seem to have been living the last few days on a diet of ham bread cheese eggs tomato orange juice and coca cola so today am gonna shake it up.
Decided to spike the OJ with some Johnny Walker. Good heart starter for the day.
Then on to the grub and dabbled in the muesli. Topped this with a serve of fruit salad and couldn’t find the milk so threw strawberry yoghurt on.
****ing fantastic.
Then onto some of the pastries another OJ chaser of Johnny and I was ready to hit the ground running
A 10minute walk found me down at the local shops where I knew I could get a taxi. I could have got my hotel to call one but feel the urge to do some walking from time to time just to stretch the legs a bit
Anyway get the cab down to Mercado Del Puerto the starting point of the bus tour. When I got there the cabbie and I had some fun.
When he called out the price I opened the wallet up and offered him 1000pesos. From his response I could tell he wasn’t happy.
Assuming that it was gonna cost more I pulled out another 1000pesos.
The bloke wasn’t happy and stormed out the driver’s door and started to head to the passengers door to approach me.
I thought here ẃe go this ****s gonna stab me as he thinks I am shafting him.
I actually had a pile of US$ on me I was about to start offering up when he started saying Cambio Cambio.
At this point I recognised this term as they are currency exchange places.
So at this point I searched in the wallet and found smaller notes.
All of a sudden gracias was heard and he was firing money back to me.
Turns out I was trying to give him way too much and he had issues with giving me change.
FFS Stabbing avoided
Anyway got out and jumped on the next bus 10mins later. Stopped off at Independence Plaza a town square a bit bigger than a football with a big monument in it surrounded by some big old school buildings.
Felt a lot more comfortable today with it being Monday as the streets shops were a hive of activity. Then went for a 2-3km walk down to Uruguay Parliament Houses checked it and then jumped back on the tourist bus.
After about an hour made it to Tres Creuces a site with a giant cross. The area was the original site where 3 Uruguayans were murdered eons ago. It is also the site the pope appeared the first time he came to Uruguay.
That was not so much my purpose. The area has a shopping centre which doubles as a bus terminus. I needed to sort out a bus ticket as tomorrow I was leaving Montevideo for the small sea side town of Colonia to catch a ferry to Buenos Aires.
First bus company who responded to Ingles got my business. About $13Aud for a 2-3hour bus ride through the Uruguayan countryside.
After that ducked upstairs for some lunch. Ordered a chivito the Uruguayan national dish. Basically a hamburger instead of mince a steak fillet. Lettuce tomato boiled egg bacon No beetroot but did have olives capsicum and mayo on a bun.
The thing was fantastic. Was most impressed the thing held together and the bun was such that you didn’t get the bottom bit getting progressively smaller as you ate it. Came with fries and a dessert of a chocolate coated biscuit with caramel filling.
After this ducked out and lo and behold the bus was waiting for me. Took it to the Estadio CentenarĂ*o. The stadium holds a footballing museum of some acclaim. Was absolutely shattered to find the thing had closed as of today for renovation.
Walked off shattered and as I was walking by noticed one of the gates to the Stadium open. Thought **** it why not go in. Anyone stops you plead the ignorant foreigner angle.
Anyway strolled in and no one was about except for a cleaning crew. When they said hello and got back to work out came the camera as I saw this as the green light to make yourself at home.
Took a pile of photos and was just about to head out when 3blokes walked in. The 3blokes looked guilty as they were doing the same thing I had been doing. One of them started speaking Spanish and once I uttered back Ingles the 3of them broke into English.
All 3 were family dad and 2 sons of Uruguayan heritage living in England. Were in Uruguay for catching up with family before heading to Brazil for World Cup.
Anyway we got chatting and struck up a great rapport.
One of them asked me about the E&C Jets shirt I was wearing. I mentioned Heskeytime they started laughing the conversation flowed and nearly 3hours later I was leaving the Estadio Centenario with a pile of photos and great memories of the day I broke in and spent the arvo in the place chatting away to these new amigos.
As I had missed the bus by minutes I walked back to hotel 45mins absolutely buzzing missing the museum was definitely made up for by the entry into the stadium
Settled in for the night with my left over pizza my bottle of Johnny Walker and downloaded copious amounts of porn so that Youporn won’t be far away from banning my IP as they will think I am a leech on their bandwidth
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