Montevideo is Lovely

[RPGPundit]

Montevideo is an awesome place to visit. The city has such character, and its wonderfully pleasant. There's no place in South America that's as friendly, safe, and quaint as Montevideo (plus you're just a ferry ride away from Buenos Aires, so you can kill two birds with one stone; Montevideo is cheaper though).  So if any of you loyal readers are thinking of taking a vacation this year (especially those of you up north who want to get away from the winter), strongly consider a trip to Uruguay.  You'll have a built in tour guide with yours truly, and there's lots of gaming to be had.

Anyways, today I took a leisurely walk down my neighbourhood (El Cordon) and then a quick cab ride to the old city (Ciudad Vieja), where I had some excellent muttar paneer at Malakas, then smoked my pipe and walked around the old city before settling into the Cafe Irazu for a smoke and an iced mocha.

One architect once commented that Montevideo is the "only ruined city to still be fully inhabited". I wouldn't go that far, but I would say that the rustic architecture is one of the things that gives this city so much charm. You won't find as much old-style charm in Buenos Aires, which made the mistake of modernizing the hell out of itself in the last decade. Through the strange fortunes of economic crisis, Montevideo didn't tear down all its old buildings and as such has a much more classic feel to it.

That, and the people, combine to make Montevideo a wonderfully unusual place to live. You see people as you walk down the street, sitting around chatting, taking leisurly strolls of their own. Today, one old man was walking through the streets of my neighbourhood playing a carnival beat on a drum, for no apparent reason. Then there are the street vendors, the hippies with their guitars, and the schoolgirls... ah, the schoolgirls. May Jeebus bless the pervert who invented the high school girl's uniform.

RPGPundit October 20th 2005

(ps. for the original post, with pictures, look here)

[flyingmice]

Actually, that first picture, if you took out the palm tree, looks like Boston.

-clash

[mattormeg]

I'm glad that I read this thread - Montevideo does sound quite nice.
What's funny is that I originally read the title as "Montevideo is Lonely".