Is the old institution of the bus fare collector men dissappearing? Montevideo’s buses have more busdriver-fare collector than it used to. It might be a matter of costs, but the truth is that bus fare is pretty higher than other places in Latin America.

Why is it that on weekend days the streets of Montevideo look so desert? Except for the ‘mercado del puerto’ and some zones of the 18 de julio avenue, there’s very few people in the streets. Could it be the cold weather?

The Parque Rodó is slowly decaying. Their 60s era games are almost empty. And although the cold weather and today’s rain doesn’t help, the truth is that it was sad to look at all those empty seats in the games. It took only a couple of people to jump in one of them to make them work. The good thing is I got to take a couple of pictures.

Ok. So, now it’s the turn of my ride around Ciudad Vieja (old town) -actually, my hotel is a couple of blocks away- which has become the center of Montevideo’s night life. And tomorrow I will go the Tristan Narvaja fair, a classic.

Something I have noticed: everywhere, newspapers and maganzines, you can find a note about the anniversary of the “uruguayan Gardel”. Is it so important where was he born? At the end, when the man decided to sing a tango to a city, he picked Buenos Aires, so…
Jokes aside, I think it’s an interesting topic to discuss in further entries, since I run into many publications in newspapers and books -there is one in the newspaper El Pais that I will surely reproduce here soon- that vehemently seek to reaffirm the tacuaremboense identity of Gardel. Interesting.