{OH BABY, THE PLACES YOU GO!} PIRIAPOLIS | FOUNDING FATHERS, CASTLES AND SUNSETS

The very last day of the Uruguayan trip, we took a city tour of Piriapolis. I´m mostly against city tours because they are usually a bus ride with few stops along the way and they give you no time to explore and take good photos. (I´m totally against taking pictures from the car!). Since walking long distances is a bit hard for my mom and her bad knee, I decided to take the city tour. Piriápolis founding father is Francisco Piria and he had a pupil who was an alchemist and templar. His name was Humberto Pittamiglio. He built the castle in 1956. If you stand on the patio and point your digital camera up, the LCD screen will purple lines. Those are energy lines and the castle was built there on purpose because of the high amount of energy surrounding the place. He was an alchemist, after all.

We also visited the Pan de Azucar, a rocky hill with a camping site on its base. There´s a small zoo but I didn´t like it because the poor animals looked sad inside their cages. 

The bull is a popular stop. Going up 33 steps you reach a sort of balcony where this bull stands and rumor has it that if you touch a certain anatomical region,  it brings you luck. So, you can imagine that everybody were making jokes about it and taking pictures of the others touching the bull´s "jewels". LOL!

The very last stop of this city tour was Piriápolis highest top, the Cerro San Antonio. As you keep riding up on the bus, you can find prettier and prettier houses on the sides of this rocky formation. It´s a spiral that takes you up to the top and once you reach it, there are some souvenirs shops, a small (very small) church and you have spectacular views of Piriapolis and its four beaches. It´s a beautiful scenario in front of your eyes.
This is my very last sunset in Piriápolis. My hotel room has a terrace/balcony with a small table and patio chairs. It was lovely to sit down there during the magical hour with a light cardigan on, taking in the prettiness and the orange colors of the sunset as the day was coming to an end.
We had some pretty perfect sunsets during our stay in Uruguay.
After five posts, I´m done with the Piriápolis photos. Next Thursday, I´m starting with the Cabo Polonio sets (I think there are gonna be 3 sets). Stay tuned! ♥

{HISTORIAS DE NEW YORK} AL SUR DE LA ISLA, PART III

The last set of my Downtown visit. 

Have you ever seen the movie Hitch? Well, many of the scenes from the movie were filmed right there. The Marina is splendid!! It´s such a neat view: you walk by tall buildings and then, all of the sudden, there´s a huge opening and there it is, the marina! Laid back restaurants, a wide boardwalk and many white sailboats are part of it. It´s a very crowded place. Tourists taking pictures of pretty much everything, young guys on their bycicles or roller blades, middle aged women dressed with implecable suits and high heels, older ladies walking their dogs, nannies and babies and toddlers everywhere!

You can check out the other sets clicking on Part 1 and Part 2.

{HISTORIAS DE NEW YORK} TULIPANES PRIMAVERALES

One knows for sure that spring is around when the Central Park tulips are in full bloom. 

It might still be chilly out and one might need to wear a warm jacket but when you walk around the curvy paths at the park and your eyes find the huge patchs of red, pink and purple tulips, you know spring is finally there.

That cloudy Sunday I got to do something I never do: I fed the pigeons. You see, I´m afraid of birds (all kinds of them!) so I stay away from them all the time. That afternoon, Milly, Grace and myself were eating Argentine white bread ham and cheese sandwiches and alfajores de maizena and these birds kept coming around  looking for bread crumbs so I gathered some and gave them to the birds. They ate them happily and stayed a bit longer in case there were more and then, they were off...

{OH BABY, THE PLACES YOU GO!} PIRIAPOLIS | CASAS Y EDIFICIOS EN COLORES PASTEL

Piriapolis, vacaciones esperadas {Part 1}, click right here.

Colores sobre el agua {Part 2}, click right here.

... In sunny Piriapolis not only the fancy boats and colorful fishing boats were very photogenic...

... the houses, cute little cottages and tall buildings were painted in the most amazing colors! Light pink, seafoam, soft lavander, lemon yellow, baby blue, pearly gray were some of them. And the water sported different shades of blue and green all day long!

{Historias de New York} Al sur de la isla, parte 2

{This is the second part of the Downtown set. If you missed the first entry, you can check it out here.}

I visited the Financial District and since it was Sunday every single bank and exchange house was closed but you could still find the oh-so-out-of-place guy in a suit walking around. It was a bit odd, considering it was a Sunday afternoon. 

We walked up to Trinity Church, the oldest church in Manhattan. It´s so neat. The stone is a particular pinkish color and the contrast between this old gothic construction and the modern, tall buildings is so evident. But still if you look at it, it seems like these tall glassy skyscrapers form a tight circle around the old church protecting it from the outside world. 

The church yard is a graveyard and the tombs are so ancient! Some of the stones were broken or chipped but most of them were intact.

{OH BABY, THE PLACES YOU GO!} PIRIAPOLIS | COLORES SOBRE EL AGUA

{If you missed the first post, you can check it out clicking right here!}

It took me 5 days to go through the 239 photos from Uruguay and editing the ones I like the most. I was able to pick 101 images so I divided them in 10 sets of 10 photos each meaning 10 posts about my Uruguayan trip. Which means that by the time I´m done with those posts it will be time for my next vacation! LOL! 

I´ve been having some issues with my mom. The mother/daughter relation is burnt out... especially because I am the "mother" and she is the "daughter" in the relation. It´s always been. It´ll always be. But, at the moment, I´m sick of it so editing this huge amount of pictures helped me take my mind off the current issue. 

So, as I said before, Piriapolis is by the water and it has a really big harbor with lots of boats, big and small, white and colorful, fancy and ordinary. Many of them are white sailboats with red or royal blue sails. But there are also many fishing boats and those are the funny ones to take photos of because they are bright red, organge, blue and they have vibrant yellow and orange flags. 

While walking down the harbor, I noticed a sealion swimming around the smaller fishing boats and wondered what it was doing there. I mean, the place was very crowded but then I understood: the fishmen fed the sealion with small pieces of fish they wouldn´t be able to sell. So, of course it was going to be there! Free food!!