March 3, Montevideo, Uruguay

So we took a bus trip today to see the highlights of the city and the large Juanico Winery. It was determined to rain all day, so we didn't spend much time at all at our photo ops. This building has an interesting story. It was originally intended to be a hotel, but the residents hated it. It became condominiums instead. The builder had a brother who built a similar building across the river in Buenos Aires. Both were to have lighthouses on top, and the lights were too touch in the middle of the river, which, if I understand, is 170 miles wide. It's too far! They didn't take into account the curvature of the earth, and the buildings are not in eyesight to each other. Fortunately as time had gone on, the Montevideons have come to love the building. Another famous landmark is the telecommunications building with a top that looks like a sail. As I said, it rained all day. So when we arrived at the winery and were on our way through the very extensi...