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Share Your Experiences with Exploring Uruguay

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Are you interested in sharing your experiences with Exploring Uruguay? If so, submit your story to us and you could be selected as a guest blogger for the Exploring Uruguay Blog.

Some questions to consider when writing your story:

  • Where are you from originally?
  • What brought you to Uruguay?
  • How long have you been in Uruguay?
  • What part of Uruguay do you live in?
  • What is your favorite thing about living in Uruguay?
  • What advice do you have to share with people considering a move to Uruguay?

We also welcome well-written restaurant reviews, attraction reviews and other articles that would be helpful for our readers. Pictures, especially for restaurant reviews, are helpful. If you have some you'd like us to consider for your article, let us know when you send us your submission.

To submit your story, click here, fill out your contact information and submit your story to us for review.

After we review your submission, we’ll contact you with any questions about your story and let you know if it has been accepted for publication.

The readers of the Exploring Uruguay Blog thank you in advance for your contributions!



Our Expat Family Makes the Front Page of InfoNegocios

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Yesterday our expat family was featured on the front page of InfoNegocios, a Spanish News Magazine. You can see the article on their website.

We wanted to thank all of our readers and the Uruguayan community for all of the kind emails we received yesterday and today. We love living in Uruguay and are happy to share our experiences with you on the Exploring Uruguay Blog.

Here’s a screen shot of the article:
InfoNegocious



To Bidet or Not to Bidet… The Answer is Quite Obvious…

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Another Uruguay blog we follow is, “Wally in Uruguay.”

This Uruguay blog follows Wally and Denise, who are retiring to Uruguay from the States.

We’ve never met Wally or Denise, but through Wally’s Uruguay blog we feel like we know them.

When you visit his Uruguay blog, start from his first post and read through to the present. It follows them purchasing a home (a fixer)… and going through all of the trials and tribulations of renovating a house here in Uruguay.

In a post from a little over a year ago on his Uruguay blog, Wally touched on a topic that I never thought I’d want to write about until now. But he did such a great job on the topic that I’m going to recommend you read it instead of me writing another blog on the topic, Ode to Bidet.

Wally kind of reminds me of my Uncle Dave… He’s full of energy, ready to take on anything head on, quite funny… and sometimes a little clueless (as you can read on his latest post, Denise’s Special Day).

If you are considering retiring to Uruguay, Wally’s Uruguay blog is full of invaluable information… from hiring contractors and dealing with them, to a lot of “do it yourself” work around the house.

If we buy property in Uruguay after the new baby is here, we’ll be referencing Wally’s Uruguay blog on a regular basis. Or, if you just want a neat story to follow, his Uruguay blog provides that as well.

We’re Having a Baby In Uruguay!

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Yep, we’re having a baby in Uruguay! Zoë is no longer going to be an only child… she’s going to make such a great big sister.

We officially got word from the doctor today that everything looks good and our little one is expected around February 6, 2010. That means I’m nine weeks along. We couldn’t be happier. We definitely planned on having another baby in the future, but it looks like the future is coming faster than expected.

So after we told our families, there was a common question among them…  “Are you going to come back to San Diego to have your baby?”

Our answer: “Why would we do that?  Uruguay has great hospitals and wonderful medical care. We live here… Uruguay is our home for now, so we plan to have our baby here.”

After talking with some friends that had a baby in Uruguay, we’ve decided to look into having it at Hospital Británico (the British Hospital in Uruguay). The technology and service level is top notch, and we’ve been referred to a Doctor that speaks excellent English.

We’ve found that there isn’t much information available online about what to expect when having a baby in Uruguay. We were looking at into buying into a Uruguayan Hospital’s Insurance Plan. We still are… but being pregnant is considered a pre-existing condition. That means we’ll be paying all pregnancy related expenses from doctor’s visits to tests to the delivery out of pocket.

We’ll also be journaling about our experiences with pregnancy and having a baby in Uruguay. How that benefits you is… After our little one is born, we’ll be putting everything into an eBook that will hopefully make it easier for other expatriate families to navigate the process of having a baby in Uruguay. And of course, we’ll have updates here on our Uruguay blog!

Brian, Chrystal & Zoë

Check Out This Uruguay Blog

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When we were preparing to move to Montevideo, we starting reading several Uruguay blogs. One Uruguay blog we came across shortly before the move was http://www.urmovingwhere.com.

Brad and Lisa, a couple a little bit older than us who have a daughter just five months older than Zoë, Geneva, started the blog after they moved to Uruguay. We traded emails with them several times before our move to Montevideo, and keep in contact with them now that we’re living in Uruguay. Zoë and Geneva love to play together.

Picture of Zoë and Geneva enjoying a homemade taco dinner

If you like our Uruguay blog, we thought you might be interested in learning about their experiences in Montevideo. Their life here is just a bit different from ours and may be able to give you another perspective on life in Uruguay.

Here are a few of the differences between our families:

  1. They’re from Minnesota; we’re from Southern California
  2. We live in an apartment; they live in a house.
  3. Geneva attends a jardin (pre-school); Zoë stays home with us.
  4. They work more typical jobs remotely; we operate a few of our own businesses part time.
    Brad does travel insurance, so if you are in need be sure to chat with him; Click here to visit his main website or Click here to see his insurance comparison engine.
    Lisa is an interior designer and does it remotely; Click here to visit her website.
  5. Brad is a Vegetarian (and we know there are a lot of you out there that may be wondering what it’s like to live in Uruguay, where Beef is the #1 GDP).
  6. They’ve lived in Uruguay about two months longer than us.

We hope you like Brad and Lisa’s Uruguay Blog!