GOING TO PUNTE DEL ESTE
The tour to Punte del Este, 160 kilometers from Montevideo was an all day 12 hour tour. Punte del Este is a very upscale beach resort where the Plata river joins the Atlantic Ocean. Today I will show photographs of the first part of the trip. We drove close to the Plata riverside for most of the way past well kept beaches and sand dunes which reminded me of the dunes by the North Sea near Haarlem, Netherlands.
We stopped at the seaside resort town of Piriapolis where the bus climbe a 500 foot hill with a marvelous view of the town and the Plata River.
And then we went on to the seaside private home and museum of Uguguay’s most famous artist, Carlos Paez Vilaro, who was pals with Picasso, De Chico, Dali, Warhol and Albert Schweitzer according to information at his house. He built his house himself modeled on Gaudi’s buildings in Barcelona. He is no longer alive, but someone has kept his memory very much alive with this house/museum with a $15 entry fee and copies of his work for sale in every other room. But slick as this presentation is, you judge his art for yourself, what he has created is colorful and fascinating and well worth visiting.
On this trip, and all over Montevideo if you look for it, the primary purpose of visitors seems to be to get selfies taken in front of every spectacular building. I noticed the same thing in Barcelona when I visited there a few years ago. At the center of every view or beautiful place is someone taking a selfie, either themselves or by a friend, the point being that it is the self being there is central to the photo.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 
you got to be kidding me! That is NOT a selfie. It is a photo of a person taking someone’s photo, not of themselves. What were you thinking?