I used to be that person. The one dragging a 28-inch suitcase through cobblestone streets in Montevideo, cursing every pothole ( which is all of them ). Two weeks later I switched to carry-on only and never went back. Here is the thing nobody tells you about carry-on travel: it is not
I went back to Italy last summer after almost three years away. Not a vacation. Not a family emergency. I just needed to see if the country I grew up in was still the one I remembered, or if I had been romanticizing it from 10,000 kilometers away the
I have driven the entire coast of Uruguay more times than I can count. Montevideo to Punta del Este. Punta to La Paloma. All the way to Chuy. And back. Every single time, something went sideways that could have been avoided. Here are three lessons I learned the hard way
Six years in Montevideo. One flight back to Italy. I thought I knew what to expect. I was wrong. I left Seravezza Pozzi — small city in Toscana, northwest Italy — in 2014. The plan was two years abroad. Then the world had other ideas, I met someone, found a routine, and
I drove to José Ignacio on a random Tuesday because someone at a feria told me the sunset there was worth the trip. They undersold it. José Ignacio is a small coastal town about 45 minutes east of Punta del Este. Population: roughly nothing in winter, slightly more in summer.