Martijn's Blog

We went to Uruguay this weekend. Friday night we took the fast ferry to Colonia which is only an hour away and from there we had another 2 and a half hour bus ride to Montevideo. Because of the torrential rain it took the bus a bit longer and we arrived in the hotel around midnight. After that we still had to find somewhere to eat. With a big group (27) always fun to walk around a city, not. (a lot of 'schutteren' was involved). Luckily we found a place which had a club downstairs where a band was playing some typical Uruguayan music (whatever that may be). Anyway we stayed out until 6am which is easy in South America because nightlife doesn't start until 2am.

The next day we still got up early to see the city, which is much smaller and quieter than Buenos Aires. A nice break I thought.

For lunch we had a mixed barbeque containing steak, chicken, chorizo (sausage), morcilla (blood sausage), kidney, intestines and 'choto'. None of us really knew what choto was but as the brave European I tried it. It tasted like blood and was very chewy.



Well it turned out to be a Uruguayan speciality made out of sheep's penis: lovely!
When we returned to school the next Monday and explained (in Spanish) what we had done in Montevideo I tried to explain what I had eaten: "Comí choto"
The teachers immediately had a new name for me: pervertido.
Apparently 'choto' is not food in Argentina but has some other meaning....