Just for fun, we all thought it would be a good idea to see what Montevideo was like. Well if you ask me, keep in mind I was only here for a couple of days, its alot like BA, except there are more public displays of mate drinking. It seems everyone here walks around with a thermos and a cup of mate with a metal straw sticking out, but the weird and mysterious thing is, no one sells it, its like a private club for locals only.
My first impression of the people at the hostel was strange, the woman behind the counter spoke English with a thick almost eastern European accent, and had a similar eastern block attitude (or what I imagine an eastern block attitude would be like). For example, I asked her about Mate (as the sign said Mate is included in breakfast) and she said with disdain in her thick eastern European accent "OK, but, what if you don't like it?" I looked at her blankly and said "well, maybe if i don't like it my friends will", she then replied again with disdain "you´re just like a chicky, you see and you want" then she smiled at me which, combined with a few other things, led me to believe she was flirting with me in a strange, rough eastern European kind of way. Anyway, I don't recommend the Red hostel for asthmatics as they light a fire inside which doesn´t have a chimney (well it has a chimney but i think its blocked because smoke visible pours straight out of the fireplace and into the hostel).
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