Off-grid living in Uruguay

  • Why the hassle?
    Finally I get to celebrate my birthday in summer!
    Why the hassle?
    Yearly mean temperatures Oslo, Norway 6.7°C vs. Carmelo, Uruguay 17.2°C!
    Why the hassle?
    No more plastic-wrapped veggies!
 
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How to build a house and become reasonably self-sustainable

The title says it all I guess? We will use this blog to document the process of building a house and become reasonably self-sustainable in a reasonably sustainable way near Carmelo in Uruguay. Hopefully there will be some beer brewing every now and then, a couple of weird side projects, and the occasional regular adventure to report about too.

Meanwhile in Buenos Aires

SurPopp Thursday June 25th, 2015 Thursday June 25th, 2015Uncategorized 4

Virginia is in Montevideo today, having another go with the residency permits. And my oh my, isn’t she a miracle of efficiency! Looks like she arranged an appointment for the three of us with Mercosur passports (i.e., not me…) already next week. She also had some documents translated and stamped,…

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Welcome to the red tape jungle! Ministries, offices, apostilles, passports, paperwork… And family and friends

virginia Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 Tuesday June 23rd, 2015Uncategorized 4

This pretty much resumes my last days. We are full on into the paperwork mill trying to get some speed in our residence application. Well, actually trying to start it all together. We have already encountered major surprises due to some key information that was for some reason not mentioned…

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