Made it to Brazil!

After a 12 hour bus ride from Montevideo...I have made it to
Brazil. No more spanish and the the roles have reversed between Julie and me. I can speak more easily now with portuguese and Julie is already having some
difficulty understanding the portuguese here. The amount of doce de
leite ("sweet milk"...like a butterscotch treat) in Buenos Aires and
Montevideo was impressive. I love doce de leite...but I have never had
so much of it in my life. Breakfast, doce de leite is like the butter
you put on your bread. Then there are the Alfaros...these are dark
chocolate and white chocolate biscuits filled with doce de leite.
Every ice cream shop has a whole section devoted to doce de leite.
There's Doce de leite granado (with pieces of chocolate), Super Doce
de leite (ice cream with more doce de leite on top)...and some 3 other
types of ice cream all under the heading of doce de leite. Oh and lets
not forget empanadas...these are the equivalent of meat patties. These
are real popular, you can put in cheese and ham, tomato sauce and
meat, just straight beef...clearly you can put whatever you want
inside an empanada...so much so that i had an empanada with, none
other than doce de leite, nuts and nutella.
I dont think doce the leite is popular to such an extent here in
Brazil....Doce de leite...you will be missed.
-Philippe
Photos of Uruguay to come soon.