The funny thing about addresses

So we have rented a place for the ‘summer’ being now through February, in Uruguay. We had to have some stuff delivered to the house so we asked the landlady what the address was. This is what we got as a response.

Adriana’s the Argentine dentist’s house, before the last curve of the main road, next door to the wooden house. Devil’s Point, Rocha, Uruguay.

I don’t think if i pasted those directions in to any online geocoder that it’d be able to return anything useful. The Uruguayan government has gone through the trouble of giving every street in this little beach town a name, and giving all the houses numbers. Unfortunately nobody uses the street names and all the houses have names displayed, but not their numbers.

In Montevideo there are proper street numbers, but here most people use a system listing the number of meters from the closest intersection. This means there are multiple houses with the same number, depending on which intersection you choose to start counting from.

Oh, yes, one last thing. I created a flickr set of photos i’ve been taking since we arrived, pictures of punta del diablo.