The Corner Bar in Uruguay

First off: "Bares" in Uruguay (and that's the word, "bar", that they use for them) are not quite like the bars in the US. They're drinkeries, sure, but they're mostly eateries. And an ungodly number of them are located at corners. It seems like the law here - if there's a corner, it should really be a bar. In a humble attempt at chronicling them, I give you my small collection of corner bar photographs from the last three days. Enjoy.

This is the teatro Solís, the national theater in the old city. Look carefully at the near corner.

The rare corner bar that encompasses two corners, one concave, the other convex.

This one's name warms my heart.

This might be the corneriest of the corner bars - it's a little trailer (they're very common here), that serves drinks and food. Most of them are semi-permanently parked around town, but this one is parked pretty much permanently on a little traffic island, with corners everywhere you look: