Karen A Higgs
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Karen A Higgs

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Karen A Higgs grew up in the South Wales Valleys. At 22 she found herself stranded in Mexico City airport with just a pocket Spanish dictionary for company. Since then she's lived most of her life in Latin America. She sang 60s covers in a psychedelic rock bar in Costa Rica. In Buenos Aires, she impressed her teenage English language students by riding a 500 cc motorbike around town. In 2000, she moved to Uruguay to run communications for an international non-profit. Later as the owner of an award-winning guesthouse in Montevideo's Old City, pleas from grateful guests to share her insider information about the city more widely inspired the popular Guru'Guay website in 2014. She has written "The Guru'Guay Guide to Montevideo" (1st ed Jan. 2016, 2nd ed. Sept. 2019) and its companion "The Guru'Guay Guide to Uruguay: Beaches, Ranches & Wine Country" (1st ed Nov. 2017, 2nd ed. Nov. 2024)--indispensable for English speakers living in or visiting Uruguay. Karen Higgs is the only Uruguay guidebook author who actually resides full-time in Uruguay and the difference to the other commercial guidebooks is palpable. Following rave reviews for their debut editions, later Guru'Guay guides have been sponsored by the Uruguay Ministry of Tourism, the government of Montevideo and Uruguay XXI, Uruguay's export agency. Karen makes regular appearances in the national media in Uruguay and is featured in international media as THE English-speaking Uruguay expert.
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