Cala di Volpe Boutique Hotel Montevideo

... alongside the harbour. The main attraction of the harbourside has to be the Puerto Mercado (Port Market) which, during the day, is a mecca for those who love parillas (meat grills) - apparently at night-time it's a bit of a no-go area! This place has dozens of parillas under the roof of an old cast-iron Victorian building imported from the UK. After spending three hours or so devouring more meat than you can shake a stick at (washed down by excellent wine), we ventured back out ...

As far as possible travel locations go, Montevideo was somewhere around the bottom of my list of "must see" places. Apart from having a really cool name I didn`t know anything about the place. During my travels in Peru I learned that not far from the capital is a famous beach (well famous to those who have heard of it) Punta del este, again not a must see place in the cold of winter.<br><br>So from my ...

... than just the lunch. They adviced me to go to a rodeo event somewhere outside of the city centre. I took a taxi, I dusicussed the current political situation in Uruguay with the driver and got of after about 20 minutes. Unfortunately the rodeo was already finished when I arrived, but I could still enjoy some Uruyguayan music and folklore dancing. In the night we had a BBQ on the roof terrace ...

... needless to say. A cute quaint town, it was beautiful at sunset and had a nice chilled out atmosphere in the evening for going out for a meal or a drink. Had heard quite a bit about it but I was a little disappointed by the sights. The historical part of town is absolutely tiny and the buildings while cute are few and far between. Still interesting for its history for an afternoon walking around. No more though. (ii) Montevideo Capital of Uruguay and home to 1.4 ...

... a metal straw to drink a very hot liquid from but it's a friendly and intriguing custom. there is mate paraphernalia everywhere and if you fancy, you can buy a mate gourd cased in a cow's hoof. no lie. *weekly flea markets where people sell everything and anything from used shoes and antique candlesticks to local produce and live owls. there is a puppy corner where everyone and their mother whose dog has recently had babies sets up boxes ...

... operational hydroelectric dam (this will become the worlds second largest when the Three gorges dam in China gets going next year). It was massive and we drove underneath it and over the top, with a huge lake on one side and a sheer drop on the other. It is pretty impressive and creates 80% of the whole electric demand for Paraguay and 25% of the demand for Brazil (which is pretty amazing considering the size of Brazil - a third of the S.American continent). In order to build ...

... info on him: http://www.couchsurfing.com/news.html?i d=172). He brought his uncle, who now lives in San Francisco, with him to the party as his crazy cool uncle is travelling with Adam for a few weeks. His uncle was telling me that his son is an international jazz artist (www.mattschofield.com) not too shabby! Anyways, we met lots of local CSers and they were all extremely welcoming and lovely and friendly people...It was a fantastic night in a fantastic city! ...Back to Buenos Aires!

... of a huge pile of chips, salad, Russian salad, mushy peas which is then topped off with thin slices of steak, ham and finally grilled cheese - a coronary on a plate! Very nice it is too , although a salad would be nice now and again! We are really looking forward to cooking our own food in BA and start day dreaming about what we miss most.... <br><br>Determined to see the best of the city, we head off to the market in the port area of the city which again, has ...

Montevideo...city full of surprises...first I never expected to meet someone from Estonia in Plaza de la Independencia..guy called Martin from Tallinn who is also traveling for like a month in S.America...we ended up having a drink and walking a bit and found some common friends and all....world is small after all... I went to look out for a restaurant recommended by Timothy whom I met in B.A. and it was well worth it...there was a group of ...