El Campanario Hotel Punta del Este

www.elviajerobravabeach.com

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Arrive at 1.30 pm. Two days and One night.

leave on the afternoon to head to Montevideo before catching the morning flight to Florianopolis,

... new. We ate lunch on the beach. Beautiful, red, ripe and juicy tomato sandwiches. Real tomatoes, with flavor and soft skins, not genetically modified to travel well.

We pulled over to have a photo session at the 'fingers in the sand' monument, at the beach at Punte Del Este and could hardly get away from all the people who were interested in our trip. We had so many photos taken of us, on cameras and on mobile phones, it was getting ...

... to a local real estate agent, in english, about a mutual Russian friend who had bought a lot for $6 million USD. Cha-ching!

Luckily for us, the vibe in Punta is very low key in the off season and the place was almost a ghost town during our stay. We pulled into the bus station at 9 pm, found our hostel and grabbed some food. The hostel, Hostel 1949, was the nicest one we've visited on this trip so far ...

... out in the sea, one of the waves was so powerful that it flung me to the bottom of the sea floor, where I bruised my ribs and chest, very painful. Anyway, that night for christmas eve, we had a great party, the food was good, in the end we shared our costillar with everyone and ate the communal anyway, it was tasty, the barbecue in Uruguay was just as good as in Argentina, we met a cool English couple from London, and some other travellers ...

... was a very rainy weekday and therefore not so great - Hop was not hopping but SoHo was better. We struggled to like Uruguay at the beginning, as we were in a beach town and it was lashing rain - literally, torrential at some points and because of the cost. Coming from Argentina, the cost of stuff almost shocked us. We ended up eating out very little and going to Shopping centre in suburbs for food to cook at home (cooking is a skill that I have officially lost ...

... forgot her name) and so does Matis`s family. I tell Jane I wish there were beer vendors here like in Brazil. She asks if I want a beer and I`m like does Soda Pop Pinski want to be after Mr. Sandman in Tyson`s Punch Out, hell yes. She apparently does as well and we walk to a little store to get a liter of Stella Artois. I tell her we should probably get another one but she thinks one will be enough, hah, yeah right. The highschool girls tag along and ...

... of the names of many of their dishes. I'm pretty sure Lauren either had Robert Redford or Brad Pitt for dinner, haha. There was a casino in the hotel (along with a spa and a movie theater) so we hung out there for a little while each night, too. It was actually my first time in one. I've never really had any desire to go and, along with the fact that everything was in Spanish and we couldn't find the directions for any of the slots, Lauren and I sort of just ...

... was tellin us all the stories of the stuff that happens in summer. The hostel charges 2.5 times as much and downstairs turns into a bar thats open til 3 am. We managed to find an outdoor workout station on the beach so we thought we'd do some chin ups since we haven't worked the lats for over a month. I can barely raise my hand above my head. too painful

... will be in Santiago in 4-5 days, so I am going to hightail it after one more night hanging out with Carlos and Rob, the Englishman who enrolled in a Spanish immersion program here in BsAs. Tonight in the hostel´s fashionable Basement Bar Area, there was a guy covering the best and biggest rock ballads of the 90's, such as Radiohead's High and Dry and Stone Temple Pilots' Plush, as well as the requisite Red Hot Chili Peppers' under the bridge. he was very good, and it ...

We are currently in Punta del Este, the famed summer playground for the young, rich and beautiful from Argentina, Brazil and Chile. (Think about a cross between Miami Beach and the Hamptons.) Kia and I would like to think of ourselves as young and beautiful (this is much easier for her) and by local standards we are fairly rich. We decided that we should see what this party town has to offer. When we did our reconnaissance, we were told that the beautiful people ...