Estancia Vik Jose Ignacio 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,

MONTEVIDEO TO PUNTE DEL ESTE – DRIZZLING AND WARM - 1.11.09

The Hostel Palermo had a beautiful marble staircase, the most posh thing about the place, the rest was very, very basic, and we had to carry all our luggage down the stairs to load up the bikes which were stored at the local undercover carpark.

By 10:30am we were loaded (we would have liked to get away earlier, but the mozzie fiasco left us a bit 'drained') and ...

... driven just over 100 kms to get to the town of Maldando, which again has a large campsite in the area. The tourist office was closed when we arrived, but we managed to get directions to the campsite. Once again it is a huge place, although this time about 2 kms from the beach and about 5 to town.

2nd - Another very quiet and relaxed day.

Pictures are for the house in next entry.

... at the hostel (about $5 CAD), but I was getting hungry and didn't want to wait until 10 PM to eat dinner, so I went off on my own. I had hoped to tag along with the Calgary Cuties, but they appeared to want some time on their own, and I figured they had already had their fill of creepy hostel guys. I wandered around town, but didn't find any great dinner options, so I decided to go with something cheap. Unfortunately, the one cheap place ...

... La Cabrera for showing them around (I told them it wasn't necessary, they insisted). Aug knows the legend behind La Cabrera, but I think Tom and Balci thought we were exaggerating. You should have seen their faces when the steaks 'as big as your face' came out. They are also now in the know as to where you can find a steak 'as big as your face.' I find it semi-sinful that I have gone this far traveling in Central and South America without ...

... both came in and with all the high rollers moving their stakes to whatever they did next and the casino launching some kind of internal investigation into what kind of ball tampering they had been involved in they came back over to see me 150 dollars richer( I must add at this point Emma´s scepticsm - after showing her the chips from her first win, she very patronisingly thought we had won about 3 quid in chips and gave us some equally patronising words of ...

... was an entire channel devoted to showing highlights of last years beach season, somplete with mushroom jazz background music. Picture a cross between South Beach and Ibiza, with a bit of Cannes thrown in there. Beautiful people, at least on the outside, and I'm sure that beneath all of that plastic, and silicon they are caring people as well. :P I've got a ticket, leaving Dec 27th, do you?

... help out where we could, doing the dishes after meals and playing games with Cassie, like I Spy and a new one for us, Uno Spin. We watched the movie "Open Season" with the family and had pizza the next night while getting to talk with everyone. It was a great chance to feel like we were part of a family once more. Rod and Solea's Love and Logic methods have helped them raise some really intelligent and well-behaved children, and watching Solea ...

... or shell because these boats are more like the 150 year old transportation rowing shells from England... Long oars, but not designed for racing. Very elegant. As I said, Tigre USED to be the destination of the rich as well as a port. Now, lining the shores of the river inlet are abandoned, rusting ships and docking platforms, askew and half-sunk as if some grand disaster had struck many years ago. It would be quite apocalyptic if not for the amusement parks and bars ...

... een bed met zo´n fijne kuil in het midden. Een douchecel van 2 vierkante meter waar ook de wc en het bidet in ondergebracht waren. Een vloerbedekking waar we liever niet met onze blote voeten over liepen. Maar goed, het was goedkoop en we hadden een megagroot balkon. Na een aantal goedkope maaltijden was het tijd om maar weer eens te verkassen. Dus naar het busstation en twee kaarten voor Punta del Este in Urugauy gekocht. Goed moment om eens te gaan uitzoeken of de ...