Europa Montevideo

I've officially decided that the very best thing about studying abroad is having the opportunity to travel around where you're staying. Because even though Cordoba might not be the cleanest nicest city in the entire universe, it does happen to be close to some pretty amazing locations - Uruguay for example. A few weeks ago I took off a few days of school and traveled with three other girls to Montevideo and Punta del Este, two absolutely ...

... 20 years, thanks lonely planet. So we didn't stay there long, walked back along the beach, fed the horse and got our bus ticket out of there for the following day.<br><br>The bus to the Uruguayan capital Montevideo was only 2.5 hours and again the bus was comfortable. I was keen to see the place with my own eyes after telling an impressionable you kid in Thailand that the place was a hole. His dad was none too pleased as he was about to be transferred their in his ...

... ticket required to board the ferry. It´s like shopping in Argos before they got all clever with the electronic booking malarky.<br><br>Ok, so with that merry little escapade sorted, I went and sat at the gate waiting for my ferry. Long story short, choppy ride, but otherwise uneventful. I had a stinking hangover anyway so I chose to lie across 5 or so seats designed for SAmerican midgets and sleep for the duration of the trip (about 4 hours).<br><br>Montevideo ...

... Celina in a state of shock at first, but she pulled through! To be honest, most of the time I couldn't get a word in edgeways. They may have different native languages, but between them, Lorna & Celina, I think breathed three times during the whole day!! (Add bleeding ears to my list of ailments)! Celina took us on a mini guided tour of some areas of Montevideo before I had to ...

... shows a landscape of natural grasslands, gentle hills and plains spotting sheep, cows and horses, rivers and lagoons, small towns, farms and historical rural residences, and several family owned vineyards. Useful websites www.welcomeuruguay.com www.turismo.gub.uy SURFACE 176.215 km2, 600km of coastline along the River Plate and Atlantic Ocean POPULATION 3.323.906 ...

... It's a short bus ride to Punta, and the time passed quickly while I wrote in my journal. At the Punta bus station - there was some promising talent! Spanish, perhaps? The hostel gave instructions to take a bus from the station, and said to get off at stop #6. I discussed this with the driver, and he kind of nodded in agreement. Well, I expected the hostel to be quite far from town, but it turned out to be relatively close. None of the bus ...

... tasty potato-omelet sandwiches, very expensive wi-fi] the next morning we got to our gate to find that, much to our surprise, we were to have another layover in madrid. you know, just a minor detail our online booking company decided we didn't need to know about beforehand. in any case, the flight was delayed due to snow. several hours later, when we were finally airborne and mere miles from madrid, the captain came on to inform us that ...

... i Montevideo. Bjoern var mest opptatt av at han fikk se en Renault 5, en Citroen 2CV, en Opel Rekord, en Fiat 500, en Boble, en Ford Granada og en gammel Datsun i loepet av 5 minutter. Ogsaa et uvanlig syn. Goey. Vi merker at vi naermer oss Argentina, for biffene her er ekstremt gode! Og dessertene ogsaa! Flan - alla creme bruelee er en uruguaisk spesialitet ...

... went one extra block to avoid walking past Numia´s little food store right next door with all of our Devoto Mercado shopping bags. We´ll get lunch meat from her and little things that we need during the week. 5 pm - Talk about a useless afternoon! We watched TV - a Hallmark movie with Tommie Lee Jones and Ashley Judd followed by Francisco and His Two Sons (again), which we learned was a true story! We´ve been cool, in spite of 25 degrees on the ...