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Step back in time
... it did. Except it wasn´t your average restautant,in fact it was just some old guys house and he had converted his carport into a dining room! Fantastic! It was the old guy himself, Carlitos,who cooked up the fish right in front of you. He was dressed in chef whites with the shirt unbuttoned almost to his naval, priceless! Fish was washed down with cheap white wine...thanks Carlitos,your a legend!
From here, as a day trip, we visited Uruguay´s premier ...
A quick look at Uruguay, Buenos Aires, then home
... eventually it clears and we make good time, coming into Palermo from the opposite direction to our normal route, but according to the sat nav. The navigators probably need a verbal input as well as output, as some of the cabbies don’t seem too familiar with the keyboard, and/or spelling.
We get to Zentrum about 8pm, recover our bags, pay our bill, but ignore bag storage when they don’t bring it up. We figure they owe us for the initial ...
December in the Sun
... Uruguay's extensive 300km coast of unspoilt, beautiful sandy beach for a few days relaxation. Piriapolis is a picturesque resort, lying in an area resembling the South of France with high sand dunes, pine forests bordering the beach (although we were baffled as to where the local trend for thatched roofs came from.... answers on a postcard please). We were greeted by cloudless blue skies, empty sandy beaches ...
Could be in Greece
... the indigenous animals of Uruguay in natural surroundings. The setting at the foot of the Pan de Azucar (sugarloaf) hill was beautiful and the vultures and eagles flying freely overhead wonderful, but we were quite distressed by the small enclosures given to some of the animals. The Reserve was probably ahead of its time and very well-intentioned when set up, but
the concept of animal parks has changed so much over the 30-40 years. Enjoyed a good ice-cream at the café, ...
Iguazu Falls and Uruguay
This blog post will only be very short, but our time spent in Iguazu was amazing. We did both sides of the falls and both were very different! Staying on the Argentinian side, we had to cross the border to get to Brazil, then again to get back into Argentina, so the passport is covered in a wealth of immigration stamps! But the Brazilian side was beautiful. The humidity was made bearable by the many butterflies that fluttered ...


