Hotel Posada del Virrey Colonia del Sacramento

We set of this morning with the intention of going to a campsite at Punta Espinilio on the edge of Rio Santa Lucia and the Rio de la Plata, unfortunately on arrival we found that it is closed during the winter season and there was no room to park by the beach area. As a result we continued on to the town of Colonia Del Sacramento. Once again we were expecting a campsite, but this one has closed down. On asking we were told that we could park in ...

... dining room and roof deck that overlooked the water. Our leader offered us the option of renting scooters or golf carts to explore the town. None of us were interested, and in truth, the town is very small and any transportation, other than feet, is quite unnecessary.

After visiting the ATMs and converting money (Uruguayan pesos are about 23:1 with the $), we grabbed a nice lunch on the main boulevard. I got some pictures of a very cute sleeping dog dressed up in a ...

Well it’s not often you can take a day trip to a different country, but with Uruguay just an hour’s boat ride away from Buenos Aires, that’s exactly what we did.

Originally founded, colonized and fought over by Spain and Portugal, it’s personality is similiar to Argentina, and with over 94% of the population being European descendants, we were once again exploring an historic European town.

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Took a large boat from buenos aires to a town in uruguay, Colonia. The boat ride was incredibly windy! The water the whole way was completely brown because it is the mouth of the river. Took 3 hours. Got to colonia and me and jeff rented motorized scooters. Rode them all over the historical district of colonia and then way out into the countryside (where we werent supposed togo) and saw all kinds of ...

... pulls us over. He asks for Ginny's license. The office was in plain clothing, so Ginny asks him for his badge. The cop pulls out some peice of paper that looks semi official (by that i mean some printed stuff and laminated). She hads over her colorado drivers license and walks away. Great how much is this going to cost us to get back. Is he even a real cop? The cop comes back and says "where are you from?" Ginny says ...

I had my first mosquito massacre of the year last night. Was bitten around a dozen times including on my face. The little *******s kept me up all night! First of many mosquito massacre's of 2009, I'm sure. Woke up this morning after very little sleep to catch the boat to Uruguay from the docks in Buenos Aires. Went through immigration and got my Argentinean exit stamp and my Uruguay stamp on the Argentinean side. A very quick and painless process ...

... quiet a liberating feeling. Some of my fondest memories of traveling involve aimlessly wandering around places I don't know, down dimly-lit streets, hoping I don't get mugged or stabbed ... ahh ... good times, good times ... Back to the hostel - some ******* was cooking burgers, and the delicious smell was making me hungry! Some cheap beer and journal writing, and the next thing you know, the whole bar area was taken over by ...

... problems out of everybody. It was quite a far walk back to the bus station, made even more difficult because it was getting hot in the mid-afternoon sun. Crossing the street is always challenging here in Chile, since there is absolutely NO respect given to pedestrians - it was nearly impossible at this one intersection that had the usual intersection of two streets, but was further complicated by a diagonal street that went ...

... s not very big you quickly get out into the countryside. We started off riding through woodland and sand dunes before reaching the beach. It was a dream come true to horse ride along a beach! We both ached a bit afterwards as it´s been a good few years since we´ve ridden horses but it was absolutely brilliant! We borrowed some bicycles from the hostel but they were so uncomfy and in such a bad state of repair that we ...

... result and looking forward to the derby game this weekend and then the 3 consecutive games against Arsenal! Nice easy 4 games then ;)

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