Hotel Punta Vip Colon

... of the cousin i was staying at. New years in uruguay is a lot like christmas, The family gets together has some drink and the customery late dinner then at midnight everyone goes outside and blastes off there small cache of fireworks, No pune intended but its A BLAST, ITs really a lot of fun. Then around 2-3 in the morning all the younger kids go dancing So taking advantage of the invitation of the employee of the farmacia, he text me around 2:30 and i ...

... care that there kids were drinking (in monderation) And the fact that everyones parents were ok with 15 year old kids partying until 8 am in the morning. Guess its something i´ll never understand growing up in the prudy north american culture. Having latin family. Is Like always traveling with a entourage of pimps, I´m not sure how it works here but it seems like if your single, Everyones trying to hook you up, I got 40 year ...

... but from what i gathered he was having a fight with his gf or something on the phone, so i went home and called it a night lol I know this is written very fast and maybe a lil confusing but tough luck. Other then that i was just told that the uruguay statistics are pretty much the oposite from Alberta edmonton is 3 men for every woman (fort mac 6 men for every woman) In uruguay because of the great exodious of man to work in wealthier nations ...

... in the streets. Also as February is carnival time in most South American countries, we watched a carnival procession down Avenue de Mayo from our hotel balcony. Because our plans were dramatically changed by an unknown force we met up with my parents who are STILL traveling in Argentina, in Gualeguaychu!! Gualeguaychu is famed for its carnival, the biggest in Argentina, which takes place every Saturday night in February. It is enough to say it was a lot of fun......!!

... kitchen. Our room is gigantic and has french windows leading out to the garden. It´s all just generally really clean and relaxed and peaceful. An Argentine family asked us to join them in a barbeque so we bought an apple tart and had another fantastic meat-fest dinner with them and some others from the hostel. We´ve spent our time here well with many trips to the beach and even got out on the river for a canoe. The town is beautiful with wide streets and ...

... wine ... it is good, don´t knock it until you have sat on the edge of a Uruguyan Plaza (square, green area), full of young people enjoying the cool evening and music coming loudly from a raucous speaker. Just one hint though, the wine must be good. (more about the music and dancing from the whole of SA another time) Finally on habits, ´dulce con leche´ which tastes like a mixture of condensed milk and caramel only sweeter. It is amazing ...

... to the park for the potato festival we passed a home for ´´anciens´ (people like us only mostly even older). On the way back to the town ... purpose to kill time because nothing starts till 7pm and this was around 4.30 ... we past this old peoples place again and Peter being a shy little thing marches boldly in and starts talking. Wonderful, we are invited in, stumble over our Spanish and they have no English, not even numbers (most unusual ...

... a special pot with Mate leaves and add hot water. This was passed round the group and sipped through a sliver straw. See photo of Mark in action wearing Bill's hat! We noticed that it was a bit of a national obsession and everywhere we went we saw people clutching flasks of hot water. Even service stations appeared to have special hot water refill points. It was a lovely relaxing weekend and a great opportunity to see another part of Argentina which is not on the tourist trail.

... crisps, so I gave them twice the asking price of the jam. If I was feeling cycnical I'd call this a cunning ploy, but I'm not, so I'm going to call it reciprocal generosity instead. I continued my journey from Leibig towards Uruguay but getting over the border before dark began to look unlikely, and indeed, I was forced to spend another night in the Colon of two days previously. This, you shall see, proved to be a bad move.

... i have some more family, to visit drop off some gifts go out on the down, and then most likly punta del esta for the summer, which is the place to be in latin america in the summer, and one whos anyone with some money goes there for the summer, supposed to be extremely wealthy lots of mansions and stuff, and nothing but white sandy beaches, i might have to stay awhile and deeply investigate these claims anyway thats it for now take care, Brian