Principe Punta del Este

... entrecot (small sirloin = 15 ounces) for about 9 dollars. After lunch we met up with Duncan and Frie and starting drinking some beer while watching the soccer game. After 3 or 4 litres of beers (and not having to pay for reasons unknown; not that someone paid for us, no one paid for anything and the bar tender hugged you goodbye?) we migrated to the next bar in the market. At this point the market was closed and all the metal gates were up and ...

Leaving Montevideo we decided to head to the coast. Uruguay's premier beach resort is Punta del Este, unfortunately premier means expensive and using our loaves and with a little help from the book, we decided that the best option would be to stay in Piriapolis. About 50 minutes away from Punta, Piriapolis is described as "vaguely reminiscent of a Mediterranean beach town". Having visited a few Mediterranean beach ...

... to a mosquito that I couldnīt quite escape. I canīt bear that wining noise, although it is worse when it stops as this usually means it has landed somewhere - I now have some attractive bites on my face! Today we caught a shuttle boat out into the delta. A bit disappointed as we had hoped to see some interesting wildlife. Unless of course you count giant mosquitoes. We did get a photo of a woodpecker, although not sure it ...

... fell asleep in minutes while Evan and I surveyed the area and commented on how weird it was the we were actually on a river. As evening approached, we abandoned the beach and began to explore the surrounding neighborhood. Walking up into Pocitos, we found more peaceful streets and a few shopping strips with local shops and restaurants. As the sun sank lower in the sky we found a nice pub and grabbed a table on the wooden terraza. A few bottles of the fine ...

... i could comunicate!!! I came back speaking spanish and everyone was really happy. Its funny too coz i told pedro... Next time i return to visit you i will speak to you in your langauge!! Every evening after everyone was done work was something fun They eat super late in UY sometimes we never at dinner until midnight, On day i was asked at 9pm do you want dinner now or is it still to early... Thats definatly something one needs to adapt too. New years eve and fireworks. So this ...

... which is basically a wood burning bbq. Oh my God. It was magnificent. Patrick chose the restaurant, they were all pretty much the same from what we could see, and from where we sat we could see seven fires! We had a massive meal over the course of about two or three hours, which included a bottle of medio y medio, or half sparkling wine and half white wine. Patrick made friends with some of the touts trying to get people into their ...

... man walked from one side of the foyer to the other, and we all applauded, thinking he was Mr. Conductor. He wasnīt. He gave us some background on something - the group, the school, the theater, who knows - in Spanish. Finally, Mr. Conductor, Prof. Alvaro Martinez, also all in black, appeared and climbed up on a little covered box, to thunderous applause. We heard such wonderful music! The horns came out for a number or two, and Sofia Mendez played ...

... risk with the owner and an Irish couple who were staying in the room next to ours, it was alot of fun. This being a Friday night however, we decided to head out for a bit of a boogie and a shimmy. We didnīt realise just how stormy it was until we arrived at the pier where the pubs and clubs were located and saw the palm trees swaying in the gales and the rain sliding over the ground in sheets. We had a few drinks anyway and a bit of a dance. Great fun. Good way to kill a rainy ...

... right now i think the plan is to head up to brazil mid december, and see how that goes i guess... i will go for anywhere between 2 weeks and 6 weeks depending on how i like it. Thanks all folks, donīīt expect to many more updates for a couple weeks, maybe a few pins as I am planing on renting a car and showing my parents chui (brazilian border) punta del diablo cool lil fishing town, and la paloma party central in the summer but for now a sleepy lil hippy colony.

... for my fans. I wanted them to think us Canadians knew how to drink. I impressed them, but the end result was, I slept real good that night, after I was sick for a hour or so. The next day brought sunshine again and we continued on to Punta del Este with a 60 mile detour after I took the wrong highway. What makes this type of Holiday so special is the unpredictability. You never know what the next ...