Radisson Victoria Plaza Montevideo

... it has several miles of beautiful beaches along the Rio Plata. We were told that the water is safe for swimming; a rare luxury for a national capital.




The city also has a very extensive park system that is generally well-maintained. These big parks provide well-landscaped open space and recreation for each of the main neighborhoods in the city. The parks are often enhanced with beautiful ...

... I was being asked to go for a walk on a night out. I wasn't best please as it was pretty cold and I only had a little vest on so needless to say we had words cos he couldn't understand why I didn't wanna go wandering around the streets in the cold. Once he has a mood on though there is no reasoning with him and so we ended up not speaking for a while cos I schitzo flipped on him after about 20 minutes of trying to make ...

... gets paid about 35 pesos an hour (less that £1) so things seem expensive to people who live here. After a few drinks at the bar me and Ismael went to a club, the girls were tired so headed off home. We got a cab which came to 80 pesos (about £2) and then walked a few blocks to the club. The streets all looked the same, quite high grey building with trees along the pavement and not very well lit. The club just looked like another tall grey building, the ...

... who are hunting for cardboard or plastic or other usable things in the trash. i especially enjoy when the horse has a porkpie hat, complete with earholes. *people walking around sipping out of a gourd with a metal straw and a thermos under their arm. they are drinking "mate" which is an infusion of leaves that i find to be similar to green tea. people go loco for it here and many don't leave home without it even, say, to go to the ...

... Damo running around in just a pair of red Y-fronts - don´t ask!!! After New year we travelled up to the very tip of North East Argentina to Puerto Iguazu to see the falls. There are about 300 waterfalls in one spot (it was used in an Indian Jones film). One of them - the Devil´s Throat is massive and the force of the water flowing through is crazy. The sight is situated on the border of Brazil and Argentina and the site is so large that it took us 8 hours the first day ...

Last day of our trip. We visited Montevideo. It is small enough, therefore we managed to do it within a day. We took the last ferry back to BA. Unfortunately, we threw away the visa papers. Nobody told us when we took the ferry in BA that the visa stamp was on the boarding pass and needed to be kept during our stay in Uruguay.
Big rip off, we had to pay ...

... for a classic Uruguayan parilla (BBQ), where we sat up at the bar in front of the fire, watching a master BBQ-er perfectly cook whole pigs, chickens, innards, sausages, ribs, you name it, it was there! We had a feast of ribs and sausage accompanied by chips, bread and a great version of chimichuri, a South American relish of herbs, spices, garlic, chilli, oil and vinegar, and then rolled off to the bus station to head to the beach......

... cant believe theres only three days left o fthe tour. its gonna be weird fending for myself againa nd am realy gonna miss traveling with becks, but am thinking of going to mexico for a month to meet up with her in november, have to see how finances go. otherwsie we're gonna doa road trip round sydney together as thats where shes from. nothing else to report i dont think. cold again at the mo, have definielty left ...

... etc.), we chose to walk downtown, simply because it was so cold and windy. We dressed like ¨onions¨- layered, with gloves and (me) Hermes scarf tied like a babushka, topped by my jacket hood (that doesn´t stay up well, needs a tie or something). Taking a different route was a breeze - different sights! We took the elevator to the 25th floor at the Radisson, to check out the dining room - very fancy, but not that expensive. We were in our walking ...