The morning we left Bs As I went to wake Vinnie up an hour before we left. He´d only got home 2 hours before and still hadn't packed. I knew this would happen. We got to the ferry port to pick our tickets up only to find out after waiting for a good 20 minutes our booking hadn't gone through so had to stand in another queue for another 20 minute...

This place is the best tourist place in the world...in summer. We rock up to find another deserted town. Had a ride around the point and saw the views and stuff but this place is geared for tourists in summer. We sat down to a game of poker with the guy runnin the hostel (i lost all my money of course...you think i'd learn to stop gambling by no...

The bus ride was a total of 20 hours, but surprisingly comfortable. I got the most sleep over the last 24 hours than Ive had in awhile. It was nice. Punta del Este is supposed to be the Miami of South America. I´m here just on the end of the high season and got a hostel in walking distance to bikini beach. I wanted to get one in Punta, but every...

Morning still cloudy, but the sun came out around midday. Went to Ciclista in PDE for some Italian food. Haven't seen that much white cream sauce since going to the Italian restaraunts in the Hudson Valley in the 70's as a kid. No one makes that much butter, wine, cream for one dish anymore. Coronary pasta for sure. Julie got a nice white bikini...

Decided that we needed a few days to relax as this whole travelling busines can get quite exhausting!! So off to the Uruguayan beaches we went! You can get a 3 hr ferry from BA to Montevideo (the capital of Uruguay) from there you get a 2 hr bus to Punto Del Este... which was not quite what we expected!! Really fancy beach town... lovely but qui...

So, being the Monaco or St Tropez of South America we thought cool lets check it out. It´s pretty much out of season and there is not a soul here. Loads of flash huge houses, nice stretches of beach, apartments etc but no-one in them. All owned by rich Argies and so on who come down to the beach for a nice break in the summer. Despite raining an...

Punta del Este is a beach resort and a very expensive one at that. I thought Uruguay would be cheap but I was wrong. It is very pretty and quite cool as you can stand on the middle main road and to one side you can see the Atlantic Ocean and to the other side the Rio de la Plata (see photos, I am looking very sexy as have my big backpack on, my ...