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May 5th, 2010 | Posted in Blog, News, Travel, Travel Stories | 6 Comments
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Sunday 11th April 2010
We say goodbye to our good friends and travelling buddies Vix and Ben and jump on a hot coach bus to Montevideo from Colonia. The bus is semi-full filled with locals and we spend the time reading up on Montevideo in the Lonely Planet and playing NBA 2K10 :-)

Montevideo can be summed up pretty quickly. Montevideo is like a rice cracker, as Homer Simpson puts it “Hello hello hello taste? Where are you!?”
It’s a nice bland city, there’s nothing really wrong with it, old town is lovely, it’s located on the river/gulf, not too expensive and getting around is fairly easy. But it just lacks character, large high rise apartment buildings line a stinky litter-ridden gulf foreshore.  I have a 16gb memory card in my camera so i don’t mind snapping away at random things but we struggled to even find something worth photographing. That said we did spend 4 days there looking around for things to do, hoping we just had missed something absolutely amazing but it never happened.

Some dude on a horse in the main square

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Jesse in the markets

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