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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

Jesse in the markets

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