May 21st, 2010 | Posted in Blog, News, Travel, Travel Stories | 2 Comments
Tags: Colonia, south america, uruguay
After BA Tigre and Iguazu we were feeling a little tired and wondered what would be the best way to spend Bickies (Ben and Vicky’s) last three days of Vacation before they headed back to the states. After some deliberation we decided to go to the UNESCO World Heritage town of Colonia Uruguay. It is a town where the Portuguese used to smuggle goods over to BA when the areas were still disputed between the colonial powers of Spain and Portugal.
We took the ferry from BA and checked into our lovely B&B/hostel with a balcony and a view to the sea. Unfortunately Bickie didn’t have such luck getting a room where the windows shook violently every time someone turned on hot water (which was frequently). Needless to say they moved to another B&B the next day.
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May 5th, 2010 | Posted in Blog, News, Travel, Travel Stories | 6 Comments
Tags: la paloma, surf, surfing, Travel, uruguay
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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