The Monaco of Uruguay, or so it's rumoured! Punta del este, a small peninsula on the eastern tip of Uruguay , it houses a port for some big fancy yachts, that at the moment is pretty empty, and some glorious beaches that the guidebooks declare "tone it, tan it, wax it, and put it on punta" well we have done none of the previous and apparently neither has anyone else we have seen on the beaches, we feel quite at home as our pasty white selves! In the port we saw some sea lions awaiting feed from the fish Market left overs, and I'm almost sure we saw one eat a sea gull!
Montevideo was a bit of a strange place, home to some multinational corporations and the massive independence square, but apparently not much more! Also there are lots of dead fish washing up on the beaches but for no apparent reason! On leaving BA we took a ferry to colonia, an then a bus Montevideo! We did have another cracking thunder storm in Montevideo and the rain really fell!
It's pretty strange at the minute as we are only 2 hours behind the UK but so far away! Not sure if that will change tonight as the americans change their clocks this week instead of last, but we shall see!
We return to Montevideo on Tuesday for a couple of nights before returning to BA, to see if some normality has returned after the previous weeks mourning!
Urugauy appears to be a well established country in financial terms, but this has made the place feel more expensive than Argentina, and from the fact you can but pretty much anything on the never never, it seems that the cost of living doesn't match the income of most people!
Also Katie has a new obsession, Dulce de Leche! A kind of imitation caramel that seems to be put on everything!
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