EL TOUR GRANDE

The next day and last day saw us doing pretty much the same thing the day before… walkin round town and poppin by some local museos.

MJ decided to do an impromptu yoga session by the cliff…

Is the camera on? wha?

We busted out the gorilla tripod which we bought especially for this trip, finally!

We noticed they had really nice trash bins throughout the isla.

Perhaps the best thing we saw in the Colonia were these amazing ancient world maps drawn by The Portuguese and Spaniards. I”m a big fan nice shapes, and the artisan cartograpers certainly didn’t disappoint!

Is Magellan here yet? How about Christophe Columbo? When are those foo’s comin’ to fetch us?

We killed the remaining time with a leisurely late lunch and thought we’d end our visit with a nice flan con dulce de leche.

By this time we learned the difference between “monedas” (coins) and “billetas” or in Espagnoli – “dinero”, and what “effectivo” means… the bill, not “la cuenta”. In fact all Espagnish is not de same from España to Mexico to Argentina.

All in all, Colonia was a nice slow time. Montevideo it is next time!

We woke up the next day with great expectations from Colonia.

The day did not exactly start off right. You see, we have just been to Mexico where the breakfasts were amazing, Argentina was so-so, standard continental, and we expected a lot from a quaint B&B in Uruguay, but sadly, little miss Myung Jin was not happy. In fact she was a bit frumpy and went a bit mad.

Wha? This is it?

Well, at least the patio was nice ;-)

We wanted to see what the other rooms would be like, so we decided to change rooms, got a bigger one that’s more towards the front of the building, huge room, enough for three!

The rest of the day saw us wandering about aimlessly around this sleepy town. Reminded me of Toledo or Sevilla…

+cruz decided to start “Uruguay Lab” while he was in town ;-)

A local jewellery designer we met. MJ fancied the leather necklace top left.

This is one sleepy town indeed! For our own amusement, we played with the local chats.

How the locals get around – MadMax stylee…

The day ended with us watching the sun set at the local docks. There was nothin’ else we could think of doing, not out of romance but frankly for a lack of choice ;-)

In search of something more authentically America Sud, we hopped on over to Colonia del Sacramento by way of the BuqueBus ferry, which took about una hora.

Our refuge in Colonia was the quaint Posada del Lobo with its authentically antique rooms.

Meson de la Plaza was our stop for dinner and it did not disappoint! The flan was delish.