We caught a bus to Tacuarembo and arrived at 9pm on the third. The tourist office at the bus station was closed, so we just caught a taxi to the Hotel Plaza, watched a TV program on how to make a parrilla, so no need to go to cooking class. We had more parrilla for tea, in a really interesting restaurant, lots of horse stuff on the walls, horse shoes, stirrups, whips etc. We walked to the bus station to see the tourist office, the staff their could not speak English, and we could not understand them or figure out how to visit the places they suggested so we found out about tickets out of town and bought tickets for the next evening to Melo. There is a big goucho display on in this town in
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