Sunday 22ndJanuary We are cruising slowly up the River Plate having just left Montevideo Uruguay. Its hot and humid and we have spent some of the day walking with a guide round the old part of the city looking at the architecture. Lots of Art Deco and Art nouveau mixed in with colonial Spanish. The city has a beautiful theatre and a couple of very good art galleries, which we visited. It was deserted, being Sunday and everyone at the beach or elsewhere, but definitely not on the streets. Again an attractive city, perhaps worth another visit. Uruguay has no minerals, coal, oil or gas. Agriculture and just recently tourism are the main employers. Seven percent unemployment so they are not doing so badly. We’ve had our last meal on board, received the bill for the
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