In between visits to Buenos Aires we visited Uruguay. The boat from Buenos Aires to Colonia de Sacramento is pretty slick. We just turned up at the terminal, ordered our tickets, paid for them at another counter, went back to the original counter to collect our tickets and check in luggage (we didnt have any), went upstairs to customs control, got stamped out of Argentina, moved to another window to get stamped into Uruguay and got straight on to the ferry which was almost ready to leave. Colonia was a ghost town. But then it was Monday, so none of the museums were open (and the whole town is basically a museum) plus we pulled off our favourite trick of showing up during a national holiday. Colonia is, well, colonial. It seems to be
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