Another bus, another lunch, Argentina

No tourists here

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September 5th 2007
When there is very little information on the internet about a town, you are a bit short on options, especially when you arrive late at night, so the only place I had found out to stay in Melo was the Grand Hotel, so we taxied there and took a room for the night. It turned out to be the most expensive place we had stayed in, in South America, full of business people. Paul went looking for another ... read more

South America » Uruguay » East » Melo

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A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more