Second day in Uruguay - today we visited famous Punta del Este at the ocean shore. A 2:30 hour bus ride took us to Uruguays most famous beach resort. Fortunately the weather was close to perfect, as there were no clouds at all we were able to spend a beautiul sunny day at the sea. Unlike during the south american winter - Punta was not very busy. Despite the nice weather, we pretty much had the whole town for us. We did walk all around the peninsula and saw the pretty houses in the old part of the village at the [View Full Entry]

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Hola todoas, Here I am in San Carlos, the birth place of my mother. Diego and I were here for 4 days. It was great seeing your average Uruguayan town. I saw lots of family, I mean lots, I never knew I had so many cousins haha. We arrived to once again my favorite meal, milanesas, cause my tia celeste knows and makes the best. It was so delicious, I was happy. WE spent the next day seeing all 3 sights of Sna Carlos, the church, a museum, and i forget the other haha. The church was cool, behind it there [View Full Entry]

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We don´t know how the idea of a road trip got in our head, but after checking out the cost of hiring a car in Uruguay ($57 a day - but you get th 22% VAT back!) we decided to spend a few days driving along the Uruguayan coast. [img= http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v300/145/67/223401787/n223401787_6940088_8943.jpg center] It's all very well renting a car - but which way are we going? By complete luck (although Adam claims that it was his planning), we had a bit of a heat wave whilst we were on our drive. Score. Driving along palm-tree lined roads next [View Full Entry]

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Greetings faithful readers! I am full of cocktails paid for by Daddy and therefore thought it a fabulous idea to blog! We are currently in Punta del Este in Uruguay, it is a fairly standard beach town, we´re here in Autumn so the town is practically dead, I keep expecting to see zombies there are so few people! However the hotel we are staying at is far from standard, it´s gorgeous. It has a spa center and one of those pools where the water goes right up to the edge. It´s right on the beach and is gorgeous. Shame the wind [View Full Entry]

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After a month in a lended apartment in this "two month" beach, we know that the season ended after February. In fact, the high season is from December 26 to January 31; a middle season is the three first weeks in February; later you can say you are in low season until end of March or perhaps April. Nevertheless, we found that if you want good weather (a little cols for the sea) and nice promenades, then you coul like Punta del Este in March or even in April. Another problem: it is more expensive with time due to the falling [View Full Entry]

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Uruguay… I made a quick stop in Colonia and Punta del Este, Uruguay but the weather was not cooperating! Colonia is a quaint little town. It was beautifully situated on the coast. After the agent called 7 places he found me a place to sleep at a little bed and breakfast type place called "Posada de Angel". There were angels everywhere; figurines, paintings, etc. I don't think this was a coincidence but that's just my opinion!!! Punta del Este is a beautiful vacation area, so I'm told. I didn't see any of it because it was cold and rainy but I [View Full Entry]

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Hi, beach life is seriously draining I can tell you! Sleeping lots and finding it far too difficult to motivate myself to keep the blog up.... Anyway quickly, had great time in Ecuador, then took overnight bus back to Lima - this turned into the worse journey yet in South America.... 30 hours on a warm bus with dodgy air conditioning, three sreaming infants, a family of about 20 from hell swapping seats the entire time and screaming at each other down the bus, crap seats, terrible food..... arghhhhh! Anyway survived somehow although at the time we thought we would afraid [View Full Entry]

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Meikahan kirjottelee tanne nakojaan joka paiva jotain, mutta tanaan oli kiistatta aika pitka paiva, joten samahan se on jotain tarinoida. Aamulla siina kahdeksan aikaan herasin auringon lampoon teltasta ruta-1 valtatien varresta Colonia del Sacramenton rajalta. Eilinen matka siihen maantien penkallekin oli pitka ja hikinen. Coloniassa meni pitka tovi sita loputonta hiekkarantaa ihastellessa ja ympariinsa kavellessa. Viereisessa Real de San Carlosin kylassa oli esim mahtipontinen harkataisteluareena, joka ehti valmistuttuaan olla 2 vuotta kaytossa ennenkuin Uruguay kielsi harkataistelun jo vuon [View Full Entry]

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I guess some of you may have been wondering where i've been the last few weeks and why my blogs suddenly stopped, well it was nothing to do with getting kidnapped, turns out Justin Timberlake felt threatened when he saw me and so bought my silence in a vain attempt to stop me from reaching my public.....good luck trying to silence me!! Getting serious for just a moment, as a lot of you are probably aware, I have actually been home for the last three weeks due to the death of my father. It's been a pretty tough time and I [View Full Entry]

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Well, I´m really only writing this because I haven´t done one for ages. It seems I´ve gotten pretty bad at this. Ah well. So, I finished my Spanish classes. I think I´m speaking reasonably well again now, so it acheived its purpose. I´m not sure I learnt much new, but I´m not sure I expected to. The school and classes were OK, especially for the absurdly low price, but not nearly as sociable as the school I went to last time. Not that it needs to be, I still managed to have myself an excellent bloody time. Anyway, now I'm in [View Full Entry]

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