We found that due to certain buses not running every day we would have to return to Montevideo and catch a bus from there to Paso de los Toros. This meant leaving Colonia at 4:50 am. On the bus we watched as lots of police got on the same bus. We watched as they greeted each other, some got kisses and some not. In Uruguay it was a single kiss only. We wondered why some people didn't get a kiss. Because they didn't know them well? Or perhaps they didn't like them? Or they had a cold? Anyway, it passed the time. We waited an hour or two in Montevideo then got on a bus for Paso de los Toros. It was 3.5 hours. We had a brief chat with some missionaries of the Mormon persuasion.
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