Blogs from Colonia del Sacramento, West, Uruguay, South America - page 16

D'abord, la fin de Buenos Aires... Nous avons terminé notre séjour d'une semaine comme prévu avec notre partie de foot. Wow! Ambiance tout simplement malade, comme nous nous en doutions, cela n'a RIEN à voir avec une partie des Canadiens de Montréal, même en séries éliminatoires (sauf peut-être lors des affrontements Canadiens - Nordiques!!). Les gens sont survoletés, ils sont fous, des fanatiques! Et pourtant, deux clubs d'Argentine s'affrontaient, deux clubs de la même ville! Nous avons eu droit à un match fort excitant, nous étions du côté des locaux, Independente, et ils ont perdu de chaude lutte 3-2 contre La Boca. Nous avons filmé des images et des sons qui rendront une idée plus juste de ce que nous avons vécu que les quelques photos prises... Mais certains faits peuvent vous expliquer un peu la ... read more

We took a fast ferry ride across the mouth of La Plata river, but it still took about an hour. You can't see Uruguay from Buenos Aires...that's how wide this river is. We arrived in Colonia del Sacramento, got a really nice room in the old colonial part of town and enjoyed a great sunset here. The next day we rented a 4x4 golf cart and cruised this tiny town built by the Spanish colonial government. After enjoying the day in Colonia we caught a bus to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. Montevideo was an interesting place...nice upon first glance, but odd things seemed to happen to us. The taxi driver we got from the bus station to the hotel we found was a really nice and helped us understand some things about Uruguay. He told ... read more

Feels like we have been on the Atkins diet for the last few days, with lots of meat, meat and more meat. After 3 nights in Buenos Aires, we made a ferry crossing to Uruguay yesterday to a small historic town called Colonia Del Sacremento in time for a great sunset over the estuary of the Uruguay river. Heading back to Buenos Aires for a Saturday night out (based on what we´ve seen so far, we will probably sleep until 11.00pm then head out for dinner), and then another monster bus ride across Argentina to the Lake District. Must admit to being a little bit jealous of those of you watching the Tour de France in London today, and also the weather we are seeing at Wimbledon today. It is quite cold here, and expected to ... read more

31 maj Tidigt pa morgonen den 31 maj tog vi en snabbfarja av katamarantyp fran Buenos Aires i Argentina, over sundet, till Colonia i Uruguay. Allt fran incheckning (ja de hade incheckning av bagage), passkontroll och security check till fikaservicen som gavs da vi satt i vara saten ombord, kandes som att vara pa en flygning. Det forsta vi mottes av i Uruguay var forfallna hus och vagar samt fattigdom. Men sa snart vi tagit oss till den gamla stadsdelen fran 1600-talet, mottes vi av ett helt annat Uruguay. Vackra, val underhallna hus och sma sota kullerstensgrander fordelade over en udde som landvagen skyddades av en befastning. Vi hyrde en Beach Buggy som Johan till sin besvikelse snart upptackte hade en maxhastighet om 25km/h. Den forde oss anda runt till de mer avlagsna sevardheterna i ... read more

Hola a todos ! Currently we are in Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay. But let´s update you first on our last great days in Buenos Aires, where we are still going to return twice in the coming weeks ! So Buenos Aires, definitely a city to check out ! We walked for hours and hours through several interesting neighbourhoods. Palermo Viejo is an artistic, charming part of the city with lots of trendy galeries, bars and restaurants. It´s also called Palermo Soho and for sure it has a feel of NYC ! Of course a tango-show was part of our program ! (we still need to do the classes...). We met a Mexican guy who had taken his very cute, 82-year old mother to BA for Mothers day. They gave us many good advices for survival ... read more