Today we have to get up at 5.30am. Getting up at this unearthly hour always leaves me feeling grumpy and slightly sick...but we are arriving by night bus into Montevideo, which - we manage to later extract from Alfresco...is the capital of Uruguay. The drive down takes us through some beautiful Argentinian countryside in the early hours of the morning, deep dark forests with little fires burning, strange little swiss chalets, and then the Uruguayan scenery is just as lush ( i wonder how many times i´ll use the word lush in this blog - i may ban myself from now on) , lovely misty green woodlands, silvery lakes and a sky of the palest pink. A good reason, no the only reason to be awake at dawn i think. To see the petal colours of
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