Beautiful Colonia

Beautiful Colonia

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March 12th 2007
Another bloody early morning - seems we are constantly up earlier than we were to go to work in the UK. Who said this was a holiday??! Of course its worth every second. You can pop over to Uruguay - a place called Colonia de Sacremento - in just 1 hour from Buenos Aires. They say it is the gem of Uruguay and they are not lying. Really pretty and as ever we got glorious weather. We did the L ... read more

South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento

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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