A Maze of Cobbled Beauty

One of Colonia's many cobbled streets

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Uruguay - A Tale of Two Cities (Colonia del Sacramento vs. Montevideo)

May 6th 2013
Tuesday 30 April to Thursday 2 May Another beautifully sunny day...to begin with! So, Tuesday morning it was off to the ferry port to catch the Colonia Express. Another taxi ride where my heart was in my mouth, flitting between buses, cars, motorcycles and pedestrians. As is always the case, we made it in one piece. How there are not continuous traffic accidents here I don't know. P ... read more

South America » Uruguay

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

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