- Food: Tarte tortin at the Richmond by myself, the best empanadas, enormous licuado, fatty chorizo. Montevideo is similar prices to Argentina for food but the portions are all HUGE with heaps of french fries with everything. Mate rules here more than in Argentina. 80% of the population are hooked and everyone carries around a pouch containing the flask, huge supply of mate leaves and the decorative bowl type things with a pipe that they drink it out of. - Area: The smallest capital city (only took about 2 hours to walk it), very old fashioned. Lots of stalls selling socks for some reason and lots of 'hair extension' beauty parlours! - People: Old and old fashioned with it. Hardly saw a young person and certainly no other English speakers. Felt like an alien and got
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