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Published: September 16th 2005
After two days in Buenos Aires (of which more later) we boarded a high speed ferry to cross the Rio del Plata which is some 45 km wide (!!) to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay.
Colonia is a historic Portuguese / Spanish style old town preserved as it was 2 hundred years ago (UNESCO heritage site). Narrow cobbled streets with cafes & restaurants in white-painted colonial style buildings under blue sky, spring sunshine, oranges & lemons on the trees, parakeets squawking overhead in the palm trees - what have we done to deserve this?!
Today we visited Conchillas - some 50km away - with a Spanish speaking taxi driver to investigate the site of Pete's dad's birth & early childhood. We found the "English houses" and stone-cutting plant there preserved as a museum. (Pete's paternal grandfather was an engineer working on the supply of stone from here for the building of the Puerto Nuevo in Buenos Aires in 1915).
We were given a conductred tour by a very enthusiastic local historian who (you guessed it!) only spoke loud & excited Spanish. Pete responded in similar style in English, then we all took photos of each other ... and
exchanged email addresses!!
Back to BA on Sunday and on with the Argentinian leg of the trip.
(Used one & a half memory cards full of photos already ....!!)
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Can't wait for the slide-show!
Sounds like you are having a wicked time, and everything is going well. One and a half memory cards of photos already eh - don't expect me to be hanging around for 2 days to look at them all when you return!!!!