Sadly Montevideo was a huge dissapointment - dirty, loud and lacking in any sort of culture or character. Moving on asap, we headed north to the town of Salto which is surrounded by pampas and thermal springs. The town itself is so lovely, with two main plazas filled with flowers and not so ugly statues. It probably helps that the sun has been shining for the 3 days we've been here, although I´d be optimistic in saying it's hot. We found a really cute place to s...

The places we've been to so far have all had a distinctly European flavour so we decided that in order to see a more 'traditional' side of South America we would head over to Uruguay, a tiny little country with a shipwreck-lined coast and where horse and carts share the roads with cars straight from the '50s. We took the ferry from Buenos Aires at the ridiculously early time of 9am for the hour long trip across. The trip was one of the weirdest we've been on so f...