It is strange trying to recall what happened the day after I finished my last blog, but I´ll do my best.

On Friday we spent most of the day lounging around in the park by a lake. Then when we left at about 8pm it started to fill up with hundreds and hundreds of people going for a jog or cycle. Back at the hostel we met some Icelandic guys who were also staying the hostel in Palermo. I spoke endlessly with 2 of them about all aspects of football, including Icelandic players, the Premier League and Football Manager addiction. In the evening we went out with the guys from Iceland and a girl from Argentina toa club called Muzeum. Its a very different nightlife here, clubs start to fill up at 3 or 4 in the morning, so we got there at half 3 and stay til 6. Very odd

Woke up late the next day, and Hannah was soon off to Bob Dylan which she reall enjoyed. I walked through BA with Johan and Henrik - 2 of the Icelandics - and went to a market and some parks. Basically just saw more of BA which was too far from the orginial hostel. I waited up for Hannah from the Bob Dylan concert like a worried parent and met more people at the hostel, and ended up having dinner cooked for me and the guys from Iceland by an Italian girl who they knew - can´t complain!

On Sunday we decided to leave BA and head north to Tigre, a suburb of BA an hours train ride north. It wasn´t the most pleasant place, though it was on the river which was quite nice, but we only stayed a night, before getting a ferry very earl the next morning to Carmelo, a small town across the water in Uruguay. We turned up at a dodgy port with nothing much going for it, but walked into el centro and found tourist information and ended up at a very basic, and the cheapest hotel in town. We headed down to the beach after that which, although only on the bank of a river, was sandy and very nice. We relaxed there for a while. Something notable about Carmelo was the amount of mopeds and bicycles around. Me and Hannah decided to investigate and ended up hiring a moped for 24 hours (don´t worry mum, the roads were very quiet and I drove very carefully!). This made getting around a lot easier so we got to see more of the town. The next day we did exactly that and relaxed on the beach for hours and i managed to get some Uruguayans to invite me to join them playing beach football, just by standing there looking really keen. Went for dinner in the Plaza.

That brings us to today. We got a bus for 1 hour to another town on the coast in Uruguay called Colonia, although since we got here all I´ve done is catch up on emails and do this, so I´ll leave this for now!

Still having a great time, feel very independent which is really nice, and am really enjoying slowly but surely improving my Spanish.