The bruises from beach football have been replaced by dozens of mozzy bites, and after two days of rain we decided enough was enough and we moved on from Montevideo further along the coast to Colonia. Montevideo itself was nice enough, was just a shame the weather was how it was. The only thing of note that happened was that we went out on Friday night for a fair old session, which I don't think the guy running the hostel appreciated that much when we rocke dup...

Well I'm now in Uruguay, but at times it felt like I would never get here! First of all we were grounded in Asuncion for an extra day because the bus we wanted had already gone by the time we reached the terminal, so we carted all our stuff back to Ed's and begged him to let us stay another night. The bus journey from Asuncion was a monster 22 hours, invloving three boarder crossings, none of which were quick and all of which were a farce. They wanted to check...