After spending 4 days in the big city of Montevideo we felt it was time to hit the countryside and see what the Uruguayian coastline looked like. We took a 4 hour bus ride up to La Paloma with the hope that we would be able to catch some surfing in this sleepy little surf town. From all that we read this was to be a good place to hang out for a couple days and not pay the big city prices... lesson learned, don´t believe everything you read! It wasn´t that it w...

We woke up early to catch the slow ferry to Colonia Uruguay, followed by a 3 hour bus ride south to Montevideo - the capital city that many refer to as the little sister to Buenos Aires. We were looking forward to our trip to Montevideo because we had used Airemiles points to stay at the Four Points Sheraton in a huge room with a jacuzzi bath. We jumped in a taxi from the bus station and, after some time trying to figure out what our taxi driver wanted as payme...