We are in Colonia del Sacramento. Before I talk about here I've remembered a couple of things about Montevideo. When we arrived at the hostel the young girl on the desk ran through the usual. Leave your key when you go out, breakfast is 8-10, no guns, no drugs and no alcohol in the rooms. Then she lent forward very conspiratorially and said ' you look ok though so as long as you are discreet you can have alcohol in your room'. Oh brilliant but I've got t...

We left Florianopolis for a long bus trip to Montevideo the capital of Uruguay. We had to change at Porto Alegre. The bus journeys are not as bad as they sound. The first part was in daylight through some lovely countryside. The bus is comfortable and we had good seats with no one in front of us. We arrived at Porto Alegre bus station at 6pm and had a 4 hour wait but a beer and some food and the time was soon gone. We climbed aboard the new bus at 10pm. We...