Colonia del Sacrimento, the oldest city in Uruguay, is a chilled, quaint little town about 2 hours west of Montevideo by bus, and we had an awesome time there. It was first founded in 1680 by the Potuguese as a smuggling port to get goods accross to Buenos Aires, and then Portugal and Spain spent the next few hundred years fighting over it. The old part of the city has now been declared a UNESCO world heritage site, so most of the old buildings have been preserve...

Our bus arrived in Buenos Aires at around midday on Friday 2 March. We had to walk about 2 kilometers from the bus station to the port to catch the connecting ferry to Montevideo, which wasn't so much fun in the heat and with all our stuff. The ferry is quite big - takes hundreds of people and there is a restaurant and a decent sized duty-free shop on board. The journey takes 3 hours, so we arrived late in the evening. Our hostel was overlooking one of the main p...