Hey Ho! me again,

Going to be covering three cities in one here, Salto just up the road from "Fray Bentos" (yes you steak and kidney pie lovers I kid you not!!), Montevido the Capital and also the lovely Colonia.....

Arrived in Salto in the afternoon after a very long but comfortable overnight bus journey, there isn`t a huge amount to do in Salto but the people are incredibly friendly, it has some great restaurants, is very safe and has some natural hot spring and a purpose built Spa. Very unlike me as it was (there was no bungy jump or sky-diving to spend my money on) so?I took full advantage of the spa facilities with a mud body wrap, massage, facial and to top it off a long soak in the thermal pools - I could get used to this pampering lark!

?Next day, we headed off to the capital Montevido... we had a hotel in a brilliant location right in the centre of the city! after a few hours chilling, shopping and getting our bearings we headed out to eat, in true Uruguyian style this was at 11pm! then headed out to a club at 2pm, the drinks were of Spainish proportions and the music was all Spainish too, needless to say a good time was had by all....

Next day we headed off to Colonia, just an hour and a half ferry ride to Buesons Aires. The weather here for some strange reason was amazing and as soon as we got to our next hotel we dumped our bags headed off to get some lunch then set off on mopeds and buggies for an exploration of the town?and beaches. This was a very relaxed little town, but a great place for a getaway from all the hussle and bussle of the big smoke!!

 One thing I did note about Uruguay was that being a red-head I was by no means in the minority (un-like the rest of South America where everyone but everyone has dark hair and dark skin) in fact there are at least as many of us here as there are in the U.K, dare I say possiblly more!!  Having had a nose of my Lonley Planet it seems that about 200 years ago here was an influx of errr Welsh into Uruguay and Argentina and to work the land and to build sheep farms!! there are parts of Patagonia where they STILL speak Welsh!! (I kid you not!)