Second sector, day one. Slightly disappointing day. We hadn't made arrangements for anything and had planned to sort it out on the dockside or in the Tourist Information Office. For one reason or another neither happened. So the girls grabbed a cab to a local mall and we took one to the Japanese Gardens. Apparently, on a Monday all the cultural sites are closed. So we wandered along a polluted river by a slum area to the Botanical Gardens, but couldn't find...

We were due to arrive at 8am and we arrived at 8am! Temperature was 23 when arrived and hit 34 during the day. I guess it'll be cooler soon when we sail past the glaciers in a weeks time. We moored right in town and just a couple of hundred yards from the dock was the Hop-On Hop-Off bus. Linda was on a ship's tour, so the rest of us took the HOHO bus. It was over two and a half hours for the full circuit. Montevideo is a fairly nice place, but I'm amazed by...