Tom: Just a quick blog to right a small wrong. Montevideo is actually much better than Asuncion. With much more to do. Yesterday, after describing the place incorrectly as having not much to do of any interest, we went to a cubist art gallery, a mausoleum, several awesome coffee shops and the seaside! It turns out that Uruguay has more bookshops than Buenos Aires, and an even greater appreciation for art too. We went to Joaquin Torres Garcia's art museum and con...

Tom: Hey all! 3 hours on a boat and 3 on a bus and we're in Montevideo, Uruguay (quite civilized travelling times considering our recent bus journeys!). Buenos Aires was beautiful and I'm vaguely missing it already. We got on a ferry from there to an old Portuguese smuggling town called Colonia del Sacramento. It was very pretty and had some nice things to see such as the town gateway, wharf and lighthouse, but any longer than the two hours we spent there would'...