Colonina - Day 15 - 14/10/2012 (Sunday) Starting to spot a pattern now. Early wake up, early taxi to the bus station to get an early bus. Luckily this one was only a couple of hours. We arrived in Colonina about 11 and got a taxi to the hotel. Colonina is a tiny little town which in the olden days was used as a port to move products from Uruguay to Argentina. It's also famous for being the place where you hire golf buggies to go round the town, hence that is th...

Montevideo - Day 13 - 12/10/2012 (Friday) Another early start and guess what???? Another bus!! Only 6.5 hours this time though. Sarah and I got the front seats again looking out of the view. Although we both fell asleep for the first 3 hours. We arrived into Montevideo (the capital of Uruguay) about 1 and jumped in taxis to the hotel. Checked in and went straight out. We walked to the old quarter through a mixture of really old and grand architecture to modern ...

Salto (Uruguay) - Day 12 - 11/10/2012 (Thursday) The bus we were on seemed to spend more time stopped than moving and seemed to take forever. Finally about half 5 in the morning it was time to get off. We were dropped under a bridge in the side of a motorway. However there were taxi's waiting on the other side. After crossing the taxi's then drove us to the border. They helped us do our 6th border crossing in under 2 days. They then drove us into Salto. As it ...