Since we last spoke we´ve continued our trip through Uruguay and I´m pleased to report Alison has not caused anyone else to strike her. We left Paysandu after one night and headed to Mercedes. There was some kind of event on there so there were no rooms at the inns and we therefore spent the day mooching around town before getting a bus to Colonia de Sacramento arriving mid monsoon. Too be honest not staying Mercedes was no bad thing as Salto, Paysandu and Mercedes are all pretty much the same and while nice enough there´s not a lot to see.

Unlike the three previous towns we visited Colonia was much more geared up for tourists, partly due to it´s old town which was a key Spanish port and partly due to it being the place where most people arrive in Uruguay as it sits on the other side of the River Plate to Buenos Aires. The River Plate is absolutely massive, having spent a day wandering around the old town we spent the day on a beach by the river, it´s almost impossible to comprehend, as you gaze out to the horizon, with the only land you see being islands, that it´s not the sea.

Colonia is a nice little town to spend a day or two but having done that we will be off to Montevideo.