Hopped on a little bus for the three hour jaunt to Colonia - 'Uruguay's jewel in their crown' - and for once it was a Lonely Planet top tip! It is a really pretty little place, all cobbledy streets and cute coloured houses beside the sea with BA just squinting distance across the pond. Checked into our hostel with a little courtyard and big open fire in the common room but sadly for us no private room, instead a 7 bed dorm with no heating...yet again!...

Headed across the Rio Plata on a super fast catamaran to land ourselves in Uruguay, another country, another stamp in the passport! Caught a taxi with a mentalist driver who insisted on giving us a speed-tour of the city despite the rain and the dark on the way to our hostel and refused to accept that our espanol was really limited....preferring instead to snap his fingers at us when he considered we were not paying enough attention....! Finally reached Red Hoste...