Take some cobbled stone streets, some beautiful historic buildings sitting on a peninsular and surrounded by the sea, a relaxed "no hurry vibe" with its people, and you have the recipe for Colonia and two days of a bit more relaxed pace for us. We even made time to get haircuts and massages.We arrived from Montevideo by bus in the early evening and found our lovely little and reasonably priced, Posada (guest house) on foot. We dumped our packs and went out walkin...

"That sounds like Tango music!" I exclaimed as we neared a park in the centre of Montevideo, Uruguay. The sound of it was very fresh in our heads as it was only the previous night we had been to a tango show in Buenos Aries. Sure enough as we got closer, we could see couples dancing the tango in the open air - average age 75?! What a delight to watch oldies dance the dramatic tango, totally in sync with each other. My guess is these couples had been together for ...