´Don´t Cry for me Argentina...´

´Patricia´beer is brewed in Uruguay. This one´s for you ma!






Check out this exotic carport!

We are officially having a sweet sweet love affair on dear Buenos Aires with its neighboring colonial country Uruguay. We took a short 1hr ferry ride over to Colonia del Sacramento and quickly realized just how cozy and lovely this little town is. Colonia is a UNESCO world heritage sight and lives up to its name with its cobblestone streets and beach blotted coastline. Colonia has one main street where you either see people sipping Yerba Mate (a drink that is in the hands of several passing locals, that we have yet to try) or mozying along on scooters. In fact most of the locals drive scooters as opposed to vehicles and you can see several tourists flying around on them too, as well as golf carts for the more laid back visitors. Aaron and I rented a scooter each and had the time of our loves flying around the town and checking out every beach and side road that our little scooters could go. We saw things that we would never have on foot, like the beach where all of the locals go and the historic bullring that has a slight resemblance to the Colosseum in Rome.

We scootered around for about 7 full hours and are paying for it today with nasty sunburns! Luckily, it's overcast and on the breezy side because we had a horseback riding trip booked during peak sunlight hours. We just got back from 2.5 hours of crazy horseback riding escapades. It was just us, two Canadian girls and our "guide". I put it lightly because he didn´t speak a lick of English and looked about 15 years old. We ended up going on the most unsafe and unruly horseback riding trip that would hardly be considered safe by Canadian standards! Half of us had hardly been on horses before, one of the girls was practically flopping off from a disheveled saddle, my horse ran away because I hopped off to try and salvage things flying from one of the girls´backpack that unzipped during mid-gallop and the horses were freaked when we came up to the beach that had a higher than expected tide and branches in every direction gouging us and them. Our "guide" had fallen behind because he himself was trying to get his horse to calm down. All and all, it ended up being quite the adventure and we saw some amazing landscape and had more freedom then we could obviously handle!

We topped the night of at a beach side restaurant where we devoured delicious short ribs, a bottle of wine, potatoes and salad for only $9 bucks each, CDN! Parrillada is a Spanish term for BBQ and most of the restaurants here specialize in grilled meats and carry quite the selection, so we thought we should try it out and it was delicious. The people in Uruguay seem just as friendly as the Argentines and appear to speak better English. The restaurants here also carry more English oriented menus, probably because they depend on tourism as one of their main industries.

I will post more pics from beautiful Colonia when I get to a computer that doesn´t take 10 minutes to upload each photo! Ciao!