Hola todos! This is the first blog for the final side quest of this adventure. A trip to Uruguay!
So after leaving little miss passive aggressive’s Airbnb I was soon in an Uber and went to the Colonia Express terminal where I was soon reunited with my good friend who is totally not Ed Sheeran and his husband and we had a good catch up and chinwag about what we had been up to since we parted ways back in Bolivia.
Well those fellas went up to Santa Cruz which is 8 hours north of Sucre and from what ed tells they had an *amazing* time there. Might have to visit the economic powerhouse of Bolivia myself if I ever go back! They stayed for a while then went into Argentina.
While I was in Patagonia they spent about a month in Buenos Aires then another few weeks in a place called Delta Tigre about an hour from Buenos Aires basically living in a hovel on stilts in a swamp next to the river, it was an hour boat ride to even pick up groceries from what they told me. They were glad to be moving on they said.
Back to the present we had some time to kill before we could board the ferry so we had some breakfast and a cheeky celebration beer for getting out of our predicaments. Soon it was time to get ready, check in was quick and simple and so was immigration, it is done for both sides at the outbound port on this ferry so your quickly on your way once on the other side.
It’s a bit of a bunfight but soon were aboard and like the degenerates we are we booked it straight for the bar and got ourselves some coronas since we weren’t exactly spoiled for choice here. It’s only a 1.15 hour ferry crossing to Colonia. Still we had to wonder what the record for how many beers someone has pounded down them in this short crossing was? We had a few but weren’t trying to beat it today!
The crossing was quite pleasant seeing the rundown parts of Buenos Aires leave us and hitting the muddy but open waters of the Rio de la plata estuary. Before long it’s land ho and we are soon docked up and are walked through a fancy walkway that resembles something of an airports arrivals hall then walked downstairs have to put our bags through metal detectors and then the best part? A 2 hour bus transfer to Montevideo! Yay!
While the buses were decent coaches they did cram everyone they could in there so we all got split up and also the windows were steamed up so you couldn’t see anything outside. Nevertheless we are soon into Montevideo, we quicky get our stuff together and grab an Uber to el centro where we go out seperate ways to check into our Gaffs and reconvene later for some more beers and grub. We get ourselves booked onto the obligatory walking tour for the next morning.
Long day but has been excellent to catch up!
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