Coffee & TV - Blur

It may have come to your attention that I´ve been running out of interesting entry titles for my blog posts for a while now, so I´m now going to headline them with whatever song is in my head, usually the last one that I listened to on my iPod!

Decided to get out of the hustle and bustle of BA for a couple of days, so took a one-hour ferry ride over to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay. It´s an attractive seaside town that apparently used to be a key base for the Portuguese to smuggle goods into the Spanish colonies. Or something like that. Anyway, it has the feel of a Greek island with it s cobbled streets, green plazas with pavement cafes and Mediterranean-influenced architecture. For some reason there are also a lot of very old cars parked along the streets that don´t look like they´ve been moved for many years. But it´s a town with a lot of character and is a welcome refuge from the heat and crowds of BA. We haven´t done much here apart from take a bike ride out to some of the beaches nearby (on possibly the worst bike I´ve ridden since I was 10 - no gears, steel frame and a saddle that might as well have not been there).

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phileasdogg on January 20, 2009 from Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

from the travel blog: Planes, Trains & Taxiwallahs

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