11 November 2006
From Buenos Aires, we hopped on a ferry and 45 minutes later arrived in the colonial town of Colonia, Uruguay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia,_Uruguay As Andrew´s mom, Kay, spent 2 years in Uruguay while she was working in the Peace Corps, we had a magical feeling crossing the river-estuary from Argentina to Uruguay.
Colonia is the oldest established town in Uruguay - founded in 1680 by the Portuguese. It is a quiet, clean, and beautiful place - quite a difference from the noise of the city. Have we mentioned that the meat is just as good in Uruguay as it is in Argentina?
These days, there is a wonderful old colonial section of the town with beautifully restored colonial houses and buildings. There are yummy restaurants and touristy little shops selling sweaters and assorted tchochkas. A few miles´walk from the old, colonial section is a bull-fighting ring that was built, but never used, because Uruguay passed a rule against bull-fighting soon after the building was created; it is currently falling into pieces.
Apparently Colonia rivals Havana, Cuba in the quantity of running and restored old American cars. We were delighted to see so many cars - as you can tell from the amount of pictures we took of them!
2 comments:
yay! for beautiful, quieter, Portuguese-founded towns!
that building with the courtyard full of plants is beautiful? is this whwere you stayed?????
yes, we stayed in that wonderful place with the cute courtyard (very astute of you!) - isn´t it just gorgeous? it sure is nice traveling with the ´rents!!!
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