I returned yesterday, Saturday, from a week-long trip to Uruguay. It consisted of three separate events: the trip there; Montevideo; and Punta del Diablo.
The trip there: I took the midnight ferry to Uruguay and made some Uruguayan friends who said I should support the Montevideo team Peñarol. One of them has a daughter in North Carolina and he wanted to give me a box of stuff to give to her once I return to the US; I told him I lived nowhere near North Carolina!
Montevideo: The city looked very impressive from across the harbor (probably what Manhattan looked like from the East River in the 1880s) but the city itself was disappointing. It's an okay city, average for Latin America...I guess it's just not what I looking for. It does have a nice beach though, so it has that going for it. And a great chivito place in the called Chivitos Marcos in the Pocitos neighborhood.
Punta del Diablo: This is the place I was really trying to get to so getting there was a great relief. It's a small and quiet dirt-road surf slash beach town. I was there four nights and am happy to report I did very little during my stay. The hostel staff said a Lonely Planet writer had been there a few weeks earlier so expect this little bit of paradise to be totally different in two years; come here while it's still peaceful!!!
Overall impressions: Positive. Everyone says Uruguayans are nicer and more tranquilos than Argies but I've found Argies nice, too. One thing though: it's as expensive as the California...I don't know how Uruguayans can live there!
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