Uruguay for the day

Having failed to get to Uruguay in our first week we took the opportunity to have a day on the other side of the river in the small Portuguese town of Colonia. An early start, for us, and an expensive boat trip saw the two of us disembarking mid morning in the new port.

Colonia is a lovely wee town to stroll round, with many cobbled streets and ocean views. Historically it was set up by the Portuguese to allow them to smuggle goods into Buenos Aires but with its location being perfect for military purposes it has been fought over several times, switching between Spanish and Portuguese. This makes the museums rather interesting as they are all split between artifacts and architecture from each of the European nations that ruled the place.