it is COLD!!!
and the apostrophe key on this keyboard doesn{t work. (case in point). other than that, though, life is good!
Sunday morning I went to the famous fair at Plaza Dorrego, but it was way too touristy for my taste, so i didn{t stay long. Caught the bus to the bus station and bought a ticket for an overnight trip to Mendoza - about $60 including dinner and breakfast, which i figured was a great deal since i was traveling and having a place to stay at the same time. Headed from the station to the Buquebus ferry terminal and caught a ferry to Colonia...and had my first "apparently i don{t understand spanish as well as i think i do" or "i don{t ask enough questions" experience of my trip - i had thought that the combination ticket i bought allowed me to get off in Colonia, hang out for a while, and then head to Montevideo, but the bus to Montevideo (MV) was waiting directly after i got off the ferry....and figuring i was kind of exhausted for an afternoon of wandering anyway and that i didn{t want to miss all available buses, i got right on the bus to MV. it was dark when i arrived, and i decided that since i didn{t have any Uruguayan pesos, i would just walk to the hotel i hoped had room for me....was a couple miles, but luckily i had stored my big backpack in the bus station in BsAs, so i wasn{t too weighed down. the hotel did have room and was in the Old City section of town, which was adorable...i{m excited to upload pictures when i can. Went to bed early and got up early, and explored...sat in a cafe and read, wandered, nothing too interesting to write about, but i really like the vibe of MV, and wouldn{t mind spending more time there. The travel guide said it{s the most laid back capital of South America, which is definitely more my style.
took the bus and ferry back to BsAs in the afternoon and caught the bus to Mendoza....i had bought a "first class" seat which means it extended completely flat like a bed and was really roomy. plus there was no one next to me so i had two pillows and extra space. :) dinner was good even though it was prepackaged, and i slept a fair amount before we were woken up for instant coffee with powdered milk and some crackers for breakfast. Caught a bus toward the center of Mendoza and walked to a hostel i had read about - nice and big, met a really friendly girl named Amber right away, and am going on a tour of some wineries with her and her husband John this afternoon. It is probably about 40 degrees, and it{s foggy, and i need to buy a scarf and gloves. :) i was definitely concentrating more on the it-is-warm-in-brazil part of my trip when i packed!
that{s all for now....hope you are all warmer than i am!
Sunday morning I went to the famous fair at Plaza Dorrego, but it was way too touristy for my taste, so i didn{t stay long. Caught the bus to the bus station and bought a ticket for an overnight trip to Mendoza - about $60 including dinner and breakfast, which i figured was a great deal since i was traveling and having a place to stay at the same time. Headed from the station to the Buquebus ferry terminal and caught a ferry to Colonia...and had my first "apparently i don{t understand spanish as well as i think i do" or "i don{t ask enough questions" experience of my trip - i had thought that the combination ticket i bought allowed me to get off in Colonia, hang out for a while, and then head to Montevideo, but the bus to Montevideo (MV) was waiting directly after i got off the ferry....and figuring i was kind of exhausted for an afternoon of wandering anyway and that i didn{t want to miss all available buses, i got right on the bus to MV. it was dark when i arrived, and i decided that since i didn{t have any Uruguayan pesos, i would just walk to the hotel i hoped had room for me....was a couple miles, but luckily i had stored my big backpack in the bus station in BsAs, so i wasn{t too weighed down. the hotel did have room and was in the Old City section of town, which was adorable...i{m excited to upload pictures when i can. Went to bed early and got up early, and explored...sat in a cafe and read, wandered, nothing too interesting to write about, but i really like the vibe of MV, and wouldn{t mind spending more time there. The travel guide said it{s the most laid back capital of South America, which is definitely more my style.
took the bus and ferry back to BsAs in the afternoon and caught the bus to Mendoza....i had bought a "first class" seat which means it extended completely flat like a bed and was really roomy. plus there was no one next to me so i had two pillows and extra space. :) dinner was good even though it was prepackaged, and i slept a fair amount before we were woken up for instant coffee with powdered milk and some crackers for breakfast. Caught a bus toward the center of Mendoza and walked to a hostel i had read about - nice and big, met a really friendly girl named Amber right away, and am going on a tour of some wineries with her and her husband John this afternoon. It is probably about 40 degrees, and it{s foggy, and i need to buy a scarf and gloves. :) i was definitely concentrating more on the it-is-warm-in-brazil part of my trip when i packed!
that{s all for now....hope you are all warmer than i am!
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