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Some Vacation Tales

Published by Esteban Glas on February 28th, 2007 | This post lacks all category except for: Family, travel

I realized I didn’t tell much about our vacation in Uruguay, thus I thought I’d tell a write of a couple of anecdotes.

Our trip started a little bit bumpy, to put it some way. The first leg of the voyage was done by ferry, 4 hours from Buenos Aires to Colonia. The boat, Eladia Isabel, although a bit old and not too well maintained is somewhat nice. The only issue was that we had the privilege of travelling with 500+ Football (soccer) fans. They were going to watch a match at Montevideo the next day. Thus we had 4 hours of chanting, insulting and overheated temperaments, that ended up in a fight amongst a couple of guys. Interestingly neither those in charge at buquebus (the ferry company) or the port authorities did much to control the angry horde.

After getting off the ferry and into a bus for another 5 hours we arrived at La Paloma. With a beautiful day, little sleep and the usual beach excitement we drop our things at the hotel and headed towards the beach… at 1PM; had some lunch over there, watching the ocean, swam a little bit and got a little bit overexposed to the sun. I guess the excitement of going to the beach and everything made us a little bit irresponsible regarding skin care.

Days went on and off easily we walked a lot, the weather was great. Food was awesome (I don’t think I ever had so much ocean-provided meals in my life).

It only rained one day; the day we decided to go to “Cabo Polonio”, a sort of hippie-naturist reserve, only accessible through some 4WD trucks. We spent a couple of hours at the  beach when I noticed a storm front quickly approaching us. One last dive into the waves, and I told Lu we’d better hurry up; I hadn’t ended saying this when I felt the first drom on my back. 10 seconds later it was pouring.

If there is one thing Uruguay should work on is their public transportation. It sucks. Big time. Soaking wet, amidst the rain and a 30°F temperature drop we waited 3 hours for the bus back to la Paloma. I need to buy a car for next vacation.

The return was slow, and nice. We had a great time altogether, rested a lot, and I could prove to myself I can spend 8 days without my ThinkPads and cell phone.

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