One of the last experiences during our stay in South America would be Uruguay. We booket tickets with the "Boquebus"-boat and decided to visit Colonia. An hour and two glass champagne each later we arrived in the cozy uruguayan city. This was a nice place to spend one of the first days as newly engaged :)
We ended up in a colorful and charming restaurant in the old town. We had some tasty fondue and I thought we had a good conversation as well. But I seemed to fail in entertaining my fiancè with good stories. He rather entertained himself building wine glass tower...
In the past, Uruguay was South America's best-kept secret with only a handful of South Americans popping in to enjoy the pristine beaches, atmospheric cities and huge steaks. Then the place became more affordable and people got curious. They came, loved it and went back home to tell their friends. The same did we....
In Colonia you could also enjoy the sight of charming old cars in many different shapes and colors.
It was mandatory to have a Mate when visiting Uruguay. We both had one and I can`t say I became a huge fan - I guess it is "you either love it or hate it"- thing. Bjørn Christian was quite interested and curious of this mate as any new things - as always. He tried his very best to like his new friend, but it wasn`t much convincing.
Mate is kind of a tea, containing stimulants such as caffeine, prepared by steeping dried leaves of either erva-mate (Portuguese)or yerba mate (Spanish)in hot water. It is the national drink in Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay and a common social practice in parts of Brazil, Chile, eastern Bolivia, Lebanon, and Syria.
The newly engaged couple in Uruguay! :)
Windy on the top of the lighthouse, but OH! what a fantastic view!
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