Colonia...

Following a day of wandering around Palermo and visiting the Evita museum, a hunger was starting to brew.   So what better way to stem this by heading back to Siga La Vaca for another Meat-athon.  Myself, Matt and Mike (Dutch guy from the hostel) took a long walk to the restaurant just to make sure the hunger was at its peak before devouring between us at least 2kg of meat.  We decided to take the long walk back too which kind of helped... but not enough for the pain to start kicking in in the morning with the realisation that we are indeed fat and have eaten far too much.

So, next morning; up very very early and not feeling fantastic.  Luckily enough we’d planned an easily day of just hopping across to Uruguay for the day to visit an old historical town called Colonia de Sacramento.  The ferry ride was bumpy to say the least and after Kate turned a lighter shade than pale it was time to head upstairs to try and gain some stability.

This town of Colonia is most famous for having changed hands many a time between the Portuguese and Spanish and was used as a bargaining tool if ever one of the nations needed something.  And that’s pretty much it...  There are a lot of old ruins within the town and with every ruin the guide would give us the history that once there stood a large house/church/fort/wall etc... Which was then blown up.  The guided tour lasted about 45 minutes and showed us the whole of the old city.  Two of the key sites in Colonia are that it has some of the cleanest waters in the area (despite being brown in colour from the high levels of clay) and the lighthouse has pretty good views stretching across town.  After walking around once again and taking a few photos we decided that it was time for lunch to be followed by the next 3 hours chilling out in the sun waiting for the ferry back to Buenos Aires.

All in all... not a fascinating one.

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