We also checked out the Puerta de Campo which houses the old fortified walls of the fort. We then purchased a museum ticket and found that this 60p ticket entitled us to visit not only one but six museums! Unfortunately we bought the ticket half an hour before closing time so only managed one that day, which housed some very mad giant petrified mushrooms!! Thankfully the ticket was valid for the next day so we knew we could continue our sightseeing before we took the bus to Montevideo then.

Feeling rather tired we headed back to the hostel where thankfully our room was ready. The room was lovely and was more like a mini apartment than just a hostel double room. We had a bedroom, small lounge and our own bathroom and all for a ridiculously cheap price! The TV had an English movie channel so we chilled out for the rest of the day

watching films and trying to check out a few things on the free internet computer! It was such a dinosaur of a machine and the internet was so slow that it didn’t take us long to realise that at times like these you’re best just leaving the internet well alone as its far more hassle than its worth!

The next morning we were up handy as we wanted to make the most of our last morning in Colonia. We were taking the 2 p.m. bus to Montevideo so had the morning free to explore the rest of the museums! We figured some of them wouldn’t take long especially the tile museum, but we wanted to make sure we’d seen them all. We started off in the Portuguese museum and this was fabulous. There were hundreds of original maps and they were fascinating to see. The detail was incredible and it was funny to see the lay of the land. Antarctica was called Terra Australis Incognita which basically meant they