the Argentines eat we thought the dining hours would be similar in Uruguay and we weren’t wrong. We didn’t really know what we fancied to eat and weren’t sure what to expect as we hadn’t fancied anything on the menu at ‘The Manchester’ but thought we’d surely find something to tempt our palette. After much wandering and getting slightly disheartened by all of the meat orientated places we came across a lovely looking restaurant with a menu that offered veggie kebabs! Heaven! They weren’t your usual veggie kebabs either they were proper skewered vegetables cooked over an open flame - bliss! After all of the mediocre pizza and pasta we had eaten it came as more than a pleasant surprise to eat freshly cooked veggies! The main meal options were slightly limited due to them being mainly meat orientated so we ordered lots of little side dishes. We had a fabulous meal all washed down with a bottle of delicious red wine. It was the best meal we’d had in a long time and well worth the 8 pounds or

so! After this we headed back to our sparse quarters and before heading off to bed, sat and watched the comings and goings of the main plaza from our balcony.

Breakfast was included in the price and it really wasn’t worth getting up for. The coffee was horrid and the burnt cold toast with the dreaded Dulce Leche even worse. After this disappointing start to the day we decided that we would go to the main shopping mall and check out a new MP3 player for yours truly. We had checked out players in Buenos Aires but didn’t buy, mainly because the shop had sold out so we were hoping that prices would be cheaper or at least equivalent here.

We headed off to the bus stop and after about half an hour realised we were standing at the wrong stop - doh! The bus arrived after approximately 10