Kathleen
Uruguay – Laguna Garzon
March 27, 2014
After a fairly uneventful 8+ hour flight, we arrived in Montevideo, Uruguay. Wow! That sounds very exotic, doesn’t it? It definately feels like another country, but kind of like South America light. The popluation is small but contains a very mixed bag of European transplants, so we feel pretty inconspicuous here. After arrival, we headed immediately to the beach. There is a famous town here called Ponte del Este where the rich and famous from South America have supposedly been coming for decades….we drove right through there to a little resort on a lagoon to the northeast. Our little room floated on the water with about nine other little floating rooms and we could walk across the street to the ocean where the beach went on and on forever and there were so few people, you felt like you had an entire coastline to yourselves. This was the relaxing start to our trip and we spent the first couple of days beaching and seeing the few local sights. In the evening, we could sit on our little deck and watch the jumping fish dine on littler fishes and the herons wade and dive for the fish of their choice. We too had some excellent local fish of an unknown variety for dinner and trip advisor led us to a local restaurant that would have been almost impossible to find otherwise. They had outdoor seating with a bonfire and we started to forget about the long, cold winter in Connecticut. After two full days, we headed for Colonia, an old Spaish/Portuguese port town high on the Uruguayen toursism list…
