Uruguay.... suite et fin!

Hola!! I'm back!!
I didn't write earlier because my access to the internet was very limited...
But now I'm in Buenos Aires, and I have internet in the youth hostel!!! Great!! :)

Well, voici le recit de mon sejour en Uruguay...
The first couple of days, I was with Mariana, in the "real" Uruguayan ambiance, with her family and friends, so it was the occasion for me to mingle with people, get back to my Spanish and spend some time with Mariana and her baby.
After that, the "Canadians" arrived, and we started the real tourist visit of Montevideo. Friday, we did the "ciudad vieja", the old town, very beautiful, with small streets, paved, nice view on the water. Also nice food!! Mmmmm, the meat in Uruguay is just delicious!!
Vendredi soir, on a assiste a un defile de carnaval, avec tambours et danseuses, c'etait vraiment tres chouette.

I dowloaded my pictures and I will try to put some on the blog... but again, my apologies if it doesn't work... not an expert yet! :)

Saturday, quiet day at the artisanal market and walk on the beach.
And Saturday night: FIESTA!!! The wedding party was really great, we had so much fun. A lot of food of course, with the traditional parilla, and a lot of dancing!! Ah, these latinos, they have the rythm in their blood!! :) En resume, very very nice ambiance!!

Dimanche: depart pour Punta del Este, station balneaire tres chico!! On avait loue une super maison, tres grande, 8 chambres (histoire que chacun ait vraiment son propore espace), une piscine, un coin parilla (BBQ) dans le salon. Bref, que demander de plus!

Les premiers jours a Punta, il ne faisait malheureusement pas tres beau. On pouvait quand meme aller a la plage, mais c'etait bof. Heureusement, le beau temps est vite revenu, et on a bien profite du soleil, des seances bronzette, et des bonnes baignades.

Mercredi, on est alle a Cabo Polonio, un petit village "completly out of time" a genre 2 heures a l'est de Punta. To get there, we had to take a jeep for like half an hour, to bring us all the way to the village, passing through sand dunes.
It was so funny, it's like if time had just stopped, the village is so quiet, people look so relaxed, like if they were stoned the hole day. The beach there was incredible, une immense etendue de sable sans fin.
Pour le retour, on s'etait dit qu'on allait parcourir le chemin de la jeep a pied... ouf, c'etait dur!! Sportive comme je suis, je n'ai bien sur pas tenu jusqu'au bout, j'ai "fait du jeep-stop" pour retourner a la voiture, j'etais morte!! Mais bon, j'ai quand meme tenu 1 bonne heure de marche dans le sable, sous de tres hautes temperatures! Alors pour un debut, je suis tres fiere! :)

Thursday, we went fishing! What a nice experience, I had never done that. Of course, it requires a lot of patience!! You're there waiting for the fish!! :)

I was really happy at first, as I caught one at the very begining of the trip.... but then, no more fish for me :(
Mais c'est pas grave, between all of us (et surtout Henri), we still caught enough fish for the diner! So at night, our chief Francois made us a great great parilla!! Delicious food and delicious moments!

Friday and Saturday, programme plus tranquille, playa, playa y playa!! Repos intensif, ca faisait du bien!

Et dimanche, donc hier, j'ai quitte Punta et mes amis :(

I went to Colonia del Sacramento, a little colonial city in the Ouest of Uruguay. So cute, beautiful little streets, wonderful sunset, and great food as usual! Vous allez finir par penser que je ne m'interesse qu'a la nourriture!! :)

And this morning... good-bye Uruguay, I took the ferry from Colonia, and after 1 hour, I arrived in Buenos Aires!! Et maintenant, me voila en Argentine pour le debut de la "vraie" aventure.

Bueno, je vais m'arreter la pour aujourd'hui, la suite dans quelques jours!!
Et bien sur, je vais essayer de mettre des photos histoire de partager avec vous mes jolis moments en Uruguay.
Besos