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I took the ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia and a bus from Colonia to Montevideo (Both provided by Buquebus). This taken longer than the direct ferry service to Montevideo, but was sufficiently cheaper. The journey was quite pleasant and I arrived at 'Tres Cruces' bus station late afternoon. <br />

Uruguay (Montevideo & Colonia)

George Csaszi
2006-02-27 19:06:23

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I took the ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia and a bus from Colonia to Montevideo (Both provided by Buquebus). This taken longer than the direct ferry service to Montevideo, but was sufficiently cheaper. The journey was quite pleasant and I arrived at 'Tres Cruces' bus station late afternoon.

Unfortunately the Lonely Planet guide does not show the station, so I had to ask for directions to the center of town. Mixing up 'left' and 'right' in Spanish made this very interesting and funny. Before making my way to the Red Hostel I visited one of the nearby ATMs to withdraw some Uruguayan pesos, and bought a ticket back to Colonia at the bus station.

Staff at the hostel were very friendly, and offered me a free beer for being the first Hungarian guest. The hostel itself was quite lively, even though there were only about fourteen people staying there. The only thing which I didn´t like about the place is that the showers and toilets were in one room. In my dorm there were two others, a girl from Slovenia called Marica and Alan, a guy from Croatia.
I first started talking to Marica. Like me, she was only in Uruguay
Market in Montevideo 2for a few days before returning to Buenos Aires, where she was planning to spend a few months with her Argentinian boyfriend (as well as learning Spanish). I got to know Alan through her, who was at the time very busy organising his programme for the night. Apparently the previous night he went out with his girlfriend (a local from Montevideo) and one of her female friends. He did not seem particularly keen on the other woman, finding her behaviour 'too crazy', but his girlfriend insisted on her joining them which evidently left Alan with mixed feelings.

My arrival and friendliness gave him a brilliant idea, maybe if I went with him I could divert the friend´s attention, and therefore she would cause him less annoyance. The small detail ...

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