Following a delightful buffet breakfast we zipped up our cases, checked out of the hotel and walked the 10 minutes up the road, Manuel Lobo, to the bus station to catch the coach which would take us to Montevideo. We had pre-booked our seats on the Turil coach using the Urubus website, the whole process worked like clockwork.
Once the coach had left the centre of Colonia, the scenery was very English with green rolling countryside and agricultural farm land. Excluding the 10 minutes leaving Colonia and the last 30 minutes driving in to Montevideo, the remainder of the journey was rural countryside.
Scheduled as being nearly three hours long, our journey was unexpectedly extended due to a major accident closing the main road in to Montevideo, but it gave us a glimpse into parts of the city you would not have otherwise seen.
Once we got dropped off at Terminal Tres Cruces, we grabbed an UBER and ten minutes later we met our host Jerónimo outside his hotel, Fauna. Following a friendly guided tour of the hotel and a chat, we dropped our cases in our room and went in search of dinner. Montevideo was quiet due to the start of Tourism Week, a national holiday that most people use to shut up shop and stay home. Restaurants and cafes close up and those that do open have reduced hours. Uruguay has no state religion and therefore does not celebrate the usual religious holidays of Easter and Christmas like other countries around the world.
Our evening walk took us through some of the city, along the ramblas, not all of it though, as it is over 13 miles long, to the Almazara Cafe, just across from the hotel were we enjoyed our dinner.
Later, we enjoyed a drink from the free drinks cabinet in the Fauna lounge area, trying the local whiskey and honey liqueur where we caught up with the photos we had taken during the day.
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