We ferried across the river to Uruguay for the second time over the weekend, this time also getting on a bus and going to Montevideo, the capital city.
We have a chiropractor friend there, so the highlight was seeing him and his wife and eating at an outstanding Peruvian restaurant. Aside from that, we walked around a lot, got me good and sunburned, and stewed about the really crappy exchange rate from pesos (Argentino) to pesos (Uruguayo).
Nothing was open! True to this-part-of-the-world form, the Montevideans ditched the city for the beach over the weekend, so all the shops and, by Sunday, half the restaurants were closed. We had a hard time finding an open place to exchange money (and accepted $80 worth of Uruguayan pesos in exchange for $120 worth of Argentine pesos. Grrrr).
But, as usual, it was nice to get out of this city for a couple of days. Our next Uruguayan stop will probably be further up the coast to the beach at Piriápolis, further yet to the resort town of Punta del Este, or even more far to some other beach towns.
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