February 14, 2020

MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY

This Morning we docked on the pier in Montevideo. No tender or transfer busses required. The pier is pretty well right in the old City. For the afternoon we had booked a walking tour of the old City. This morning we ventured of on our own. Several streets are pedestrian streets and are traffic free, what is nice. The old colonial architecture is amazing in this City. We covered quite a large area this morning, also managed to do a visit to the carnival museum. Before heading back to the ship we had lunch in an ouside type of market what was full of barbeque type of restaurants. There must have been at least 20 + restaurants to choose from. A lotttt of Beef here. After lunch we met up with our tour group at the ship and boarded a bus to the main square downtown. from her we started our walk tour back to the ship. On our walk tour we visited a variety of buildings, like the opera house, cathedral, a couple of museum’s and several old buildings. we ended up back at the ship just before departure time. As it is Valentines day today we had reserved for a italian dinner in the specialty restaurant on the ship. By 10PM the crew on the ship came by all the venues with loads of different type of chocalate treats. (yummy). We had to say goodbuy tonight to several people, who are departing the ship tomorrow. We have to amid that today was one of our best stops on the trip. We are both very impressed by the 2 visits to this country. Very modern, friendly people and good food, wine and beer. Uruguay is only a country of a little over 3 mill. people. I am sure there are more cows then people living here. This country is definitely worth revisiting and spending a week or 2.

Happy Valentines Day “Carol”

Cheers