Drip... Drip...

Over the past few days, we explored Montevideo. This was not much of an effort,  since the old city centre is cute, but very tiny. The rest of the city has a nice, relaxed vibe, but cannot be considered very pretty. Despite - or actually because of - the lovely weather, we were regularly dripped on, not by rain but by the ubiquitous airconditioning units suspended from every building.... yuck! Saturday was so hot that we decided to go to the city beaches, which are interspersed with green, palm tree-dotted parks. The seaside rambla is probably the biggest selling point of montevideo, with a beautiful sunset to finish it off. 

Despite our best efforts to blend in, we did notice people staring at us a lot. We began to think that we had "tourists" written in neon letters above our heads, but then yours truly realised that her skin emitted enough light for that already....  we will work on that some more.

Yesterday we took a bus and then a boat to cross the rio de la plata to Buenos Aires. We bought "two bottles whiskey for the way" (Kendrick et al., 2012)  on the boat, duty free of course ;). What a difference!  This city is definitely prettier, but also much more hectic, and the hostel is buzzing with crazy stories. A thunderstorm just ended a rather overcast day, but tomorrow will probably require SPF 50 again...