29/04/13 to 30/05/13 - We woke up early to catch the ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacremento in Uruguay. The crossing of the River Plate took just one hour and we checked into a hostel before exploring the old town. It was a nice place, with cobbled streets and a mixture of Portuguese and Spanish style colonial houses. The streets were dotted with old rusty classic cars, which we thought were just for decoration until we saw a few whizzing past.
The museum in Colonia is split across 7 or 8 old houses, which made it a nice little treasure hunt to seek out the various houses and meant there was no need for the council to build a bigger building to house the museum. Like most of the museums we had visited recently in Argentina, there were plenty of old uniforms, swords and pistols dating back to the invasion of the southern Europeans and the subsequent territorial battles that followed.
The next morning we took a pleasant stroll along the 5km beach to an abandoned colloseum/bullring which we had a quick look inside before catching a bus back to town. Our bus for Montevideo was leaving shortly, so we grabbed a few empanadas and dashed to the bus station.
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