Travelling seems to be getting the better of us at the moment. There are times when you just do not feel like packing your bags yet again to move on and we had one of those moments leaving Piriapolis. It always makes a difference when you meet people whose company you enjoy and you would like to spend more time with. Off we went again....!
We were bound for Buenos Aires by ferry but bussed to Colonia del Sacramento for the afternoon, a town just across from Buenos Aires, separated by the big stretch of muddy brown water that is the Rio de la Plata.
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Colonia was founded in the 1680 by Portuguese settlers from Brazil and it is a really pretty place with uneven cobbled streets, old stone buildings and tree-lined streets.
We loved the painted tiles showing the street names
and the streets lines with plane trees.
Believe it or not there is an HSBC bank on this street, opposite the old car, the bright red and white sign looking very out of place on the outside of a beautiful building. Possibly the only HSBC in the world that has an interior courtyard garden?
This old car was a great feature and the photo shows how uneven the cobbles are. In some streets they were really large and chunky and at least one turned ankle was a given that afternoon.
For the die-hard dulce de leche fans – a small supermarket had an entire stand dedicated to the stuff (it’s not uncommon to have a pot of it at the breakfast table as a topping for toast).
We’d read mixed reports about Colonia and while it’s a pretty quiet place, we thought it was a nice town to chill out in for a few days if you’ve the time.
We were bound for Buenos Aires by ferry but bussed to Colonia del Sacramento for the afternoon, a town just across from Buenos Aires, separated by the big stretch of muddy brown water that is the Rio de la Plata.
View Larger Map
Colonia was founded in the 1680 by Portuguese settlers from Brazil and it is a really pretty place with uneven cobbled streets, old stone buildings and tree-lined streets.
We loved the painted tiles showing the street names
and the streets lines with plane trees.
Believe it or not there is an HSBC bank on this street, opposite the old car, the bright red and white sign looking very out of place on the outside of a beautiful building. Possibly the only HSBC in the world that has an interior courtyard garden?
This old car was a great feature and the photo shows how uneven the cobbles are. In some streets they were really large and chunky and at least one turned ankle was a given that afternoon.
For the die-hard dulce de leche fans – a small supermarket had an entire stand dedicated to the stuff (it’s not uncommon to have a pot of it at the breakfast table as a topping for toast).
We’d read mixed reports about Colonia and while it’s a pretty quiet place, we thought it was a nice town to chill out in for a few days if you’ve the time.
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