Let's start off with the question of balance. This blog is supposed to be a scrapbook for us to remember the good times we had on our trip. But it's also important to chronicle the mistakes we made to improve your future trips and ours. Let me also say that Patrice did a great job planning this trip and most of our current circumstances could not be forseen.
OK. So yesterday I woke up with a bad sore throat. We got some help from our B&B host to reserve our seats on the 4:30p express bus to Montevideo. We were seated next to a fussy baby who really cried and fussed for the entire 2 hour trip.
When we got to Montevideo we caught a cab to Sarandi Guesthouse.
When we arrived at the address, we almost didn't get out of the cab.
Here's what we saw. The place and the neighborhood looked that bad. The lesson here is to look at Google's Street View of a place before booking. Here's what's mysterious about Sarandi "Guesthouse". It does not appear in Googles Streetview at all.
Our hostess Karen meets us at the front door and takes us up to the third floor in a 75 year old elevator. As we walk through the kitchen she explains that they don't serve breakfast anymore because "their guests don't have time for that and there are lots places to get breakfast in the street".
Now technically their name doesn't say B&B, but the whole setup is so B&B-like that it would be easy to assume breakfast was included.
Lastly as we lay down for a siesta (because many restaurants don't even OPEN until 8p) we hear the sound of a bus turning the corner right under our bedroom window and revving up its diesel to accelerate. Montevideo does not have a subway, only busses. And we hear this sound about 15 times an hour from 6a~11:59p.
My sore throat has not abated and I now have a bad cough. Planning to to go to the British Hospital for some targeted anti biotics first thing in the morning.
OK, that's enough negative stuff. We'll plan to return to fun times in the morning.
Ted
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