Montevideo, Uruguay

We stopped at Orin de Cafe for breakfast this morning, more traditional cafe that serves simple breakfast. I manage to work out enough Spanish to order a apple pastry and coffee. I am sure it wasn’t the pick of the pastry list but it went down fine. Today is a bit windy and cloudy with the promise of rain later so we elected to cycle along the ‘Ramblas’. This is essentially a promenade along the seafront joining beaches for a 26km stretch. We hired bikes from the Orange bike rental company and set off towards Playa Ramirez, we were shouted down at one point by two Americans looking to find out where to rent bikes from. The coast is lovely and we enjoyed winding our way along the shore. At about 15km we elected to turn back, having passed four beaches and when we reached Player Marvin we stopped for lunch. Picked a spot on the beach and sat out enjoying a cheese salad. Once we had returned the bikes we had a quieter afternoon reading as the rain passed. The restaurant I found for dinner was closed, so we ate at Jacinto which was in a great high ceiling building. Lovely pasta and chilled white wine.