Montevideo, Uruguay

Today we have to leave our spacious suite (still peeved that they charge for coffee in the room!). I waddle with my excess Punta gained weight down to breakfast where my performance is below a Curle average, fruit and pastries only today. We checkout and stroll to the bus station to catch the COT bus back to Montevideo. We get into Tres Crosses bus station before 2pm and after much confusion, mainly due to my dodgy Spanish accent, get a taxi to the Holiday Inn. Thinking about our return to Montevideo, we felt we had explored the city well enough and as a Sunday much of the attractions are closed for the day so we planned to lose the rest of the day in some fine wine tasting. The Montevideo Wine Experience is run by a really friendly guy, and we decided to sample 3 premium wines. Los cerros de San juan- Mill Los nadies – Equilibrio Gimenez Mendez- premium tannat They are all Tannat wines with the first two being blended. The pure Tannat is a bit full bodied for me, tastes more like a French red which isn’t my thing. The other two blended, one with Cabinet Sauvignon and the other with merlot were fabulous really enjoyed both but if pushed would pick a bottle of Equilibrio. We sashayed back through the city enjoying the quiet Sunday. Dinner was at El Fogon, where I chose pork….should have had the steak as it was fab.