Montevideo, Uruguay
We left Florianopolis for a long bus trip to Montevideo the capital of Uruguay. We had to change at Porto Alegre. The bus journeys are not as bad as they sound. The first part was in daylight through some lovely countryside. The bus is comfortable and we had good seats with no one in front of us.
We arrived at Porto Alegre bus station at 6pm and had a 4 hour wait but a beer and some food and the time was soon gone. We climbed aboard the new bus at 10pm. We...