Discovering my surroundings.

So new years was so uneventful that I have no pictures to give you of that day. But thankfully I got to take a few as I roamed around Montpellier with my sister in law.

The town even under the rain is beautiful, the people are polite and the diversity of faces makes me happy. It was something I had missed in Argentina. It's full of little narrow streets with colourful shops on every corner, it's really the south of France I remembered as a child.

While walking around I found an adorable little vintage shop called Hippy Market, and I immediatly fell in love, they have all that I need to fill my closet with and even though it's not as cheap as it could be I can see some real good investement pieces in there! Thank god for Winter Sales!

PICNIC (aka brownie overdose)

Today my friends and I had a picnic to celebrate in some sort the end of the year and the beginning of summer. We had food and drinks but for the first time in a few weeks the temperatures decided to stop and the wind to blow. But oh well we still had fun, switching between Spanish, French sometimes German and even a few times Chinese!

Cool wind in my hair, warm smell of colitas rising up through the air.

Girl singing traditional Mexican songs.



Today was so hot it got to at least 28°c in just a few hours!




More pictures tomorrow I'm going to be it's midnight already and I am tired as hell!

Colonia

Saturday I went on a little one day trip to Colonia in Uruguay. It was a beautiful sunny, warm day. The town is quite small and you'll probably finish touring it in half a day, but since our boat left late we had to make the most of it.

The Buquebus going from Buenos Aires and to Colonia in 1 hour.
It's giant and quite full but comfy enough for the crossing.

Since it was quite early in the morning (around 9am) we found ourself
a café where we relaxed a bit for breakfast before walking around the town
for the rest of the day.





Coffee and Lemon Pie (not the best you can see from here the gelatine eww).





One of the many ports.





Colonia is very clean, and even with all the dogs walking around
it wasn't as dirty as in Buenos Aires.





The city is low and most of the buildings don't go
over 2 floors which gives it a warmer, village by the sea feeling,
reminding me of Italy or the south of France.





It's full of little cafés and restaurants, and though they are all cute and have a vintage feel to them, if you don't want to spend a fortune you should avoid them.



It also has lots of little shops, a craft's market with
local food products and hand made goods and other souvenirs.



We also went up an old light house which gave us a pretty good view of the bay
and the main streets (well at least the ones full of tourists). I recommend going to Colonia if you need to renew you visa more then Carmelo, at least there you won't get bored to hell even if you have a day to waste.