The first day was spent wandering around the old part of the city next to the downtown area where our hostel was placed. As in every other city most of the sights and historical monuments/buildings are found in the old part of town and Montevideo was no exception. Uruguay's oldest church lies in Colonia, but they had a pretty magnificent cathedral here as well, coupled with some nice small parks, plazas and sculptures. The highlight of the day however must've been our visit to "Mercado del Puerto" - a wrought-iron superstructure sheltering a gaggle of restaurants, all of whom are steakhouses and BBQ joints. Carnivore galore! :-D
Later in the afternoon we head out to an Irish pub that was recommended for Live music, and indeed there was a band playing. Or, "Dos Guitarres" (two guitars) was really what it was. Two guys playing guitar and singing. But they were good - and it was great. And! We met our first Norwegian on our trip here - Olav, hello!
Walking the city center and sights for 7 hours we felt well and done with this on day two so we looked up different "what to do when in Montevideo" lists and found that the number one recommendation everywhere was to go visit one or more of the wineyards surrounding the city in the more rural area. Placing a couple of phone calls put us on the direction of Bodega Bouza which turned out to be a very good recommendation!
What I liked especially well with this wineyard was that it also housed a museum of old cars and motorbikes as the owner's number one hobby was to buy old veichles and restore them to mint condition. Quite a few lookers in his worksohop! I liked this old truck as well - complete with vintage wine-barrels. :-)
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