Lia’s part of the adventure is over. In this issue Irene meets up with new riding partner Carli and heads south for the end of the world.
In Brazil there had been countless hotels, hostels and B&Bs, but in Uruguay only the sparse cities offered a place to sleep, and it wasn’t hard to choose a route because there were very few roads. The asphalt was reasonable and there was hardly any traffic, but that changed when we entered Montevideo itself.
Almost half the 3.5 million population of Uruguay lives in the main city where, as at home in the Netherlands, laws and population are tolerant of cannabis use and homosexuals.