on the road to melo

We hired a private coach between about 30 of us to get to the remote town of Melo in the north of Uruguay to see Alex and Veronica get married. Here are a few views from the road and of the town itself.




You can see here a classic South American advertising technique: old man on old motorbike with megaphones precariously hanging off front and back of aforementioned old motorbike, with helmet in standard position ie perched on top of head and rendered useless.

The elegant opera house in Melo is beautifully detailed but I can't help wondering if it ever actually gets used as the town is notoriously sleepy and all the locals I asked told me that hardly anyone comes to visit from "outside". Strange ...


*upate Friday 28th Nov - its actually a workers union building, I understood bad*


Obligitary team pose at the fountain in the square next to our hotels - there was nobody else in sight!