New Year in Montevideo

Apart from the relative sanity of our new host and old friend Santiago, the next few days in Montevideo weren't much less crazy.

A huge cider fight again which this time included shaving foam and torn up paper calenders thrown onto the steaming, cider-coated crowd; an outdoor electronica rave at a surreal park; a car pulled out of a safari in the 1950s; and a billion fireworks ensured that 2009 came to a fittingly bizarre end and 2010 off to an interesting start...