A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Mercedes, Uruguay by TravelPod blogger Mercurial titled "Colonia, Carmelo and Mercedes" Mercurial’s travel blog entry: "Colonia: sunny day (the bad weather was left behind in Montevideo), cute little colonial town with lots of couples holding hands an kissing, large families having lunch at restaurants, groups of women touring together and having a great time. I hate this place. No, I'm joking, of course I don't. Perhaps for the first time I felt a bit lonely and like I did not belong, but I knew this feeling would not last, I usually do something about it. Made a last minute request at CS and left my rucksack at a hostel just so I could walk around a bit before I had a reply from my possible host (Cesar). By the end of the afternoon I did not hear from him, so I checked in and had a shower. Classic, I got a reply from him soon after — we then agreed to meet for a drink. A few minutes before Cesar came to pick me up two young French lads came into my dorm room, they were my 'dorm mates' Stan and Sacha. I invited them to come along and they were all too happy to join us. I then thought I'd be polite and also invited the American woman that was travelling alone and the young Norwegian trio of girls who were having dinner just outside my room. Mikkal, the American came along and the others said they'd join us later. Cesar gave us a little tour of Colonia and then we went for a pizza and drinks. The norwegian trio joined <b>...</b>