Last night we were going to have dinner at a place called Felix (if you know me, you know why that’s significant) but it was closed. Holy Week is not called Semana Santa in Uruguay as there is complete separation of church and state. It is, however, the last hurrah for tourist season in Punta, so it’s called Tourist Week! Some places have been closed, but reopen for Tourist Week, including Felix. So it was closed last night, but we hope to go there tonight.

In the meantime, last night we still had to eat. We decided to go back to a great parilla we found just after we arrived, called 481. It’s open year round, so obviously popular among locals as well as visitors. We had exactly the same meal as before — brochette of lomo, which is beef tenderloin, accompanied by a delicious capresse salad.

We were open to trying the Uruguayan wine called Tanat, but after we tasted it we switched back to Malbec!