El Gran Finale- Estancia

As the Big Final, I had kept my voucher for the cowboy experience, to be cashed at the El Teruno Estancia, Colonia, Uruguay. We were a little apprehensive at first, so the experience would have to be quite special. El Torruno is excellent though, within seconds you felt transported to Our Little Farm: fireplace in your room, gauchos running around in funny trousers and hats, lots of horses, cows, donkeys, austriches, sheep, and the whole thing nicely grilled for dinner in the evening.

Nothing had prepared us for the ultimate Little Farm experience: we were invited to take a horse and carriage for a ride, ON OUR OWN. You can imagine the excitement and the panic, but thankfully, Stu has watched enough cowboy movies over the years to do a great job. When he got carried away singing cowboy songs and shouting 'EEEEhaaa!', the horse took off in a gallop and spun us around the farm...that hat has obviously had its effects over the months... We had a great time and forced ourselves to leave after three days. Stu was quite happy in some respect as my hands wouldn't smell of cow anymore as I had taken to miking the cows. A very, well natural, experience.