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The hours are Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 am - 8pm and generally closed for all feriados. Sometimes vendors run out, particularly of eggs. However, if you become friendly with someone, they may reserve stuff for you. This place has fair prices and buena onda.

There's a great little mercado where farmers and purveyors come on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays to sell their produce. All the produce is direct from the farm and they also sell milk, eggs and chicken.

I am a new English teacher (did the Celta here in BA and highly recommend it!) and am wondering if the seasoned teachers can comment a little bit on what to expect from 12/15 - 3/1. Is it really completely dead? Is there no work to be had?

Any tips on how to make the yogurt really tangy? I much prefer that to thick creamy yogurt.

Thanks Ries. It sounds like you are at least handy enough to install a shower filter sin problema!! Please pm me if you might be interested in giving me a hand in December. I am a good cook. And, for those of you who are wondering about what a shower filter is (there is this thing called The...

Has anyone installed a shower filter purchased from the US? Just wondering how easy, difficult or even possible it would be... Thanks, cjb

I highly recommend my Spanish teacher, Gabriela Ferrante whom I have been studying with for almost 1 year, http://gabrielaferrante.tripod.com/index.html. I actually first found out about her on this site (along with other people), met with her in person and have been so happy with the results...

My loss is your gain! Leaving for Canada at the end of the month and have decided to sell a whole bunch of booty. Below is a partial list of items with prices. You can contact me below for pictures, questions and inquiries. Email: [email protected] or Cell: 15...

I am not Argentine and I prefer working with a female trainer.

I can highly recommend Ida Razick. You can check out her site at www.fuelba.blogspot.com where I wrote a testimonial and read what others have to say about here. Ida really listens to you and understands about maximizing time and effort. She also provides you with personalized written...

Yes, I am interested to know what type of cooking classes people are seeking. I am from the San Francisco Bay Area and I will be offering cooking classes for people who are looking to eat healthy.

I have been volunteering at Hospital de Clinicas. It's rather informal and casual, but you do get to practice Castellano. If you or anyone else is interested, pm me.

Yes, I've been to this site. The information is rather sketchy. so I was hoping to hear from others who have traveled to Uruguay this way.

Tim, sounds like you'll be able to aprovechar between gorgeous coastal Uruguay and the energy of Buenos Aires. Just out of curiosity, being that you travel back and forth 2 times/month. How do you make this trip???? I imagine that Buquebus would be too expensive (and boring).

Has anyone done this? I see there's a company called Delta, but the information looks old. Any info about anyone's knowledge and/or experience doing this is appreciated. I am wondering why we only seem to hear about buquebus.. Gracias, Carly