Recent content by Richard Tihany

Please confirm that you are interested in gauchos. Your posting the possessive form "gaucho's" makes the literate reader wonder "A gaucho's WHAT?"

If you have a VoIP provider in the U.S. you must bring your VoIP converter with you to Argentina. I use Vonage and I know that they will not ship their converter outside the US. I live in Argentina and also in Finland and I have duplicate Vonage boxes so I can use it in both countries. (The...

My advice to anyone is to negotiate the best rental rate possible and make it abundantly clear that you want the rate in pesos. Not agreeing in advance is almost always a mistake. I could quote esoteric legal points such as the fact that under English and American law, courts are bound to...

I have tried a few Indian restaurants in B.A. but the only one I would call good is the Tandoor.They have a chef from Tamil Nadu and they will even serve a fairly hot dish if requested. The owners are from Bangalore and they are very responsive to customers' comments. Tandoor seems to have a...

I also have another brand new iPhone 4 16GB but it is locked to ATT. I am told that it can be "jailbreaked" easily by many cell dealers in Argentina but I would be willing to sell it as is--which could be a bargain for the right buyer, compared to the "open market" prices for iPhones in Argentina.

How do I pay the 10 pesos for the 24 hours of Movistar data? I already have a prepaid Movistar SIM card. Thanks

All of the cell carriers here offer prepaid sim cards here--and in one way they are actually better than having a "full account": I use Movistar for my unlocked iPhone 4, with a prepaid card. If I had signed up for a "full account" there is a minimum of twelve months service that I would have to...