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Sounds delicious, thanks! My kind of people, lol. Long taxi ride from La Boca, but I'm definitely going to make the trip!

I thought I'd share a few photos of my recent trips to Colonia (hope that's allowed here). Been twice so far, once in late September and again about a week ago. Beautiful little town - expensive, but a nice and relaxing reprieve from the city life for a few days.

I've picked up a variety of sauces and salsas from Jumbo and whatnot - so far I have bottles of spicy ketchup, aji picante, habanero, jalapeno, salsa mexicano, sriracha, and spicy mango. They help to spice up the every day stuff, but would be nice to find a few restaurants that make foods where...

I could go for some Kung Pao or General Tso's right about now, lol. The thought has definitely crossed my mind.

Awesome, thanks for the lead! My apartment is in La Boca, but I go to Portal Palermo every couple of weeks for shopping and it looks like Cang Tin is just a few blocks away. Seems like they have excellent reviews - I'll check it out! Edit: just looked at Cang Tin's menu and looks like they have...

So, I'm a (very) spicy food aficionado. Jalapeno level of heat is ok, but I love anything habanero level of heat or hotter. Done and won several hottest wing "challenges" in the States. When I go to a Thai or Indian restaurant, I always ask for "native hot" (basically a level or two hotter than...

Didn't mean to beat a dead horse, sorry. I did search this thread for the word "Discover" before posting, and only found two short posts from February. Wasn't sure if something might have changed in the last 10 months. The reason I mentioned Diner's Club is because Discover cards are typically...

If I happen to stumble into a restaurant that takes Discover / Diner's Club sometime soon, I'll take Quilombo's advice and buy a cheap empanada and report back here with the exchange rate I received.

I'm 99.99% certain the answer to this is a big, fat, resounding, NO, but figured it doesn't hurt to ask....does anyone have experience using Discover here in BA, and also receiving the MEP rate? The reason I ask is that I have a Discover cash back card that gives me 5% cash back in a...

Or pay nothing for 260+ channels and watch your TV anywhere in the world. Here's my method: 1. Good VPN provider with streaming capability (I use Proton VPN, fast and has almost 1,000 U.S. servers) 2. Email alias service such as DuckDuckGo, which allows you to create free and unlimited private...

I just had a fairly pleasant experience with FedEx replacing a U.S. debit card that was gobbled up by an ATM in Colonia last Wednesday (Nov. 29th). It was my fault, started counting the money and forgot to retrieve my card before it was "collected" by the machine. I went to a teller and they...

I primarily use a couple of apps I've downloaded from the Play store, "Dólar Blue Hoy" and "Ambito Dólar". Both apps have excellent ratings. The apps show the current blue and MEP rates (among others), and have built in calculators to do conversions while shopping and whatnot. The only thing...

If you're here longer than 30 days, Claro should be a lot cheaper when you go to recharge. I'm using a tourist SIM as well, but I was able to register on the Mi Claro website to add packages and monitor my data usage. I recharged last week and got 15 GB for 30 days, unlimited WhatsApp and 1000...

FB groups is probably how I stumbled into them. I live and die by reviews and Google star ratings, a restaurant with a 4.0 intead of a 4.5 usually gives me pause. So the 4.6 star Airalo rating in the Play store with 1M+ downloads convinced me to try it out. But I agree wholeheartedly, definitely...

@FrankPintor just speaking for myself, but I'm certainly not pushing Airalo or anyone else. I used Airalo for my first trip to Colonia two months ago and it was actually the first time I've used an eSIM in my life. I had no idea what I was doing but I figured it out and it worked fine...

@mkub3905 - check out Airalo (travel eSIM provider) in the app store, it's very highly rated. I have a physical sim here in BA, but I've used Airalo for short trips to Uruguay with no problems. I had a friend visit BA from the U.S. a couple of weeks ago and I recommended Airalo, and he said it...

Sorry, I'm not following, what do you mean by "one day trip?" When I do a test booking to Colonia, there are two classes (tourist and business), two fare types (programada and flexible), and of course you can buy two directions (one-way or a round-trip). Which class/fare/direction isn't...

@kpatagonia - here's another URL related to the registration requirement mentioned by Ries. Once there, click on the "bank account" tab, and it provides a link to the registration form. https://www.westernunion.com/ar/en/receive-money.html Of course, if you've previously done this and are...

What does the error code say? Have you tried the app?

As of 10am this morning, Visa is at 948 and WU is at 909. Now that Visa has overtaken WU (and assuming it stays that way), I can't imagine a reason to use WU for anything other than maintaining a small supply of pocket cash. There were some dates in October where Visa was lagging behind by -100...