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It is possible that the specific machine has a card skimmer attached. It might be worthwhile for anybody who has used that machine to check their account for unauthorised transactions. On the other hand, that thread might just have been set up to cause chaos and confusion over here by getting...

May I just check this with you, @nikad ? I've always bought and used grasa vacuna as just ordinary rendered beef fat which some of us call dripping. Suet is the white, almost tasteless fat found only around the kidneys of cattle and when I've bought it before I've always distinguished it from...

Yes, but whose puppet? I don't think you have to look very much further than Eduardo Eurnekian

Good to know there are others who make their own mince pies, Christmas puddings and cakes, @joftoronto ! Unfortunately, because I regularly shuttle between here and the UK (and also BC once in a while) I only make these things in my kitchen in England and bring them over. For real suet in...

Any thoughts about this year's rates?

I think I know which direction that's going... I have a friend in hospital (not Italian) with broken bones after a fall and needing a hip replacement. The supplier wanted the surgeon to delay the operation so they could sell the replacement hip next Monday. They wouldn't do that of course but...

"I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard. -- Philip Marlowe

As LP Hartley famously didn't say: Argentina is a foreign country, they do things differently there.

FWIW I have never gone "Oh dear, I don't have my passport: will this laminated copy do?" I simply pull it out of my wallet and present it with my payment. How would any ordinary shop worker not intimately familiar with the government issued identity documents of all 195 countries know this was...

I absolutely believe that some folk are challenged for a real passport when paying in a grocery store and I have just been lucky to have my my laminated copy of mine accepted for years. I'm in CABA but way out at the edge where everybody is familiar with everybody else. Maybe that makes a...

Given all the stuff you've said, I find it kind of weird that you joined this forum the day after Milei's inauguration

@smily I think @TonyTigre is pointing out - quite rightly - that YOU are a complete newcomer to the group asking someone to get involved in financial transactions. You may be legit but it's how lots of scams start.

You might not have to wait too long: where France goes, can Argentina be far behind? (Bugger. Can't seem to cut'n'paste on this stupid device. Just Google Krispy Kreme Paris to see what I'm on about)

You say the building is not a condo: would it be useful to explain the legal basis of ownership that underlies the issues that you are going through? FWIW(1) I do wonder whether the advice you gave in what I think was your second-ever post to BAExpats in August 2006 when you said WTTEO it is...

If you have an account and it has lain dormant for quite a while, don't expect to be able to start using it instantaneously without the bank performing due diligence checks which may prove somewhat time consuming. DAMHIKT

It would indeed have been courteous to provide a free link but in the absence of the same, one way to read the NYT is just to turn off JavaScript in your browser. This works on some other news websites too. Pasting the URL into archive.today works too.

I agree with you, we watched it on TV Publica too. But it wasn't every minute, was it? When before have they ever had the ministers taking their oaths behind closed doors? And I can never remember a time before when the Presidential Gala at Teatro Colon has not been broadcast live to the nation...

I think that there is no substitute for doing your own research in your own locality. What @Lanick said is probably so but a person ought to see what actual rates they would get at their local exchange in Europe and see how that holds up against the actual exchange rate in Argentina. GBP are not...

The problem with being 95% accurate is not knowing where the 5% lies until after you have trusted it. I recently had a completely wasted day visiting another town because Google told me a shop and another business would be open. The shop was closed that day. The business had been demolished and...

Yes. Bear in mind this is about the amount of undeclared money crossing borders so you should also be mindful of the cash limits for the country of your departure and any countries you will transit through.