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One thing I recommend to everyone I know coming here is to go to Tigre (the train takes 50 minutes and costs 50 cents) and take a tour of the Parana River Delta. It is beautiful and exotic and the old summer houses are facinating. A nice tour will stop at a restaurant along the way and you can...

Not to dispute the other advice offered here, but I am not sure where the idea that people in business here mostly speak English. It is simply not true. Four years working as a journalist (interacting with 200+ different organizations in that time) has taught me that levels of English in this...

But Palmero is apparently filled with gangs of expat Swedes terrorizing foreigners... But add me to your list. If it is feasible, I wouldn´t mind mind a wee list before hand about what kind of people might be attending, what sort of business activity. Me: ex-Navy, then journalist, but...

There is also a clinic on Antartida, across from the big police building there. That's where I got mine last year and it took just a few minutes. RR

I know a good guy, but he is based in Olivos, he drives a remise. I will ask him tonight what he charges. RR

Here are a few suggestions: By BADesign there is a big patio with about 10 different restaurants that tend to be quite good. I have eaten at 3-4 of them. There is also a great patio for all of them with a niceish view. If the weather holds, that could be a plus. Also, if you are into pizza...

Check out The Economist´s ´Big Mac Index´ which ranks the cost of a big mac in each country after making several adjustments to get a fairish exchange rate. Argentina had the eighth most expensive Big Mac in the world. And it´s still crap...

Thanks, eclair, you are right. Cancel all my previous statements regarding portions of cattle. RR

I am virtually certain they are the thymus gland, which makes them sweetbreads in English. RR

Not sure about Glass places, but if you follow Juan B Justo west from Santa Fe, you will find a large area that is filled with auto type shops. RR

You have been seeing Nelore cattle, a breed common in the north and Brazil. The more usual Crillo cattle breeds tend not to look skinny even when they are. RR

I´ve been to Colonia several times, usually dragging friends over on the way to Montevideo. I don´t ever recall seeing an electronics store. I´m sure they exist, but there can´t be many. It is a small town. Montevideo seems a much better bet and I agree with the previous poster that Chile has...

What kind of experience-references do you have? To be perfectly honest, I wouldn´t get on a boat with a skipper who let someone he-she didn´t know crew. There are too many yahoos who believe those lessons they took in boy scouts are sufficient to sail in the ocean. I´ve been a sailor of various...

They have not been free for months. RR

Argie RE agents make used-car salemen look like an archangel

Locals here, especially upon hearing that I am an ex-Royal Navy officer, always pester me with questions about the ownership of the islands. This has become very annoying. I have found that telling them that I believe that Zheng He, a famous and remarkable Chinese admiral, found them in the 15th...

Since I arrived here 4.5 years ago, many, many people, usually Argentines, warn me about: being ashortchanged, counterfeit money, theiving taxi drivers. As a journalist I move around a lot during the day. In all that time I have exactly two taxi drivers try to rip me off. One gave me a...

As for Phili, I knmow the big grocery store (Carrefour I think) on Santa Fe at Peureydon has it usually. I have been buying there for a few years. For the best real bagels in town go around the corner to Jewish bakery called Kokush on Tucuman just by Peureydon. I don´t think CasanCrema is sour...

Let me know. I´m a journalist-author-whatever. Drinks sound like a good way to start. I´m a bit useless the few weeks, until cleanup after being robbed a few weeks back. But remain interested. Unsure about the roots bit. I thought was going to settle here a while back then broke up with my...

Is the $10,000 limit an Argentine limit? I know the US has such a limit - although all you have to do is declare it and you can bring it in/out. US Customs actually created an odorant that is now put on money nearly everywhere. It can be detected by money-sniffing dogs. (Wouldn't like one of...