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Sleuth, it's far to your house, but if you decide to take the family for a vacation to Villa la Angostura I'll gladly rent you a house and make plättar. Interesting to hear about the silver dollar pancakes. The pancakes that I make aren't as thick as the American, more like the ones for...

I'm turning to the international community with a question. I make mini pancakes for my kids using a special frying pan so that I get six 10 cm diameter pancakes per go. My son asked if this was something specific to Sweden since his friends don't know about it. Is there anyone out there who...

We still don't exists in Villa even though the car drove past more than a year ago. It does take some time to process all that data.

Not strange at all. We are very aware that the volcano plume knows no borders. We get a bit racist here, cursing those damn impolite Chilean volcanos making a mess in our backyards. Our Argentina volcano, Lanin, haven't done anything like that. It's wonderful to wake up to the smell of sulphur...

I can confirm that there are ashes falling over the area. Just fine dust though. The municipality websit advices us not to panic... I will fill up the bathtub with water just in case.

I was going to paste a picture of my kids the last time we had a volcano explode around here. But I can't figure it out. That one was much closer though. Let's hope that the wind is towards the Pacific this time. Apparently people are stocking up on fuel and food. I did see the plume when I came...

I see people doing that all the time and it is NOT cool. I always washed my hands but lately I found that if I'm going to do the dishes or going out to do gardening I don't wash my hands. Sometimes I even leave the bathroom and then go back in again to cleanse myself. Disgusting things aside...

Sometimes I actually leave the bathroom without washing my hands.... ( hanging my head in shame)

The list have already become much larger than before. When my mother in law was born " Marisa" was a no go so her registered name is Maria Louisa. Our neighbour's daughter is named Kaysa, as the mother fell in love with the name Kajsa but it had to b spelt with a Y. I know from experience that...

If you buy a car in chile you have to go back there every three months not to get in trouble. Another option is to have a "friend" with residence or citizenship buy the car and give you the rights to drive it, both in Argentina and over the border. Not a very nice prospect for you or the friend...

Oh, I just assumed that it was a wooden stud wall you were exploring.

Try detector de vigas OR materiales I can't really help you since mine is Swedish and doesn't have a description in Spanish on it. Mercadolibre is usually useful in finding out what to look for, but in this case I only get cable finders. Except for the universal finder from bosh. It has a...

I would gladly lend you mine, but the round trip to pick it up and return it would be costly. If you can't find someone to lend one to you maybe there is a rent a tool. Here the chain is called "alquilo todo". And they do rent everything except nail guns. According to them no one uses that anyway.

I visited my home country Sweden three years ago and went shopping with my mother. She got a barcode scanner before walking in, propped up her cloth bags in the shopping cart and proceeded to scan all her stuff as she put it in her bag. When she was done she docked the scanner in a machine, put...

When talking to tourists I usually have to specify that I live here, permanently and with no intention to move out. But, I also qualify that I'm from Sweden. I hardly ever get anyone guessing where I'm from. Maybe I just never give them time to. A friend of mine's surname is Polish, but since...

When I lived in Accassusso, 5 years ago, it was so stressful to do the shopping with a small child and then balancing him and the food back home on my bicycle that I started to look for an option. I began ordering on line from LeShop and it worked like clockwork. Better then having them deliver...

SherbertDip, we all have a barking dog as a neighbour. Not enough people train their boys well.

Argentinians make contact on AirBnB but one way or another work outside of the system. AirBnB is a safe-ish contact system that doesn't work if you don't have a credit card outside of Argentina. I am still waiting on my first payout from AirBnB as a renter and I don't know how it will work. If...

As johnw100 already noted you pay a higher price to enter national parks if you are a foreigner. It doesn't matter where you are from, if you don't have an argentine DNI you pay differently (higher) for domestic flights with Aerolineas Argentinas and admittance to national parks.

When I moved out of Sweden I had a very steep learning curve in order not to get hit by cars on the street. To me a car with its lights off was standing still... It doesn't help that they drove on the other side of the road as well. I can understand how it can seem silly to be forced to have...