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    Aurora australis visible in Ushuaia ?

    my gosh this web site, baexpats, is well connected. i'm still looking up northern, southern lights, aurora borealis etc and 30 minutes after i post here my posting on baexpats comes up on google search for aurora australis ! wow! we better watch what we say!
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    Aurora australis visible in Ushuaia ?

    i just found this youtube video of the aurora australis over antarctica quite something http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icugqEEOgkg according to wikipedia, some of the giant solar flares have produced auroras visible almost to the equators people in cuba have seen the northern lights people...
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    Aurora australis visible in Ushuaia ?

    anyone know more about the abililty to view the Aurora australis or southern lights in the sky from Ushuaia or other southern regions of Argentina? times of year (i presume sometime in winter) ? .......frequency?........common?........uncommon......? from other locations too? i've seen...
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    3 Travel Questions

    your right to overhead space has a size limit usually when you check in there is a little box that its supposed to fit in. of course lots of people seem to exceed that. but on the surface a guitar or guitar and case is a quite a bit longer than that box. its probably up to the...
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    3 Travel Questions

    i usually fly from nyc to ba on lan via either santiago or lima every dec about the 3 and the flights have been full. with the overhead bins packed. so am not sure where your guitar goes. i would make sure then that your only carry on was perhaps the guitar and some little bag you could...
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    Getting green plants/monsteras/bamboos

    here is a set of websites of plant suppliers i dont know if they have what you are looking for. nurseries in argentina are way behind those of many countries in quality and in variety of stock. faitful on puerrydon by cordoba is close to center of ba but like someone said prices outside...
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    Iguazu/ brazil visa issues

    a person can be very satisfied with seeing the falls from the argentine side too. especially if time is short seeing it in the morning, again in the late afternoon, its all good.
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    GTKFE: What brought you to Argentina?

    affordable living for those with dollar income ie its much cheaper than any other big city in the world to live in.
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    Tap Water

    i am in and out of argentina from the usa often and i have never had a problem in central ba using the tap water for anything. but cant speak for everyone
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    why we live in cities and put up with whatever

    great article that trys to explain why we put up with whatever to live in big cities http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/why-has-globalization-led-to-bigger-cities/
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    Tourist flight rates dropped!

    i just checked aero arg and just like lan, they have web pages for argentina and for usa etc. you can bring up the argentine aero arg webpage in spanish but it asks right away for your country of residence. and when you try to book ba to mendoza r/t in usa terms its about 275 and half that when...
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    Tourist flight rates dropped!

    THIS IS WHAT THE LAN WEBSITE SAYS WHEN I TRY TO BOOK AS A RESIDENT FOR LOWER FARES (I REALIZE THE POST WAS ABOUT AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS, however i dont fly on that airline because most days for short trips, since most times they were delayed five hours or so, became really short trips) lan...
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    Tourist flight rates dropped!

    thats interesting in that i had understood that it was an argentine law for the two price system at least that what was actually published in lan web sites so that means the law has changed?
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    average temperature charts for buenos aires

    please keep in mind these are averages. winter can drop colder 30 F and summer can be 104 F Records and Averages for Buenos Aires. View: English | Metric. Daily Records and Averages at weather.com . MonthAvg. HighAvg. LowAvg. Precip.January83.5° F68.5° F3.90 in.February81.3° F67.5° F4.20...
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    job in buenos aires

    im american, but i ve often gone to dinner "dutch". can i apply?
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    Winter Clothes for BA

    remember that some people are talking celsius and other like me fahrenheit degrees converter site http://www.metric-conversions.org/temperature/celsius-to-fahrenheit.htm 15 c sounds terribly cold but in fahrenheit its 59 degrees in looking around i found a strange fact. that at -40 the...
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    Winter Clothes for BA

    remember that leather jackets (custom made and fit over night) and cloths in general are good buys in argentina. dress is still casual. and think that maybe you might be heading to other parts of argentina. mountains, patagonia, bariloche, potential very cold. iguazu warm...
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    Books wanted..

    worth considering on a 2 to 2 basis, not a 3 to 2. after all, your books are second hand...........smile
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    giving back to argentina

    thanks now i can fill in my time with something perhaps useful instead of dancing the night away....................d
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    anyone have suggestions for a quick weekend get-away?

    the old city part of montevideo is possible in a long day trip via buquebus there are hostals and recently i stayed at the nh montevideo for 75 us$ a night and had really good rack of lamb at the hotel for 12 us$ its better as a two day or three day trip as its 3 hours one way. its also a...
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