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I should have finished reading the thread first: Spain? When did that happen? I've been away from BAExpats too long. Bon voyage seems a bit belated! LOL. What part of Spain? We will be in Madrid & BCN in April. FJ, Where are the Modigilianis?

I'm hungry! :D Has anyone been to Kansas? I'm guessing you can't book and have to wait in line is that right? What about the others? Can you reserve? I haven't had Thanksgiving dinner in about 10 years. If I can reserve, this might be the year! :D

Ok. Now I have a question. Do you really have to have a certificate for every painting even if they are just stuff you did? I have some painting I did and I wouldn't exactly call them art. Please don't tell me I will need a certificate to get them out. *I'm in now way comparing myself with the...

Thanks for the article. Interesting read. Last weekend I saw the movie Un Cuento Chino. Of course it have nothing to do with the topic, but it was a nice movie & Darin is awesome. I <3 him. :)

No one said it was "magic" or they didn't work hard. What I heard is that there is a push from the Chinese gov't to help set up companies around the world, more like a chamber of commerce of some kind than a fairy godmother. ;) It would be interesting if there were something like that. And I...

I've also heard that it is an agreement with the Chinese gov't and the local gov't. Actually I didn't hear this here, but in Portugal. They make the same sort of deals. I wondered this because there are Chinese stores popping up in the most unlikely places, tiny "middle of no where" sort of...

Well, you all freaked me out. I just went to the ATM on Santa Fe and you'll be happy to know you can get brand spanking new 100 peso notes. My guess the printing presses are in full steam?

Are you looking for a temp furnished flat or unfurnished regular 2 year lease?

You don't even have to go to Western Union to send me money. You can send online through PayPal. :D :D (just joking!) Glad you sorted out the gift. I'm sure she'll be happy to spend thinking how sweet you are while she shops. :)

I've had 4 or 5 packages sent to me here in the last 3 years. All arrived fine. If it's over 600grams they will have to pick it up at the main post office in Retiro. Do not mark it as having a E100 value. Your friend will pay +/- E80 to get it out. Keep the value down. The only package that...

Although I agree with you that people are stretched and I'm noticing more people are paying in quotas at the supermarket, people also use credit & debit cards because of all the discounts and offers you get. They are not always advertised in the store as some of them are offered through the...

More books: Forget you had a daughter, Sandra Gregory, non fiction Beyond belief, Elaine Pagels, non fiction Winter prey, John Sandford, fiction The other boleyn girl, Phillipa Gregory, fiction Absolute friends, John le Carre, fiction The wedding, Nicholas Sparks, fiction The eyes of darkness...

I already know what you look like! :P

Totally worth it to come for 6 months and see how you like it. Read, read, read all you can about the realities of living here. Forewarned is forearmed (or something like that). :)

without seeing the blog post, I'm not sure what kind of treatment this person had. But we were talking about this today and there seem to be some sort of process that takes around 8hr and is going for US$800 and up. Don't ask me what that process might be. It wasn't very clear.

Well, if she's happy with it, then I'm happy for her. I just doesn't make sense to pay a premium here for something that is probably cheaper in her home country. We were just talking about this recently. I was told it cost 250-350GBP in London and another girl said it was about 300-400 Francs...

ALL GONE! Happy reading. Pass them on when you are done. ;) Sold: Born in Shame, Nora Roberts, fiction, paperback Middlesex, Jeffery Eugenies, fiction, paperback Winter prey, John Sandford, fiction The other boleyn girl, Phillipa Gregory, fiction Absolute friends, John le Carre, fiction The...

Currencies go away and are replaced by others. That's the way of the world. Look at Brazil, when their economy tanked they went through a very interesting phase of introducing a virtual currency to recover and then to then the Real. In the 20th century Germany had 8 different currencies. One...

Oh. The irony. :) But really most* of the people who pass through this site are going to leave eventually whether it's 1 month or 10 years. It's the nature of this kind of site. *yes, most, not all.

Honestly, I don't know very much about the whole currency thing. But isn't the fact that you can't trade your Argentine Peso anywhere outside the country a bit of a problem? I mean, if I took my AR$ outside of Argentina, Chile & Uruguay would I actually be able to sell them? Are there other...