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A friend and her boyfriend are coming for a visit and asked me about a good place to get a tattoo to commemorate their trip. I have no idea of a suggestion for her. Can anyone recommend a good place to get a tattoo? I searched the forum and there was only one other question about a tattoo...

Sorry, Columbia in South America.

A friend wants to send money to his new "in-law" family in Columbia, he lives both here in Argentina and has a place in Uruguay. Has anyone used xoom or paypal to send money to someone in Columbia? I don't even know if paypal or xoom is available there. He tried Western Union but the...

We always fly with American Airlines just to accumulate miles. We go to the regular AA.com website, find the flight we want and reserve the flight, then go to the local AA office and pay in cash. We have permanent residency and a DNI which is required to pay in cash (we've been told). The...

Thanks for the suggestions, appreciate it!

We’re considering doing a 14 day cruise from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso, Chile. We see that Celebrity Cruises, Royal Caribbean, Princess Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line and Holland America Line offer cruises. Has anyone done this and have a recommendation? We’ve had good experience with Royal...

"Libertad" on Libertad between Arenales and Juncal is cheap, also "Genesis" on M.T. Alvear at the corner of Riobamba. Both are air conditioned which is nice in summer.

It's not the answer to your question about a local Argentine PO Box, but we opened an account with USA Box http://www.usabox.com/ Basically it's a virtual box office that will accept all your mail and packages. They give you a Miami address, not a PO box number but a "real" address. This is...

It's usually a good idea to ask your neighbors or your doorman/portero for "Jewelry Store / Cambio Exchange Houses". We have two within a few blocks of our apartment. We call each to ask what their rate is for the day, and let them know we're calling the other place to ask what their rate is...

I'm not sure if my new Personal phone is locked. When you switched to Quam did you need to go to a place to unlock your phone? Or do you just put the the new SIM card in it.

Hello, Thanks for everyone's help with this, I thought it would be a simple answer if someone had the same setup as I did, it's always easy once you know the answer! Someone offered me their skype to talk online and help me figure this out, THANKS dude! Basically when I bought the phone, the...

Hello, I'm hoping someone with a "Personal" phone with no monthly plan can help me out. I've fought off getting a cellphone because, basically, I hate talking on the phone and I moved to Argentina to destress my life and not be staring at my palm all day long. However, the realities of not...

I want to thank everyone for the great suggestions on things to do while my friends from out of town were here, I got some great ideas. A few people recommended "Fuerza Bruta", but a few people also mentioned that you stand through the whole performance looking up, which would be murder for my...

Thanks for the ideas, I found two people to take them off my hands. The list went from 40 to 80 as we kept cleaning out closets and I didn't want to burden one person with taking it all. That's good to know about the Salvation Army because I also have a ton of old clothes I want to donate...

We have friends coming to stay with us so we’re cleaning up the office. I have 40 books in English that I would like to donate. Does anyone want the entire collection? As an incentive to any Harry Potter fans, we have all 7 books and 5, 6 and 7 are in hardcover, I guess we couldn’t wait for...

Hi Folks, I have two friends, a couple, we are coming to stay with us. I've lived here almost 14 years so I don't do any touristy stuff except when I have to entertain out of town guests. 1 - Suggestions on things to do? 2 - I looked at the Hop on/Hop off bus...

We just brought in an inversion table (this is something to stretch your back, where you strap your ankles in and it pivots you upside down), this was in a huge box the size of a bicycle. It cost $299 and we had the receipt for it just in case. It was in it's original box (FYI, someone told me...

We turned our cable TV service off several years ago when I discovered I could download all the shows I wanted to see, without commercials, and then watch them via a media player hooked up to our HDMI TV. Because of this we missed the game on Wednesday when the city went insane for 4 hours...

We ordered sushi from our favorite sushi delivery place last night and was hit with another price increase. I pulled out some old receipts and did a few calculations. This isn't meant to start a debate about the prices of a luxury item like sushi, I just thought it was interesting to look at...

After completing the paperwork for the new DNI card at Hipolito Yrigoyen 952 they told us it would be delivered to our home in 30 days, it is also printed on the receipt that if you don't receive it in 30 days in the mail to go to their office to pick it up. We waited 50 days and it still...