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Thank you so much for your thorough reply, Lauren! So, Barrio Chino is the place to be. Oddly enough, I actually rather like tea bags, since it eliminates any OCD concerns about how much loose-leaf tea to put in the cup. Choice is a terrifying thing, as Sartre and Steve Jobs both acknowledged...

I'm sorry if this seems like an exotically particular or otherwise stupid question, but every place is different and has its cultural and supply chain proclivities: Does Buenos Aires have peppermint tea? Is it easy to find? Mint will do in a pinch, but I really mean peppermint specifically...

True. However, in practice, history suggests that when the ability of a government to borrow disappears, that just leaves printing--more, better, faster. Some would say that's even worse.

Hello, I would appreciate it if someone please confirm my understanding of internal Argentine dial plan rules: 1. Internal numbers are often represented with the leading trunk code (0), even though this is unnecessary for fixed-line calls originating from within local rate centres, e.g. (11)...

Yes, but relatively violent petty crime/theft, from what I can tell.

To be honest, I was a little surprised not to find Buenos Aires on this list, at least after reading this forum for more than a year. :-) http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-2012-10?op=1

In fact, given that you appear to be going through San Jose (ae-0.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.ne), it seems to me this is definitely Facebook itself screwing you up.

Are you sure this isn't just Facebook's geolocation-based CDN screwing you over, e.g. assuming that you're coming from the ASEAN region? Or, put another way, are you seeing this routing from sites other than Facebook? As with most top 10-size sites, Facebook has its own CDN and geoIP-based...

I keep my US insurance for some of the aforementioned reasons, as well as to maintain a history of continuous coverage. It's also a supplement when abroad; no, I don't really know what its terms are for international coverage, but it clearly has some, and who knows, perhaps one day it'll turn...

Raw bandwidth is not the only -- and perhaps not the most important -- consideration. Latency and packet loss, as they relate to the overall quality of the provider's routing core, upstream peering and oversubscription, is at least as important for a quality Internet experience. I'd pay a...

I would be curious for opinions on Comodoro Rivadavia as a side trip--I mean on its own terms, not as compared to something else, like Ushuaia. It looks rather interesting. However, I have discovered in my travels that what I deem, a priori, to be interesting, is often not, in fact...

Is it really necessary to call attention to this fact through the use of caps?

Are you unable to take advantage of the tethering capability built into the Android OS itself?

That sucks. If it's as good as it gets in Palermo, wonder what the rest of the city is like. When does "cut season" generally end?

Hello, In light of occasionally unreliable power and sometimes flaky fixed-line broadband in Buenos Aires, it would be nice to have a backup 3G/HSPA+ data connection of some description. My assumption is that I can get a prepaid SIM with a data+voice tariff of some kind, from...

"The game is simple: you select one of eight available products, such as bread or meat, and you enter the price that you usually pay for it. Immediately, the product falls into two shopping carts which, after a traveling along a route position themselves at a distance proportional to the...

Yeah, I fell victim to a variation of #3 here - http://wander-argent...pular-swindles/ - my first night in Buenos Aires. Only, I genuinely did not know I was going into a boliche. My friend and I were just wandering around random bars, most of which were not boliches. We had heard of...

I think I know what that one's about, but just in case I don't, might you indulge me with an explanation?

Given Chile's earthquake-prone character, as well as Argentina's relatively well-developed connectivity, macroscopically speaking (despite the manifold faults we're discussing), I find that rather surprising as well.

I understand, and I can live with that, as long as it somewhat adequately works most of the time. But yes, point taken. That is indeed a Golden Rule to live by. After all, I live in Armenia right now. Read up on its geopolitical and economic situation if you're bored. :-) I can't say for...