Posted by JohnP
04/26/2008 at 14:20
- Car lanes are optional – especially for motorcycles which ignore every traffic guideline
- Weather stripping, double paned glass and sound deadening is wonderful
- Disco is a chain of grocery stores
- Eating a bunch of really good food doesn’t necessarily add any weight – I don’t know why.
- ‘’Portenos make fantastic pizza’’ – I don’t know how to say this any more clearly.
- Coffee con letche isn’t the same everywhere.
- Agua sin gas is normal bottled water; agua con gas is just nasty.
- Iguazu falls needs 3 days to do everything. 1.5 days if the weather is nice and you really move.
- Buenos Aires has many, many night clubs, bars and pubs. You can find whatever you are looking for and more.
- Coffee will never be the same after a visit to Buenos Aires. The city is littered with Cafes.
- If you aren’t into the night life, 3-4 days for Buenos Aires is all that you need.
- For other parts of Argentine culture, you need to leave BA.
- Taxi drivers pretend not to understand you even when they can. Call them on it if they appear to be traveling in the wrong direction.
- Get a city tour early in the trip to get the most out of it from a local that covers:
- Port
- Tango
- Barrios
- Overall Government
- Important Buildings (train & bus terminal, post office, the pink house, etc.)
- Don’t expect the same quality of fruit as you get in the USA. It got to the point where I couldn’t select any bananas since none were even close to normal USA quality.
- Gummy candy is lacking, at least I didn’t find any worth mentioning.
- I still don’t enjoy crescent or pastries.
- clothes dryers are good.
- Travel with friends that have similar interests in their travels. For example, if you like culture, travel with others that do as well. If you like dancing, travel with friends that like to dance too.
- Extra wrapping of your luggage is available at multiple places inside the departure terminal. Don’t wait in line. The price was the same at all of them. I didn’t use it and my bag wasn’t any worse off without it. Jim’s with the wrapper wasn’t too bad off either.
- Duty free stuff is probably more trouble than it is worth and not a good deal.
- Always check into a hotel with some bottled water when potable water is a question.
- Review public transportation on the web before heading to a new city.
