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Day Trippin’ to Colonia, Uruguay (AKA “The Expat Shuffle”)

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Like many expats, we’re here on tourist visas which are only valid for 90 days. Now, there’s a few ways to extend that time:

Head to prorrogas de permanencia at the office of migraciones and pay for a 90 day extension. The cost is $100 pesos and you can only do this once per 90 day [...]

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Tags: Living · Planning

Remember to Change Your Clocks - Part II

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

They certainly do things their own way in Argentina. We just wrote about the upcoming time change. (Argentina began observing Daylight Savings Time last year for the first time since 2000 and did it on only 4 days notice.) And now the government, after just declaring the entire country would be on the same time [...]

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Tags: Living · News

Drinks in Buenos Aires - Tonight, 10/17

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

We have a group of 30+ people meeting up for drinks tonight. If you’re around, come out and join us. It’s a good chance to meet some new people and relax after a long week. (more on that later)  Here’s the details:
Friday, October 17 - 9:30pm - 12:30am
Godoy
Paraguay 4905
esq. Godoy Cruz
http://www.restaurantgodoy.com.ar/
Hope to see you there!

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Tags: Living

Remember to Change Your Clocks

October 13th, 2008 · 6 Comments

“Spring forward, fall back.” - Yep, it’s that time of the year again, and even though it’s October, it’s officially the start of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, so it’s time to move the clocks forward by one hour.  The time change happens this Sunday, October 19th, 2008 at midnight -the earliest it has ever occurred. This [...]

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Tags: Living · Tech

Argentina’s Travel Guide Web Site

October 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Argentina’s Travel Guide is a site that I’ve had in my Google Reader for awhile now, but in recent weeks the site has really picked up the pace with a slew of interesting new stories and events happening in Buenos Aires (and beyond).  Here’s a quick description from their site:
Argentina’s Travel Guide is an online guidebook [...]

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Tags: Living · Tech