Posts by gringoguacamole

Re serafina

The boat ticket/some form of cheaper proof of "onward/return travel" would have been good to know in advance.

Actually, the guy at Avianca even suggested getting a bus ticket, but I was fucking panicking - my girlfriend freaked out as well. As a result, she bought the cheapest plane ticket she could find in an attempt to get me on the flight I had been rejected from. A $50 bus ticket would have been way nicer than the $500 plane ticket she bought, which didn't work anyway because the plane left before we could get everything squared away. D'oh.

Definitely bought some lessons already.

I am not in Mar del Plata but I spent there my last three Argentinian summers. There are some expats there, indeed, but I don't know personally any (I knew one, but he left).

I haven't heard much about United States dudes here. One bartender at Bruno told me that, after summer, they're all gone, and another at Alem said that the last time a United States guy had come in was when the sub crashed... the guy was there from the States for the S&R, apparently.

In Mar Del Plata there are many beer stores, but they are not cheap. Cheap beer is sold in supermarkets and it is really piss... where are you from? Almost anywhere in the western world there is a beer culture that here is just starting out.

However, if you go to a cerveceria early in the evening they usually have promo 2x1 on pints (such as between 7PM and 8PM). Take into account that here before 9PM nobody goes out for dinner, so it is really an after-work beer.

Oh, man, a litre of IPA for a little less than two bucks is super cheap compared to where I've been out in CO. I've been really pleased with most of the beer prices.

Three packs of marlboros for 200 pesos is also pretty good considering I've been paying a little under $7 USD per pack.

Hey, thanks for the replies - here in a little while, I'll go back and take time to digest them a bit more thoroughly.

I am just now getting settled in and finally have some time to take it easy and use a computer. Been a long week of storing my stuff, traveling, and acclimating a smidge to this city.

Had a problem coming into the country. Because my girlfriend and I weren't sure about when we were coming back, I only bought a 1-way ticket. As a result, Avianca totally barred me from getting on the plane. My girlfriend and I just didn't see that coming. Out of the 8 J1s I just spent 4-5 months living with in Vail, CO, two of them came here with 1-way tickets because they weren't sure where they were going next... so, yeah, definitely caught us off guard.

Howdy... I'm moving to Argentina on Friday.

Anyone here in Mar del Plata? I'll be there by myself for nearly three weeks before my girlfriend returns from Europe and know almost zero Spanish. Having some English speakers to help me out in the interim would be sorta cool. I need help figuring out the important things, like where to buy cheap beer and cigarettes.

Thanks in advance!!