Thursday, October 27, 2016

Things I've noticed in Argentina


OCT 27th
  • No free refills at restaurants. All drinks come in bottles.
  • No stop signs or traffic lights in the cities.
  • Some things like cheese and wine can be really cheap in the groceries store. ($1.50 for cheese, $5-6 for wine.
  • Main meals are lunch ( around 2 pm) and dinner (around 10 pm) with breakfast (morning) and merienda (around 5 pm) being light and consisting of pastry or bread and coffee
  • Drinking mate is social tradition. Drank everyday and on long car rides.
  • Refer to most people  from the US as Yankees. Which is interesting because unless you are from NYC or northern state I would assume you don't consider yourself a Yankee.
  • Argentinean tend to not like Donald Trump
  • People drive on their motorcycles while they hold their helmet in their hands.
  • The homeless dogs are really sweet and well behaved.
  • Music in English is really common
  • People wear shirts with English words (I wonder if they know what it means)
  • Taxi rides are very cheap ($5 for I decent distance)
  • Asado is also social tradition and consists really good different cuts of meat
  • Its free to see a doctor 
  • At 2 pm to 5 or 6 pm business's close for siesta and then open again 6 pm to 10 pm
  • Gaucho shoes and garb is common and fashionable... our version of cowboy
  • The only people of color  here are seem to be actually from Africa and here to sell stuff on the street. 

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