After walking around Buenos Aires for several days, the city reminds me of a blend between Paris, NYC and Chicago. There are many districts, and you can easily spent long days exploring each one. Being there for a week, I only had a chance to visit the following: Palermo This neighbourhood is subdivided into smaller cartiers: […]
Month / November 2015
What I packed
What does one bring when traveling for year? Leveraging my own travel experience, and after reading multiple travel blogs (especially those who visited Southeast Asia), I established the following guidelines: The less the better You can always buy or drop crap along the way Plan for a week’s worth of clothes, and wash Plan in pairs of two […]
Argentinian pesos
There are two currency conversations in Argentina; the official rate and the blue dollar rate. As of today, the official rate is 1 USD to just under 10 ARS, while the blue dollar rate is 1 USD to about 15 ARS. The reason for the double standard is foreign money is very difficult to obtain and inflation […]