Buenos Aires - who is going?

[macaca]

The kelpers have the vote in the next few weeks, they will vote unanimously yes to be part of the united kingdom overseas territory.

FACT

I do not like some shit a guy was spouting on here, 1bangsomething, that the falklands are argentinian without a hint of valid argument.

Idiot.

I cannot wait for this and I will be there.

On the subject of security for you guys that will travel, (myself included) I will be 100% honest, treat this like a football stadium massive potential problem derby game, be fully on your guard and like a previous poster said it is a more than a fantastic opportunity for the minority Argentinians to cause massive fornicating chaos, anti english bara bravas (firms) boca river racing etc, they will be there, the venue is velez sarsfield home stadium and it is not in a good place in Buenos Aires. Anything goes off we will not be asking the police for help, nor will Argentinians.

Pre fight, not a problem in the world, post fight ..... anything is possible win or lose .....

I live here in Buenos Aires and if anyone wants any hints and tips on anything from customs, police to food and beer, message me. I would love to meet up with you guys and see a monumental night of greatness, King Murray.

I believe that it will be the greatest away day Englands ever had since 1982.

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

Yes, Liniers is a bit rough to be honest, it made my stomping ground of Bodeo look
like Beverly Hills. Still - can't argue with most of the above regarding fight night.

[P4P#1]

Booked a hotel in Palermo today Just need me spend now, How much am i better taking for 3 days? About a grand i had in mind in english, You's reckon that will be enough for food beer, taxis and other activities?

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

Booked a hotel in Palermo today Just need me spend now, How much am i better taking for 3 days? About a grand i had in mind in english, You's reckon that will be enough for food beer, taxis and other activities?

Ooooh mate, you won't be spending anywhere near a grand. Take that if you are after buying some nice expensive presents. Depending what you are doing - even if you ate steak dinners three times a day, you would still have change out of 50 quid easily. Remember to keep some pesos on you for when you leave as you need to pay to get out of the country. I spent all my pesos the last time and my mate had to bail me out.

Take dollars and change what you need at the banks. Palermo Viejo/Hollywood is a very nice part of town but you are right across the city from the fight venue. It won't cost you too much to get a black and yellow cab to get to the fight. Book it from the hotel just to be sure.

[P4P#1]

Booked a hotel in Palermo today Just need me spend now, How much am i better taking for 3 days? About a grand i had in mind in english, You's reckon that will be enough for food beer, taxis and other activities?

Ooooh mate, you won't be spending anywhere near a grand. Take that if you are after buying some nice expensive presents. Depending what you are doing - even if you ate steak dinners three times a day, you would still have change out of 50 quid easily. Remember to keep some pesos on you for when you leave as you need to pay to get out of the country. I spent all my pesos the last time and my mate had to bail me out.

Take dollars and change what you need at the banks. Palermo Viejo/Hollywood is a very nice part of town but you are right across the city from the fight venue. It won't cost you too much to get a black and yellow cab to get to the fight. Book it from the hotel just to be sure.

Cheers for that, Its in the hollywood part of palermo, I checked the stadium and google maps says it will roughly take about 20-30 mins in taxi so thats not too bad.

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

Booked a hotel in Palermo today Just need me spend now, How much am i better taking for 3 days? About a grand i had in mind in english, You's reckon that will be enough for food beer, taxis and other activities?

Ooooh mate, you won't be spending anywhere near a grand. Take that if you are after buying some nice expensive presents. Depending what you are doing - even if you ate steak dinners three times a day, you would still have change out of 50 quid easily. Remember to keep some pesos on you for when you leave as you need to pay to get out of the country. I spent all my pesos the last time and my mate had to bail me out.

Take dollars and change what you need at the banks. Palermo Viejo/Hollywood is a very nice part of town but you are right across the city from the fight venue. It won't cost you too much to get a black and yellow cab to get to the fight. Book it from the hotel just to be sure.

Cheers for that, Its in the hollywood part of palermo, I checked the stadium and google maps says it will roughly take about 20-30 mins in taxi so thats not too bad.

You will be fine for taxis getting to and from the fight. Palermo Hollywood is a very nice part of town, you'll enjoy yourself there.

[macaca]

Curious why you had to pay to leave the country, did your 3 month tourist visa run out?
You might have a fornicate on exchanging your dollars. The banks will not change them as the US dollar here "doesn't exist"
Last week in London the peso was like 8 to the pound which is pretty much alright. I would change maybe 300 quid and bring the other 700. I would not bother changing pounds to dollars only to change them back again in pesos. The exchange places like pounds as much as the dollar so for me it is a no brainer. But having around 2,500 pesos in your back pocket the second you step off the plane to me makes sense
Even with hookers, coke, champagne and a limo thrown in, like the other guy said a grand for 3 days is quite a task to spunk. Obviously doable however!
Palermo is cool and safe and you won't get any shit there. It is fornicating expensive though. Last year a 3/4 litre of Quilmes cost me 39 pesos.

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

Curious why you had to pay to leave the country, did your 3 month tourist visa run out?
You might have a eff on exchanging your dollars. The banks will not change them as the US dollar here "doesn't exist"
Last week in London the peso was like 8 to the pound which is pretty much alright. I would change maybe 300 quid and bring the other 700. I would not bother changing pounds to dollars only to change them back again in pesos. The exchange places like pounds as much as the dollar so for me it is a no brainer. But having around 2,500 pesos in your back pocket the second you step off the plane to me makes sense
Even with hookers, coke, champagne and a limo thrown in, like the other guy said a grand for 3 days is quite a task to spunk. Obviously doable however!
Palermo is cool and safe and you won't get any shit there. It is effing expensive though. Last year a 3/4 litre of Quilmes cost me 39 pesos.

No, I had to pay some 'exit tax' and I didn't have any pesos, it would have helped if I knew about it beforehand because the first time I went in 2002, there was no such thing.

And the banks won't change US dollars? fornicate me, it has gone all arse above face since the last time I was there, again, in 2002, everywhere accepted US dollars as they were on parity with the peso and 4 years later I had absolutely no problem in getting them exchanged.

39 pesos for quilmes? Times must be good though you do pay for the 'ambiance' in the likes of Palermo and Puerto Madero than in other places. As long as you don't have the likes of Raul Castells coming in and nicking your dinner off your plate.

[macaca]

Curious why you had to pay to leave the country, did your 3 month tourist visa run out?
You might have a eff on exchanging your dollars. The banks will not change them as the US dollar here "doesn't exist"
Last week in London the peso was like 8 to the pound which is pretty much alright. I would change maybe 300 quid and bring the other 700. I would not bother changing pounds to dollars only to change them back again in pesos. The exchange places like pounds as much as the dollar so for me it is a no brainer. But having around 2,500 pesos in your back pocket the second you step off the plane to me makes sense
Even with hookers, coke, champagne and a limo thrown in, like the other guy said a grand for 3 days is quite a task to spunk. Obviously doable however!
Palermo is cool and safe and you won't get any shit there. It is effing expensive though. Last year a 3/4 litre of Quilmes cost me 39 pesos.

No, I had to pay some 'exit tax' and I didn't have any pesos, it would have helped if I knew about it beforehand because the first time I went in 2002, there was no such thing.

And the banks won't change US dollars? eff me, it has gone all arse above face since the last time I was there, again, in 2002, everywhere accepted US dollars as they were on parity with the peso and 4 years later I had absolutely no problem in getting them exchanged.

39 pesos for quilmes? Times must be good though you do pay for the 'ambiance' in the likes of Palermo and Puerto Madero than in other places. As long as you don't have the likes of Raul Castells coming in and nicking your dinner off your plate.

That exit tax is probably a come and go policy, at the moment it doesn't exist, maybe some arse trying to fleece you and stamp an official piece of paper is my bet. For sure you pay for the ambience! That is top peso for a beer and I guess if you compare it to other places that are known for their "ambience" it is ok, but it is expensive when you work on pesos. The dollar doesn't exist is the rule, of course it does, it ran, runs and will run the country till I am in a box. Officially it doesn't exist and we all should be happy with pesos lol. It makes sense but doesn't in so many areas .... basically an amazing country with amazing people badly managed for 200 years and now. The 1 dollar 1 peso thing makes you cry if you look into the history of it. 2000 was party time, especially for the people in the know that kept their dollars hidden. My family here were banging pots and begging for money to buy their school books in 2001.
A salad in Puerto Madero I saw the other week was 55 pesos, fies 69! But next door in a secret alley was a sandwich shop that did a pollo milanese completa, pop and fries for 13 pesos ..... you have to look around..... for you guys coming a milenasa completa is like a middlesboro parmo or a flat chicken kiev sarnie with tomato mayo and cheese ...yum

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

Curious why you had to pay to leave the country, did your 3 month tourist visa run out?
You might have a eff on exchanging your dollars. The banks will not change them as the US dollar here "doesn't exist"
Last week in London the peso was like 8 to the pound which is pretty much alright. I would change maybe 300 quid and bring the other 700. I would not bother changing pounds to dollars only to change them back again in pesos. The exchange places like pounds as much as the dollar so for me it is a no brainer. But having around 2,500 pesos in your back pocket the second you step off the plane to me makes sense
Even with hookers, coke, champagne and a limo thrown in, like the other guy said a grand for 3 days is quite a task to spunk. Obviously doable however!
Palermo is cool and safe and you won't get any shit there. It is effing expensive though. Last year a 3/4 litre of Quilmes cost me 39 pesos.

No, I had to pay some 'exit tax' and I didn't have any pesos, it would have helped if I knew about it beforehand because the first time I went in 2002, there was no such thing.

And the banks won't change US dollars? eff me, it has gone all arse above face since the last time I was there, again, in 2002, everywhere accepted US dollars as they were on parity with the peso and 4 years later I had absolutely no problem in getting them exchanged.

39 pesos for quilmes? Times must be good though you do pay for the 'ambiance' in the likes of Palermo and Puerto Madero than in other places. As long as you don't have the likes of Raul Castells coming in and nicking your dinner off your plate.

That exit tax is probably a come and go policy, at the moment it doesn't exist, maybe some arse trying to fleece you and stamp an official piece of paper is my bet. For sure you pay for the ambience! That is top peso for a beer and I guess if you compare it to other places that are known for their "ambience" it is ok, but it is expensive when you work on pesos. The dollar doesn't exist is the rule, of course it does, it ran, runs and will run the country till I am in a box. Officially it doesn't exist and we all should be happy with pesos lol. It makes sense but doesn't in so many areas .... basically an amazing country with amazing people badly managed for 200 years and now. The 1 dollar 1 peso thing makes you cry if you look into the history of it. 2000 was party time, especially for the people in the know that kept their dollars hidden. My family here were banging pots and begging for money to buy their school books in 2001.
A salad in Puerto Madero I saw the other week was 55 pesos, fies 69! But next door in a secret alley was a sandwich shop that did a pollo milanese completa, pop and fries for 13 pesos ..... you have to look around..... for you guys coming a milenasa completa is like a middlesboro parmo or a flat chicken kiev sarnie with tomato mayo and cheese ...yum

I have just googled it, there is a 'departure tax' of 30 dollars which foreigners pay. If you are Argentine you might not have to pay it. But by all accounts it should be part of the price of the flight nowadays.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g2 ... ntina.html

I was certainly caught on the hop with it back in the day. My favourite part of town was Castro Barros, where the FAB stadium is. Really nice little barrio that and I also liked Cabalitto but I lived near there anyway - well, nearer Bodeo really but still. Palermo is nice by anyones standards.

Milanesa completa - absolutely marvellous, lomitos, pizza y fania - what else... a good quality choripan at the fights or the football - the food is marvellous - the best thing about the place for me. A breakfast of media lunas y cafe con leche is a nice way to start the day.

[macaca]

That exit tax thing is bollocks! Maybe included in the airfare, has to be

You have made me hungry! Choripan = Sausage Sarnie, Empanadas = Pasties ............ you cannot beat a good choripan like, my local butchers makes chorizo with cheese, pepper, sage and onion inside ...... rrrrrrricisimo!!!!! The food is superb, one thing Argies do well is take the best world cuisine, tweak it, make it their own and give to all to enjoy (chinese and indians the exception for me).......... some of the pasta dishes are amazing also especially sorentinos ..... (massive yummie ravioli style pockets of round delishousness)

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

That exit tax thing is bollocks! Maybe included in the airfare, has to be

You have made me hungry! Choripan = Sausage Sarnie, Empanadas = Pasties ............ you cannot beat a good choripan like, my local butchers makes chorizo with cheese, pepper, sage and onion inside ...... rrrrrrricisimo!!!!! The food is superb, one thing Argies do well is take the best world cuisine, tweak it, make it their own and give to all to enjoy (chinese and indians the exception for me).......... some of the pasta dishes are amazing also especially sorentinos ..... (massive yummie ravioli style pockets of round delishousness)

Their Italian food is really good and the ice cream - dulce de leche is really on the ball. Lomito
sandwiches are fantastic as is the morcilla - which is black pudding. The empanadas are really
nice as are the 'facturas' that you can buy in the kilo but the pizza is really really good. Fuguzetta
is really Argentinian but really good and of course fania.

There is that Italian place in the Gallerias Pacifico where I would go at the end of the month
to eat noqui bolognaise - even though I always had money!

One thing though, no-one has ever eaten corned beef but after a lot of describing it - they said they knew it as 'pate'.

[macaca]

That exit tax thing is bollocks! Maybe included in the airfare, has to be

You have made me hungry! Choripan = Sausage Sarnie, Empanadas = Pasties ............ you cannot beat a good choripan like, my local butchers makes chorizo with cheese, pepper, sage and onion inside ...... rrrrrrricisimo!!!!! The food is superb, one thing Argies do well is take the best world cuisine, tweak it, make it their own and give to all to enjoy (chinese and indians the exception for me).......... some of the pasta dishes are amazing also especially sorentinos ..... (massive yummie ravioli style pockets of round delishousness)

Their Italian food is really good and the ice cream - dulce de leche is really on the ball. Lomito
sandwiches are fantastic as is the morcilla - which is black pudding. The empanadas are really
nice as are the 'facturas' that you can buy in the kilo but the pizza is really really good. Fuguzetta
is really Argentinian but really good and of course fania.

There is that Italian place in the Gallerias Pacifico where I would go at the end of the month
to eat noqui bolognaise - even though I always had money!

One thing though, no-one has ever eaten corned beef but after a lot of describing it - they said they knew it as 'pate'.

Corned beef they call carne de pan ..... really hard to find and expensive, I think they ship us all the shite meat for our corned beef. The Ice Cream here you are bang on is amazing, I was in Italy over this Christmas and people say that they have the best Ice Cream ........ I would say it is a close race. Not a big fan of dulce de leche but since it is in pretty much every pastry (factura) you have to get it in yer! Dulce de leche is pretty much sticky toffee flavoured so nowt to not like really! They do love noqui here though for some reason. The morcilla is nothing like in England though and cannot compare, my wife fell in love with our black pudding when in the UK. Morcilla (black pudding) not to be confused with morchilla (backpack) when at customs .... long story for another day! The cheese here is something special too

[Cholo_cws]

And have a try of fernet (with coca-cola.) Possibly my least favourite drink ever...or is it an acquired taste?

[macaca]

And have a try of fernet (with coca-cola.) Possibly my least favourite drink ever...or is it an acquired taste?

It is like licking a bunch of freshly polinated flowers and the locals with laugh if you use anything but the real deal full fat coke-cola ........ I think to disguise the fact it is like drinking perfume..... preferably in a 3 litre bottle of coke with the top cut crudely off, bucket bong like and a litre of fernet hoyed in.

Fernet lovers will tell you that it depends on the price you pay for your fernet as to the quality, 1882 over rated, vittori poison, branca the best and clasico, for me it is a lot like vodka, it is for getting smashed not apprechiated.

You have a point, it is probably one of my least favourite alcoholic drinks but when in Rome .....

[Cholo_cws]

And have a try of fernet (with coca-cola.) Possibly my least favourite drink ever...or is it an acquired taste?

It is like licking a bunch of freshly polinated flowers and the locals with laugh if you use anything but the real deal full fat coke-cola ........ I think to disguise the fact it is like drinking perfume..... preferably in a 3 litre bottle of coke with the top cut crudely off, bucket bong like and a litre of fernet hoyed in.

Fernet lovers will tell you that it depends on the price you pay for your fernet as to the quality, 1882 over rated, vittori poison, branca the best and clasico, for me it is a lot like vodka, it is for getting smashed not apprechiated.

You have a point, it is probably one of my least favourite alcoholic drinks but when in Rome .....

Nice description but I thought it had more in common with drinking Night Nurse (smelt similar too)...which might be a good thing for some on here. When in Rome indeed though.

[Wales]

That exit tax thing is bollocks! Maybe included in the airfare, has to be

I had to pay 50 dollars exit tax to get out of cuba. All tourists queue up and pay some guy $50 who is stood behind a counter. We were surely being fleeced there somehow.

[macaca]

That exit tax thing is bollocks! Maybe included in the airfare, has to be

I had to pay 50 dollars exit tax to get out of cuba. All tourists queue up and pay some guy $50 who is stood behind a counter. We were surely being fleeced there somehow.

Happens ....... had the same nonesense in Thailand ...... not had it leaving Argentina via Ezeize airport numerous times .... I would say fornicate off if you are tried to be charged .............. to be honest I wouldn-t be surprised if the flights full of English around April fight time have issues. For gods sake do not fly back via France to the UK from Argentina ....... 3 hours with the police slash customs dickheads, tests, chest xrays, urine tests, almost a cavity search last 2 times

[P4P#1]

That exit tax thing is bollocks! Maybe included in the airfare, has to be

I had to pay 50 dollars exit tax to get out of cuba. All tourists queue up and pay some guy $50 who is stood behind a counter. We were surely being fleeced there somehow.

Happens ....... had the same nonesense in Thailand ...... not had it leaving Argentina via Ezeize airport numerous times .... I would say eff off if you are tried to be charged .............. to be honest I wouldn-t be surprised if the flights full of English around April fight time have issues. For gods sake do not fly back via France to the UK from Argentina ....... 3 hours with the police slash customs dickheads, tests, chest xrays, urine tests, almost a cavity search last 2 times

U serious? Is this in France? I fly back via Paris lmao.

[macaca]

Totally serious, they are shit hot on incoming south american flights and pick out people at random and fully legally question you, force you to take tests, sign some papers, inspect all your gear, they were weighing out my sweets, breaking my chocolate bars, making a right mess and being complete cnuts to me god knows where in CDG inner sanctum after a fast bumpy blacked out van ride. This sounds like a lie but this is 100% fact. I would stay off the chemicals from now until then because the test they care about is for cocaine, the chick next to me after having said she doesn't touch drugs, after a posivie test said hmmm recreacionally in my mate (tea) she was handcuffed and I didn't see her again. By this time the dickheads had cooled off and my test was negative (relief) and they started chating and being lesser cnuts explaining that they have a quota of people to pick out, they can and will and do. They were really pissed off that I beat them 1-0 but said they can detain you in you test positive. If I was worried about the test I would get a lawyer and not sign fornicate all papers or agree to a test. Still not sure about how legal all of this was but I don't care now.

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

Totally serious, they are shit hot on incoming south american flights and pick out people at random and fully legally question you, force you to take tests, sign some papers, inspect all your gear, they were weighing out my sweets, breaking my chocolate bars, making a right mess and being complete cnuts to me god knows where in CDG inner sanctum after a fast bumpy blacked out van ride. This sounds like a lie but this is 100% fact. I would stay off the chemicals from now until then because the test they care about is for cocaine, the chick next to me after having said she doesn't touch drugs, after a posivie test said hmmm recreacionally in my mate (tea) she was handcuffed and I didn't see her again. By this time the dickheads had cooled off and my test was negative (relief) and they started chating and being lesser cnuts explaining that they have a quota of people to pick out, they can and will and do. They were really pissed off that I beat them 1-0 but said they can detain you in you test positive. If I was worried about the test I would get a lawyer and not sign eff all papers or agree to a test. Still not sure about how legal all of this was but I don't care now.

It is probably because you look a right dodgy pudendum. I have never had that but I was changed departure tax and Macaca wasn't so it is swings and roundabouts.

[NazNaci1]

Would love to go someday. Cheap, decent weather and stunning women, too (just for the wank bank, you understand). Winner, winner.

[Wales]

In cuba?

Wouldve got there and been told "heres a coconut, a blanket, jog on"