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Some of our friends have asked blog texts also in english, so here it is. I'll try to update this blog in english about once in a month.
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If you've ever wondered how much your ass can sweat you shoud try a four hour bus ride in Argentina, without aircondicioning, of course. We've been travelling now for a month and for some reason, when I look the time back I can remember most vividly how it felt to take a different kind or bus.
The first bumby city bus ride to downtown Buenos Aires from the airport. Wind drying the sweaty skin.
Bus to Sierra de la Ventana without aircondicioning. Luxury bus to Trelew: leather seats so wide that you could almoust fit two regular sized buttocks to one. Three course meal served on bus.
And all the hassle with coins in city busses. The whole Argentina doesn't seem to have coins. During first week in Buenos Aires we learned to hunt them, buyin something so small that they have to give you small change back, changing in banks (=stand in a line and then hear that they have only four pesos to change to you. If banks don't have coins, who has?) and during second week we learned how to lie. If somebody in a market asks, if you would coins, just lie and look like you'd be really sorry. Usually it helps and they give you coins, sighing deeply.
Why so eager to have them? You need coins always when you want to take a city bus. It's the only way to pay in a machine. They are actually planning to change the system and start using some sorth of magnetic cards. But it's going to happen only mañana. Now people in BA do anything to keep their coins.
Satu
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