Che Chicos! Lessons Learned on the Road Volume Cuatro
1. Unpacking your bags once and settling down for a month: brilliant.
2. Don’t mess with the farmers. See previous blogs on beef strike and field burning.
3. You can never buy too many leather coats, boats or handbags. At 1/3 the price and at higher quality and design than back home, it’s really just a matter of how much you can sneak past the Customs people when shipping them home.
4. Alfajores are an acquired taste. These chocolate-covered sandwich treats (think really dry Joe Louis) are a national obsession, yet despite repeated attempts, we haven’t quite developed a taste for them.
5. Overnight, long-distance buses in Argentina rock – imagine fully reclining seat-beds, hot meals and wine service. Local buses – still suck.
6. It is possible to drown in wine. With so many fabulous bottles of vino (Malbec is the speciality), at ridiculously affordable prices, wine with every meal is standard. At least in the Brel world. Oh, and the $1 bottle of wine – not really worth it. The $3 bottle of wine – superb!
7. Blogging about joining a gym and then never actually going – not such a great idea.
8. There’s nothing wrong with a little dulce de leche at every meal. Argentinians put this version of caramel on everything – and so does Mel. It’s also good straight from the jar.
9. Champagne isn’t just for celebrations anymore. Think breakfast – and not just as part of a wimpy mimosa.
10. Mel wants to move to Buenos Aires. Desperately.
Tags: Argentina, Lessons Learned, Travel
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