Argentime
Funny thing about Argentina, and Chile for that matter, is that these folks have some strange ideas about when to eat dinner. If you go to a restaurant at 7:30 you are going to be sorely disappointed; the door is likely to be locked. Go at 8:30 and you usually have the place to yourself. Apparently there is some confusion about when to eat and when to go to sleep. We met up with an Argentine friend in Tucuman and we went to dinner at 10:30. Yup, the place was packed. We didn´t leave until 12:30 and people were still coming in.
The way this works is that many towns have a serious lunch break from noon until about 4 pm. The supermarkets open back up around 5, or maybe 6 pm. I am not sure when people sleep.
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March 2nd, 2006 at 4:27 pm
When I was in Buenos Aires we didn’t go to dinner before 10:30PM. I kind of liked that.
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:09 pm
It sounds a little like some of those dinners we had in Paris, so long ago, eating at about 9 PM. Argentina sounds like a night owl’s dream. I know I wouldn’t mind a little siesta every afternoon, I bet teenagers love it. What time do they start work in the morning??
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:53 pm
if only we could get on that schedule here !!!!
March 4th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Shira, that´s the weird part. They seem to start work at 9am, but we don’t know how they wake up in time for that when dinner is over after midnight. People generally look tired. Maybe they don’t get enough sleep at night, and that’s why the siesta is necessary.
March 5th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Sis, It is hard to say what time people go to work. We haven´t been able to get on the road before 10 am.
March 6th, 2006 at 6:22 am
Get with the rest of the world you loco gringos. That’s the way a lot of the world lives. It parties!
Your party animal amigo — Christos
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