Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Argentine Price List in $USD

- Pack of Marlboro cigarettes = $1.15
- Draft beer in a decent place = $1.33
- 1 litre of the National beer - Quilmes = $1.00
- 21 laps of go karting = $12.00
- 3 hours of Tango lessons @ Ideál = $5.00
- 3 hours of Tango lessons @ Mi Club = $2.65
- Used Vespa scooter = $700.00
- Local bus ticket = $0.25
- Local train ticket = $0.25
- 1 hour of indoor paddle tennis during the day = $5.00
- 1 hour of indoor paddle tennis at night = $7.00
- 1 hour deluxe massage = $20
- 2 tickets to Teatro Colón = $20.00
- 1 night in a famous Tango hotel in San Telmo = $20.00
- 2 pictures with the Tango dancers in El Caminito, La Boca = $1.66
- 1 delicious empanada almost anywhere = $0.17
- 1 ticket to the travelling circus = $3.50
- 1 night on a ranch on the Esteros del Iberá - all inclusive = $50.00
- 13 hour deluxe bus ride - Super Cama Suite = $32.00
- 1 1/2 hour flight from San Juan to Buenos Aires = $103.00
- 30 minute phone call to anywhere in the US = $3.33
- 1 bedroom apartment in Palermo - a touristy/hip part of town - with a balcony view of the entire city = $290.00
- GREAT bottle of Mendoza wine = $5.00
- Taxi by the hour = $5.00
- Mototaxi from Paraguay to Argentina = $5.00
- Large boquet of Gerbera dasies = $2.50
- Trip to the emergency room = FREE
- Healthcare = FREE
- Presspass to the top fashion show in BA = FREE
- Watching all the cute girls on the streets and in the cafes = FREE
- Watching Danny Palmerlee aka Travel Burro step in dog shit = PRICELESS!

6 comments:

Travelburro said...

Yeah, that's pretty funny man. Dogshit, ha ha ha.

How much does "extra-carricular entertainment" at Club 69 cost??

;)

Unknown said...

uh... that gets expensive

subluna said...
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subluna said...

Errrrr, what goes into a deluxe massage? Just wondering...

blank said...

Careful tiger, Samantha's too classy to have a man who gets deluxe massages.

JM said...

what's with the lack of update bizzzzy?

now that you're back, you have to do the "de-brief" blog, yo.