Monday, October 13, 2008

Random Observations


OK, I am feeling under the weather today, so I am just going to start listing some random observations:
  • Sunblock is expensive here.
  • The couple in the jeans, hiking shoes, fanny packs and Columbia Sportswear jackets next to me on the subway were......French!
  • The subway appears to be free on holidays.
  • There are a lot of French tourists here. So far, I have observed tourists from Israel, Australia, Scandinavia, France, Germany, USA, Brazil and Japan.
  • Women here do not wearing skirts, but pants. Younger women seem to all be wearing jeans - skinny or fashion.
  • Older men and women dress very well here. Younger men and women in the smarter parts of town do too.
  • Just as the guidebooks say, men in BA are metrosexuals and pretty good looking.
  • Not a lot of fat folks here; no one obese, at the most chubby.
  • McDonalds seems to be quite popular here. I wonder if their beef is from Argentina.
  • Portenos, young (i.e. strollers) and old do stay up very late.
  • According to the BA Herald Tribume, Argentina will begin requiring tourist visas starting in January 2009. OK, that wasn't an observation, exactly.

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