Our New Apartment in Buenos Aires

We´ve finally moved into our new apartment in Buenos Aires. For anyone that wants to write us (or even better, visit), our address is 2225 Bonpland, Piso 2, B, Buenos Aires.

I´ve included some shots of our new place (not the best shots of the rooms since our place was a mess, after just one day, and I just threw the sheets on top of our two twin beds - yep, we are sleeping on two twins pushed together). We do have a SPARE room so please come and visit. We are here until the end of March.



Besides a day of headache and haggling for Wilson, moving-in was a breeze. Apparently in Argentina, you have to pay everything up front in cash before you move in. Unfortunately, we only gave ourselves a day and a half to look for an apartment. Given we had to pay everything in cash, our ATMs had a limit on the amount of money we were able to take out. If we were nationals, we can simply write a check but since we are not (no, we couldn´t pass as Argentinians), we had to pay everything in cash. Luckily, this agency gave us 48 hours to come up with everything after we moved in (the headaches of being a renter).

One other note - I went to the post office yesterday and can you believe they ran out of stamps... I was able to buy stamps today at a stationery store. The guy would only sell me the stamps if he put them on my postcards and mailed them out for me. He said it was a law for stores other than the post office to sell stamps specifically for use on letters (cards, etc.) so he could not sell them individually. Interesting little details of other countries.

And did I forget to mention, you guys should all come visit before we go back to reality! :)