Ruth & I

Fees, weird shoes and the dead

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January 17th 2013
When I landed in Buenos Aires I once again got punished for being Australian and copped a $100US reciprocity fee for flying into the country. The annoying thing about this one though was that unlike with Chile where you could pay it on arrival it had to be prepaid and the receipt needed to be printed and presented to customs on arrival. While I had tried to pay it a couple of days before I left, t ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more