After almost three months gallivanting around this glorious country and gawping at natural wonders like we have never seen before and might never see again, it is time for us to leave. Argentina has really, really grown on us and we are sad - genuinely sad - to be going. This is tempered, of course, by the fact that Chile, crazy, spindly Chile, awaits us on the other side of the mountains. In the spirit of my previous observations on, among others, Argentina's numismatic irritations, the following are a few further musings on those oddities which - combined with its soaring peaks, roaring waterfalls and creaking glaciers - make Argentina the utterly compelling place it is. La comida Food...eating is one of Argentina's great pleasures, and at the same time a source of head-banging frustration. Examples
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