Apartments

It's very easy to get a temporary apartment in Buenos Aires, they all more or less cost the same aswell, but what you should do is a lot of research about them, because you can get a really cool one for the same price as a really, really bad one. About the areas, they are more or less the same to be honest. But for some reason most people usually prefer the more clean areas of:
Palermo or Barrio Norte, but they are to be honest quite boring and expensive.

San Telmo is ok, allot of Tango places and bars, which are extremely hard to go by here.
Just do a quick search for it in google and you'll find plenty.
Whats good with San Telmo is is also that it is close to La Bocca, de facto, its just a ten minute walk...or 30. Depending how fast you are.

If you are gonna stay here for a longer period of time on a tight budget, have a look at
easyroomates.com , there you can find rooms for a more humane budget. ( 250 - 500 ARS 'a month ) instead of the whooping 1100 - 1500 ARS for a temporary apartment.
You can forget to get a real place to live as a pale none-Argentinian, sure, give it a go, but you are doomed and will only face degradation and mockery.

Buenos Aires Tourist

0 Price Range
Argentina is cheap, so is Buenos Aires ( because it belongs to Argentina..) if you have £, $ or € that is.
The prices for a succesful weekend are about theese;

Beer in store - 2.4 ARS
Bottle of demestic Gin - 8 ARS
Domestic Whiskey - 9 ARS
Smokes - 3.40 ARS
Entrance to concert // club - 10 to 30 ARS
Night Burger - 4 ARS
Taxi Home - Rare it gets more than 15 ARS, no matter where you are.
Tourist Appartment - 350 - 600 US$
And for more examples, look further down.


0 Subway
First of all, the subway, its sucky and bad in every aspect, it's short, never goes where you wanna go, and it goes waaay to selldom. You will be cramed up against sweaty teenagers and chocolate selling bumms. But you WILL need to use it. Here is the Subte map, learn it by heart, mister!

http://mapas.metrovias.com.ar/subte/metronet/recorrido.asp

single fare - 75 centavos
Oddly enough, you can not buy a monthly card or such here, it's impossible. You can buy a "Subtecard", you just add money to it, but the price are the same.

0 Buses
Whilst on public trasportation, in more or less every kiosk you will be able to buy what the locals refer to the "bible", blancos had dubbed this book " Guia “T” ". It has every Busline in it, where they go, somewhat how they go, and maps how to show you were to go, where you wanna go, all by the power of public trasportation! But busses, you have to be Stone Cold Steve Austin to manage and tame them.
Busfare - 0.70 - 2.50 pesos.
0Traffic
Now we have touched the topic of automotive trasportation, lets analyze the pedestrian side of it. It´s like Russian roulette with bullets in every chamber, a fight you can not win. When you pass streets; look left -> Right -> left -> back -> front -> Right -> Dodge a Car -> Right -> Center, and bear in mind, this is the procedure ou do when you have the "green man" telling you it's safe to cross. Be careful, really, really careful when you are dealing with traffic. 9 de Julio is 27 lanes wide, and every lane is thirsty for virgin-blood.


0 Trains
Trains are really cheap and useful. Much more then the buses, cheaper and faster. The main stations are as follows:
- Constitucion. ( Subte C - Stop Constitucion )
- Retiro ( Subte C - Stop Retiro )
-And the others, look at the above maps sirs, they are in deed marked by X.
Trains 60 centavos to maybe 1.50 pesos.

0 Food.
Argentinian food is proper bad unless you like bad BBQ, red meat without spices, poorly fried steak ( offcourse without spices ), meat stews ( where salt acts as spice, flavour and that little extra ). But meat is never far away, look for the golden words that says "Parilla Libre", that means free BBQ, huge buffes and all the tasteless meat you can eat. No holds barred, everything goes in theese markets of animal indulgence.
If you find yourself walking the streets hungry and cant even find a greasy "Empanada" to suit you clinge for food with, you are probably out walking between the hours of 16:00 - 20:00, this is the Argentinian Ramadam, and eating is impossible between this hours. They call it "siesta".

A parilla libre goes down for 12 -25 pesos.
A hamburger will set you back Approx. 4 pesos
A Hotdog 2 pesos
A milanesa ( deep fried breaded meat, chicken or soya ) 3.5 - 7 pesos as a sandwich. 7 -15 with something else.

0 Beer
Quilmes is the local beverage of choice, I do not blame them. It's a pleasure to drink it and reminds of the "Drink-Beer-In-A-Park-during-Early-Summer-Brahma-Or-The-More-Expensive-Mexican-Beers" flavour. I would describe it as "youthfull", like the conasiur I am.

Beer in Shop - 2.40 pesos + Flask ( 1 l. )
Beer in shady urban neighbourhood - 6 pesos ( 1 l. )
Beer in trendy hippster place- 5 to 10 pesos ( 33 cl. )
Beer at rockbar 6-9 pesos ( 1 l. )
( I will soon recomend thee places o go. )

0 Tattoos // Piercings
There are Tattoo parlors in every street corner, I collect tattoos myself and can say that the hygenie in many of them are below all standards. Many of them DO NOT think about cross contamination between costumers, they do not disinfect properly, they let people out in the polluted streets with a fresh tattoo with out plaster it up, they tattoo customers in the middle of other people that comes in to the parlor and walk about around them. If you are planning on a getting a tattoo, and i think you are, because there are man good artists here, and it ridicilous cheap! Do your research, offcourse if you dont know what to look after, it's not easy to know whats ok, and whats not. Im gonna start another tattoo blogg soon and list some of the ones that seem to behave, but until then:
- Make sure everything is wrapped in plastic!, including the machine.
- Make sure he/she brakes open a new needle, not just some ragged ass crap from the street.
- If you cant smell the disinfectant, its not enough...

skate shops

Gear.
One more thing, if anyone is in need of any gear. In and outside the "Bond Street", located on Santa Fe 1670, there are plenty of skate stores, they have the usual stuff and really nothing spectacular though. Protective gear is hard to come by however, if you need it if your a pussy like myself. And the only place where I could find Knee-Pads was in BondStreet. Even if you dont need stuff to wear, go there becuase it a really sweet area!

MetroPark Indoor.

Metropark
This one is a bit tricky to find, but popular none the less. Havent really been there alot, since they utterly and completely lack of a miniramp, or ramp at all for that matter. Huge street surface though with plenty of macho and sweat going on. I dont really know the bus numbers in my head, but I will check it out and write it down with many more skatespots if this "blog" get any intrest. But untill then:

http://www.metroparkindoor.com/

Thats their site.

Backside Skatepark

BackSide
Backside rock in the sense that it has one huge ( according to me ) concrete pool, and one in minature, just some odd decimeters high. It fairly easy to get to aswell, which is sweet.
2 street surfaces which has the usual mix of stuffs that the "cool kids" skate at.

0 Take the "C" metro to "Independcia", from there, take the Subway "E"
Or take the "E" line straight from Bolivar or Belgrano, which both is very central.

0 Jump off at "Varela", its the second last stop.

0 When you get out of the subwaystation, you will be standing under a bridge and looking out at a parking lot. The skatepark is UNDER the bridge, just after the parking lot. so only a few hundred of meters away at Arrotea 923. ( Street name )

Link:
http://www.backsideskatepark.com.ar/

Eh? skatepark

Eh? skatepark.
This one is the only skatepark in the metropolitan area that has a miniramp, which fortunately is really sweet as well. Good size and not at all steep. But enough of that, go there and See for yourself, this "blog" is mainly for you who don't have any idea of how to go there, if you don't have a car that is. I was fucking lost the first time I was looking for these buggers. How to get there is as follows.

0 Take a Subte to "Constiucion", which is a Train station / Ghetto / Red Square of Pimps. 0 Buy a ticket o "Bernal", its the Sixth stop from the train station, and beware, it's very easy to miss, as for most of the station names have tiny handwritten signs hidden along the tracks. It's the station after "Don-Bosco" though, which has a rather big sign to it. You can take any train going to "La plata", they leave every twenty minutes or so, and its about a 20 minute train ride there and Costs 60 centavos. See, now you even can go to the "pago" line.

0 You get off the train. Walk over the opposite side of the street you arrive on, but start walking in the same direction the train are going towards ( the one you got off )

0 Walk some blocks and you will see a gas-station. That means you almost there, just keep straight ahead. 0 After a couple of more blocks you will come to a Veterinarian, turn left are you see the "Eh?" sign sirs!

Entrance is 5 pesos weekdays and 7 weekends. They have beer, hamburgers and the usual stuff.

Map: http://www.ehparksk8.com.ar/imagenes/qs/mapa-new-pop.jpg

Site // Pics http://www.ehparksk8.com.ar/