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...