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Argentina

  1. April 27, 2009

    Documents in Argentina

    I have arrived in Buenos Aires to get my residency here. It would have been easier and more convenient to do this process in Puerto Madryn where I am now based, but the Immigration branch there could not do anything with my English…

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  2. April 26, 2009

    Tales of Travel in Argentina

    It was 3.50pm by the time I called the taxi agency again. Where was that taxi that they had promised me for 3.45? My bus was leaving at 4.07pm and with a 10 minute drive from here to the terminal, time was getting tight. It shouldn’t have…

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  3. March 28, 2009

    The Impossible Became Possible Today

    It had long been talked about. The possibility however, seemed far fetched at best and more probably impossible. Of course with enough money anything is possible, but we didn’t have that kind of money. Today everything changed.

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  4. March 18, 2009

    The Return – Argentina 2009

    Well, it is now several hours since I arrived in Argentina. All items that I packed are still with me, although there were a few (mis-) adventures along the way…

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  5. December 20, 2008

    Find a Wife by Sending Team

    Having created over half a dozen websites throughout the year, I have always tried to present them in a very formal and yet accessible way. Each site is carefully written, normally in Spanish first and then translated to English, and much…

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  6. December 6, 2008

    A Week in Buenos Aires

    Before leaving Argentina I headed to Buenos Aires for a week. There was still one YWAM base in Argentina that did not have a website yet. My goal was to give them one by the end of the week. It worked.

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  7. November 24, 2008

    Good Customer Service

    One of our door-locks was broken and it looked like we would need to replace it with another complete lock. But on a whim I pulled it out and raced down town to see if there was any chance of paying for a repair. In Argentina there are…

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  8. November 23, 2008

    The Difference that Goals Make

    Sunday was my first free day for the weekend, which normally occurs on Sunday and Monday. There was nothing planned and nothing really essential for the day. Somewhere in my head I had considered that it would be good to do a number of…

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  9. November 21, 2008

    When Stopping is Wiser than Going

    I crashed my bike today.

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  10. November 3, 2008

    Internet for a Coffee

    Where we live in the outskirts of town there is no internet available. A dial-up connection with a modem gives us some basic internet access but it is so slow and troublesome that we tend to only use it for emergency situations. Most times…

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