Travel Week 15
Day 99:
| Ice cream | 110 |
| Cereal and Wine | 165 |
| Total: | 275 ARS (3.62 USD) (RMB 25.3) |
Unfortunately for me there is a gelato place basically at the entrance of my apartment building, so the temptation is difficult to pass by. Keeping in contact with my original Airbnb host, I swung by the apartment (still under repair work) to check it out as a possible transfer later on. It paled in comparison to my current residence.
Day 100:
| Cheese | 125 |
| Premade Salad | 100 |
| Rent (7 days) | 4500 |
| Beer and snacks | 505 |
| Total: | 5230 ARS (68.82 USD) (RMB 480.6) |
After a pretty busy week of socializing, once I settled into my Airbnb, I had a, let’s say, relaxing weekend of not talking to anyone. It didn’t help that the closest supermarket had potato chips and beer on sale.
Day 101:
| Ice Cream | 110 |
| Temple bar | 100 |
| Craft (bar) | 90 |
| Beer and snacks | 509 |
| Empanadas (5) | 225 |
| Total: | 1034 ARS (13.60 USD) (RMB 95) |
Feeling a bit too cooped up in my comfortable apartment and sudden lack of motivation to accomplish anything productive, I did manage to drag myself outside for a brief jog followed by two happy hour pints at different neighborhood bars before resorting to junk food and watching TV in the evening.
Day 102:
| Groceries | 299.5 |
| Veggies | 130 |
| Bar tip | 30 |
| HH Beers | 170 |
| Drinks | 900 |
| Total: | 1529.5 ARS (20.12 USD) (RMB 140.5) |
I made a simple, but meaty spaghetti sauce to finish off the half packages of pizza sauce and tomato puree that had been sitting in the fridge all week. in the late afternoon, I met up with a friend for a happy hour drink, which led to much more drinking, and me bailing to go home when everyone else was keen to party all night. Fernets are dangerous.
Day 103:
| Premade salad | 80 |
| Pastry | 55 |
| Total: | 135 ARS (1.78 USD) (RMB 12.4) |
Adulting is hard, but sometimes one just has to suck it up. I had been feeling concerned about my teeth and messaged one of my new friends who happens to be a dentist. She managed to squeeze me into her schedule at the orthodontist clinic where she worked and didn’t charge me the 900 pesos it would have cost for a cleaning and checkup. Dinner was more spaghetti.
Day 104:
| Vegetables | 50 |
| Eggs | 100 |
| Green onion and chilis | 25 |
| Red bell peppers | 60 |
| Ice cream | 110 |
| Total: | 345 ARS (4.54 USD) (RMB 31.7) |
So I was heading to a butcher shop to grab a steak to eat with the leftover salad for lunch and stumbled upon a weekly farmers market with a mind blowing array of vegetables. Normally, the greengrocers have a very limited selection of not so fresh fruits and vegetables. Suddenly inspired, I grabbed the ingredients to stir-fry up two Chinese dishes, which fed me the next three meals.
Day 105:
| Eye Exam | 800 |
| Contact lenses | 1000 |
| Cookies | 43 |
| Personal recharge | 110 |
| HH Beers | 260 |
| More beer at Mundo Lingo | 200 |
| Fernet Mint Juleps | 300 |
| Total: | 2713 ARS (35.70 USD) (RMB 249.3) |
With my contacts once again way past due to exchange, I went out to source new ones at a half dozen different optical shops several days ago, but ultimately decided that I should actually be a grownup and get a new prescription. With the new prescription in hand, I headed straight to the shop with the best deal and bought new contacts. I can’t believe how expensive (10%) the kiosks in Cordoba are to recharge one’s phone credit, but after trying several, it was still worth putting the extra money in because the phone company was offering me three days worth of free internet for making a timely topup.
Running Total: 2972.06 USD (RMB 20753)
Daily Average: 28.31 USD (RMB 197.6)