Bariloche to Expand Tourism Marketing in Brazil
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in business, travel | 2 Comments »Written by Jamie After the successful winter of tourism in Bariloche, including many visitors from Brazil, one of the tourism companies, Barlan Travel, has decided to step up marketing to the neighboring country. According to today's ANBariloche, efforts will be made to attract Brazilians ...
Visitors of the World
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in business, travel | 2 Comments »Written by Jamie I am happy to announce with our latest visitors last week, we have now had visitors from 10 countries stay at our guest house. We have had people from Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, India, Israel, New Zealand, the ...
Argentina Peso Conversion Update
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in business, lifestyle | 3 Comments »Written by Jamie As we have posted before, watching what's going on back in the States these days from a far has been intriguing to say the least. I suspect other people living outside their native country can relate. This latest financial ...
Cost of Living Update
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in business, day to day | 55 Comments »Written by Jamie We receive emails quite often from people interested in our lives in Argentina. One of the common questions that comes up is the cost of living. With the exception of sports equipment, electronics, vehicles and other things that are ...
Lakes Crossing Information
Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in business, travel | 29 Comments »Written by Jamie Great news: after several months grounded the world famous Lakes Crossing will begin service again starting September 22, 2008. It will operate as "Cruce Andino". The boat will leave daily from Puerto Pañuelo, in Llao Llao, around 8 am ...
Trans Andean Tunnel Proposed
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 Posted in business | 2 Comments »Written by Jamie As reported by CNN, both Argentina and Chile have agreed to construct a 14 mile train tunnel through the big Andes. The idea would be to connect Mendoza, Argentina and Los Andes, Chile by train. Nice to see the ...
New Website Launch
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in business, travel | 3 Comments »Written by Jamie I am very happy to announce our latest work, www.barilochevacationrental.com is now live for the world to see. With the incredible help and hard work of our web guru and designer, BVR.com is the latest piece of the puzzle. We ...
Cerro Catedral Breaks Record
Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in business, travel | 1 Comment »Written by Jamie As reported in today's Barilochense, the local ski resort broke their single day attendance record. Catedral reported there were 13,023 skiers that ascended the lifts. As best we can tell, tourism has continued to be booming in and around ...
Argentina Repurchases Aerolineas
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in business, travel | 14 Comments »Written by Jamie In a classic Argentine about-face, the state has decided to buy back Aerolineas/Austral Airlines. As reported in today's BreakingNews.ie, Argentina originally owned the airline but sold it to a Spanish company in 1991. After 17 years and 900 million ...
In a Twist of Fate
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in business, culture, politics | 5 Comments »Written by Jamie As we have posted from time to time, there has been a big, on-going soap opera unfolding in Argentina. For those of you just tuning in, here is what has happened in a nutshell. The government raised export taxes ...
