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03-01-21 23:55 #9327
Posts: 707Test
Originally Posted by Showdown [View Original Post]
https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/world.php
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03-01-21 22:13 #9326
Posts: 3281Originally Posted by Showdown [View Original Post]
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03-01-21 20:54 #9325
Posts: 425Originally Posted by Routard [View Original Post]
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03-01-21 17:15 #9324
Posts: 28Are Santa Fe clubs open
Anyone know if the clubs in Santa Fe are open?
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03-01-21 15:59 #9323
Posts: 162Originally Posted by Talkyes [View Original Post]
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03-01-21 14:12 #9322
Posts: 1114Originally Posted by Showdown [View Original Post]
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02-28-21 19:42 #9321
Posts: 425Going batcrap crazy stuck in the USA
After my fantastic trip last year that I reported on I am desperate for another. I keep thinking of how much fun I had at La Mezzanine.
Does anyone know if La Mezzanine is open right now? Since I have been working from home I figured I would work from Colombia for a week. Get a hotel near La Mezzanine (are the other MP's open in that area?) and be able to go there often from a hotel that is close by and still get my work done.
Also I read today that Colombia is requiring day quarantine on arrival.
-Does this mean you have to stay in your room etc for days?
-Do I need a COVID test to enter with proof and a COVID test to re enter the USA with proof?
If Colombia is too tough to get into right now due to COVID any suggestions other than Brazil (too far) to go for a working vacation?
Showdown.
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02-28-21 17:42 #9320
Posts: 13Originally Posted by Turgid [View Original Post]
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02-28-21 17:04 #9319
Posts: 5688Originally Posted by Lefeu [View Original Post]
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02-28-21 16:58 #9318
Posts: 81What is SA?
Yeah I can't figure it out. I live by AAWP. (avoid abbreviations whenever possible).
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02-28-21 15:19 #9317
Posts: 13Originally Posted by Lefeu [View Original Post]
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02-28-21 15:04 #9316
Posts: 13Originally Posted by Nounce [View Original Post]
Sounds like a good bloke. I've probably read many of his posts, maybe benefited from some. I thank him for sharing. This notion I've pissed off a grown man debating price / collusion? I imagine the guy in question has thicker skin than to let anything I've said ruin his day to that extent. I can't see one thing I've said that isn't reasonable or wouldn't be shared by a good proportion of civilized society?
I commented on a post which essentially said (I paraphrase); it would be great if we could collude to fix pricing but there are too many men outside the monger club who wouldn't play ball, therefore it wouldn't work, sigh.
I just said even if you could get every man in the world to collude, governments should shut that down in a heartbeat because it's abhorrent. It's only purpose would be to keep people at the right level of poverty to suit your pocket. I'm not pro paying more, I'm anti large scale online collusion and such behavior. Sure, find out the market and be a bit frugal if you want.
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02-28-21 14:28 #9315
Posts: 13Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
I don't think I was around for those rates, roughly when was this? As I put in a previous post, I'm very jealous of the guys (like yourself) who lived some of those earlier experiences. That's the history I like to learn about, haha. The point you're making is, based on the historic exchange rate they are getting a much better deal now? In terms of what they can afford at a local level? I want to clarify that before I reply.
Great you can speak so many languages. I have a little Spanish but really need to knuckle down. I aspire to be multi lingual one day, maybe not quite to your level.
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02-27-21 21:49 #9314
Posts: 1137Same here
Originally Posted by Turgid [View Original Post]
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02-27-21 21:37 #9313
Posts: 3298Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
A funny thing about Brazil. I was really interested in getting an account there in 2004 because they were paying 20% interest on a damned checking account and the dollar IMO was overvalued. The bureaucracy in opening an account was unreal and I could not do it. Three years later, and I figured out how but it was too late. That is around when the Real had gone from 2.5 per dollar to the 1.6 rate you spoke of.
I kept track of how crazy the Real got by tracking my hotel room. I stayed at the Intercontinental Hotel in the Paulista financial area. I paid $125 in 2004 per night. Then the hotel went to $300 and even $400. It was more expensive than the same IC hotel in NYC. That was when I knew the bubble was going to hit. Hell, a decent house in Asuncion Paraguay were going for $250,000 back then and the people in Paraguay were making $4000 a year on average.
Of course, the bubble burst then and the Great Recession followed. But I looked up how much the IC hotel was today and it is $100 a night.
Covid has done a number in Brazil, and I have gotten my vaccine, and my plan is to head there in April. I have already been on SA and am loading up on phone numbers. It is not as good as Bogota so far but I still have time.