Casa de Cambio on the pedestrian street Lavalle,
downtown Buenos Aires.
Lurking around the Microcentro (downtown) pedestrian walkways are the money changers. The unofficial houses of change. Last week, in one block i counted nine.
Cambio, cambio, is their call (exchange), the words that link them all. That and their cellphones and cigarettes. 'Dollares y reals' ...American into Pesos, and the other way around i guess. They are the Blue-market, the informal foreign currency exchangers. No uniform, no office space...so low overheads, apparently offering a better bang for your buck.
Another one of the things in this city that delight.
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