In Argentina, there seems to be two main ways of being social, at least outside of the cities. The first is to drink mate together (“Vamos a tomar unos mates?”) and the other one is to do an asado, a barbeque. The asado can be fancy and planned and involve nice glasses and lots of wine, or it can be improvised, with a very basic grill, some meat, and some good friends. We did an asado by the barn with colleagues on the first Sunday in seven months that we didn’t have guests in the hotel!