La Viruta Armenia 1366

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The missing post - from 2010, but worth revisiting Pizza at midnight left us with an appetite to dance. Liana, Miles, Charlotte and I sat ...

Cafe Tortoni revisited

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Some say that you should not re-track your past adventures and often they are right. Last time I visited Cafe Tortoni you will recall that ...

El Enganche

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Young, slim, with fair hair and exquisite eyes, Celia glances across the table towards me, and along with the others in the room I smile and...

Cafe Paulin, Sarmiento 635

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It is 1530 hrs and we leave Escuela Argentina de Tango at Centro Cultural Borges after the milonga class with Damian Garcia and Fatima and...

Tacuari

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" The Tacuarí, the new Tango space that manage Ruth and Andreas, dear tango “Maestros”in San Telmo ". When friends at El Sol de ...

La Milonga de los Consagrados

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Those of you who have read my previous blog entries will remember Lucia as my former taxi dancer, and Jerry as her partner and father of the...

La Orquesta del Tango de Buenos Aires vuelve al Alvear

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Rachel y Eduardo's message invites me to attend a tango concert at the Teatro Alvear in the heart of the city. I know precisely where t...

Milonga La Marshall, Maipu 444 Buenos Aires

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"Yes, I've been there once before and it was fun". And so, with the taxi arriving at 11 pm together with my tanguera from El S...

Arrived in Buenos Aires

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I have arrived in Buenos Aires. There is a last moment on the flight side at Ministro Pistarini . Just ahead is a wall of electronic doors t...

Return to Buenos Aires

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Three years to the month. And now in the final few days before returning to Buenos Aires. This time, I will be living in Chacabuco , San T...

A year on

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Pale sunshine through the open window of my tiny Smart car and the music of Astor Piazzolla's Cararra sends me drifting back to Buenos A...

Never say last

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02 Sep 2007 Postscript Last blog? Due to international lament when I said that my last blog was my last blog, I have agreed never to say...

Buenos Aires: reflection postscript

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31 Aug 2007 In my last blog I promised you all, my fellow travellers, my reflections on my adventure and the way it has changed my thinking ...

La Rural, tango and leaving Buenos Aires

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29 Aug 2007 The morning light is thin through the rain. A queue snakes from Plaza Italia out along Avendia Santa Fe towards Palermo. M...

Park Lezama

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30 Jul 2007 Eight green parrots in distinct pairs fly from palm to palm, screeching as they go. Below, Charron arrives, late. Its S...

Cafe Hermann Santa Fe´ 3092

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28 Jul 2007 Those of you who read my blog on Mar del Plata will recall my observations about the German and Austrian influence here in Arg...

Santa Fe´and Scalabrini Ortez

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Its a beautiful day. Sunshine glistens from the tower windows and explicit lingerie hoardings high above Avenue Santa Fe, one of the ma...

Salon Canning milonga

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21 Jul 2007 We meet at 11.30 pm at the ice cream shop in Ave Jorges Borges, Palermo, where I am finishing my gellato. My dance partner fo...

Street life of Calle Florida

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27 Jul 2007 photo by  http://www.urbanphoto.net Calle Florida runs across the heart of the city centre. It is a pedestrian shoppi...

Cafe Tortoni

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16 Jul 2007 Cafe Tortoni Before parting, after an afternoon taking in the late sunshine, walking with tourists, talking in Castillano...

Snowy Buenos Aires!

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09 Jul 2007 Was it 1918 when it last snowed in Buenos Aires ? For those of you who do not live in England and doubt the effect of glob...