All you need to know about tango in Buenos Aires

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Readers have asked for some guidance on tango in Buenos Aires - where to learn, where to dance.  What a seriously difficult task ...

Buenos Aires - ‘the long stay’

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After enjoying temperatures in the upper 20’s and lower 30’s, this week they have plummeted to a chilly 24 degrees centigrade, with a ...

Convento San Ramon Nonato

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“Let us take lunch again in the monastery garden at Convento San Ramon Nonato”, I say to Maria Cristina, my lawyer friend from Recolet...

Mindfulness, awareness and tango

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Jon Kabat-Zinn, pioneer of modern mindfulness, says that mindfulness is “a form of meditation”. “To be mindful is to be aware”, he say...
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Milonga de Juan

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Milongas: after years of survival of the fittest, even some of the survivors have disappeared. Confiteria Ideal at Suipacha 384, El Arranq...

Return to Feria de los Mataderos

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Assiduous followers of this blog will remember my last trip to the feria in November 2013. It is time for our return visit, today a rom...
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Morning exercises for tangueros

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https://www.facebook.com/TheSomaRoom/videos/1882712998462391/ Perfect for dancers, especially tangueros and tangueras.  Leave a messag...

13 Fronteras

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What do you do with flyers that come through the letterbox? Normally, they are irrelevant to life and go in the bin. But there was...

Bond and Moneypenny in Buenos Aires

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Planning to visit Buenos Aires, or maybe a regular visitor here? Then you should check out ‘Bond and Moneypenny in Buenos Aires’ a b...

Salon Canning and Orquesta Romantica Milonguera

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There are fringe milongas; and there are posh ones. Salon Canning (or just Canning to its regulars) is definitely one of the posh ones...

Finding Friends in Buenos Aires

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Facebook friends, and other blog readers will already have discovered my ‘other’ blog. Its title might suggest that you should be ...

Its time for asado - Buenos Aires style

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It is time for an asado. Asado is taken very seriously here in Buenos Aires.”How is your asado?” is the third question that a woma...

Sunday in San Telmo

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‘Hielo, hielo’, is the call from Calle Defensa. I peer down from the terrace to spy the white-coated icecream vendor threading his way t...

Bar Los Laureles - Golden Age of tango

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Have you been to Bar Los Laureles? Deep in Barracas, southern barrio of Buenos Aires, there is a cafe. It dates back to 1893 when ...