Selys encuentro in Belgium

We started our trip by landing in Frankfurt airport. Our original plan was to rent a car and drive 3 hours to Liège in Belgium, the home for the encuentro, with a stop in Bonn for a VoiceMap tour about Beethoven, and a visit to Beethoven house museum. Unfortunately, given that our flight departed at 5 pm, we couldn’t really fall asleep that early and ended up landing having only slept for a couple of hours. We decided that driving after a sleepless night wasn’t the best choice, plus we’re too tired for a pleasant sightseeing. So we scratched the plan and instead ran to the train station to make a direct train to Liège. We just made the train with 2 minutes to spare, and 2.5 hrs later, we arrived to Liège. It’s one of the top 4 largest cities in Belgium with beautiful modern architecture, as evidenced by the stunning train station building. We then went to the hotel, rested and got ready for the first milonga of the Selys encuentro, which took place in a stunning historical ballroom in the older wing of the hotel. The next four days, until Monday morning, we did not leave the hotel, fully immersed in dancing. We danced, ate tasty meals and slept very little. We had 31 hours of dancing, and I enjoyed 83 magical tandas (which is about 17 hours of pure dancing) with great dancers, the most I ever danced in a single event. It was warm and friendly with a very high level of dancers, probably the best encuentro for us that we ever attended.Read more