Serious Dancing

I have never been able to dance well, and many have ridiculed my attempts, and to be honest I thought Tango or other classes were a pre-internet dating agency, so if I had a partner why bother?

Despite these issues, it's always a pleasure in Buenos Aires to see some really capable tango dancers, and you can do that in the street at lunchtime in the San Telmo district.

So we walked there via the Plazza de Mayo , where the president's Palace is. It's best known as the place where the mothers of the disappeared protested the savagery of the military dictatorship. They still come these days, but are renamed the grandmother's of the disappeared.

I had feared that the dancers would no longer be there, as the dancing is now sold in innumerable shows and lessons, but I shouldn't have worried, there were two couples dancing just where others had been in the past.

We spent a couple of hours watching, with a lunch of empanadas and cold drinks. 3 of the 4 kids loved it, as did Flo and I. The 4th kid loves empanadas, so he got something too.

After that, we briefly went to see the colourful port area of La Boca.

At night, we struggled in a local sushi place, as the menu was in Spanish. Japanese translated to Spanish, and then English makes no sense. Food was mostly good if not brilliant.Read more