My First Blog...

I´ve decided to start this blog because I´ve been busy posting on a forum about my current tango holiday in Buenos Aires and what its like learning to tango here...and probably boring the pants off everyone. So I thought if I blogged here, people had more choice whether they wanted to read it or not.

Please note I am:

a) Not a writer. This blog will not be beautifully worded, grammatically challenging, wonderfully poignant, prophetically profound, or always spelt correctly.
b) Not a dancer. I had ballet lessons as a child up until I became a young teenager and realised that staying in bed on a saturday morning was much better then doing pliés and being told to stand up straight.

I am however in love with tango.


I learnt for 8/10 weeks 2 years ago with a 1 hour class a week at the Horniman Museum. I then moved north of the river and failed to continue it anywhere else. This year I decided for Christmas to go somewhere hot for 3 weeks. I have a friend in Buenos Aires so thought it might be an idea to visit him and spend some time mooching around the rest of the country. A couple of weeks before I came out I remembered that BA is the home of tango and I had learnt the basics. So did a crash course with 6 classes, 3 private lessons and 6 milongas over two weeks. I then decided to forego the mooching and get stuck straight into the dancing.

Since arriving in BA 2 weeks ago I´ve had at least one class a day and gone to a milonga every night bar 2. Some might say this "a little over the top". I say "not at all". My feet say "ow".


I´ve actually only one more week to go before I leave sunny, glorious BA and head home to drizzly london. But I fully intend to keep on learning there. To the point where yesterday I worked out if I didn´t eat as many Pret lunches and cycled to work how much extra cash I would have left to spend on more classes and private lessons.

So I´ll attempt to keep this blog up and see how it goes. If not for anyone else´s interest, it might be interesting for me to see my progress as time goes by. And so when I´m a World Famous Tango Dancer I can read back and laugh at how little I knew in the beginning. Of course, by that time I will also be an astronaut and a Spice Girl.