The Floor is your Friend

Regina and I had booked a lesson with Carlos who is much admired by Regina - correction, make that idolised!
He does not teach steps but is so exact on the fundamentals and drilled us for 2 hours at which point we had to leave even though he would have carried on for another 2 hours. Practice....and more practice!  Daily practice.
then Cafe Tortoni beckoned and we slipped back in time a 100 years and enjoyed our lunch.
Off to La Viruta and is this different!  This is where the youth of Buenos Aires come to learn and develop salsa, tango and other latin things.  Led by Horacio Godoy who is the most dynamic man I have seen.  Leading the warm up dance, organising the lessons and taking part with 4 other teacher partnerships in an astonishing show tango.  All so good and we did not know where to look as we did not want to miss anything.
We did an Intermediate milonga lesson wwhich ws a waste really but then an advanced tngo and Martin Gutierrez taught an exciting step.
We danced a little more and left the 300 or so who were there to their long night of dancing and eating and we headed for Nino Bien.
So different again.  A lot of young well dressed and shod dancers!  A wooden floor witth tables around and groups of friends sitting together.  Not the separation of men and women as in the traditional milongs.  We did not dance much here but were happy to soak up the atmosphere.  It started to thin out about 3am and we headed for home.