Don's Travel Blog

Last Tango in Buenos Aires

Fairly uneventful flight back into BA from Iguazu and straight onto a “Lunch & City Tour”. Basically off the plane, onto a coach and then off to an Italian restaurant. A fairly leisurely lunch and then back on the coach for a whistle stop tour of some districts of BA (only some as the place is huge) with a stop off at “La Boca”

Then back to the Hotel to check in at 6pm, retrieve the luggage we left behind a few days ago and then out again at 7pm for a “Tango” dinner and show. 

Only just made it!

This evening was the first time the main group of the MacMania tour joined together as the Iguazu trip was optional and many people didn’t opt in. Really great to see some old faces from the previous MacMania cruises. 

So the Dinner was excellent (I’ll skip on the optional Tango lessons, Mrs Don and I decided to sit those out), and the show was technically brilliant with a great live orchestra and some pretty nimble dancing - I’ve never really appreciated the subtleties of Tango before. The show included some archival footage of the history of Tango - fascinating stuff but to be honest, by the time 11:15pm came around, we were all pretty beat. The show finished at 11:45 and back to the Hotel.

We’ve already booked on a full day tour tomorrow, but decided that we’d best sit that one out and just have a catch up day. Still lot’s ahead.

Bumped into Leo in the hotel lobby and after a quick chat, headed up to bed.

The hotel has pretty decent Wifi in the room so it’s checking emails and sorting out ScreenCastsOnline member queries for a bit but then I have to upload the files for next week’s ScreenCastsOnline show. There’s only tonight and tomorrow when I’m guaranteed decent internet access so I’ve kicked off the 500MB upload to continue overnight.

Providing everything works OK, I’ll update the RSS feeds tomorrow and test.

So it’s 1:22am and I’d better hit the sack.

I’ll continue to update this Tumblr blog as best I can with the rest of the trip, for my own personal record than for anything else. Not sure how updating will be when on the ship, but we’ll see.