Leaving Buenos Aires

I'm not ready to leave Buenos Aires. It's not the city that I'll miss - it's not a particularly beautiful city - it's the people, the friendliness, the smiles.


And there's so much more that I want to do. Mostly connected to dance. The Lindy Hop scene is really good, and the tango... well the tango. My tango has improved to the point that I don't thoroughly embarrass myself whenever I shuffle my feet onto the dance floor. But I've not had a bad night. Even when I haven't danced or when my dancing is terrible, I still enjoy soaking up the atmosphere of these places. The music is so mesmerising that I can just listen for hours watching the movement of feet on the floor.


We did a daytrip out of the city to a river delta. It's like a rich man's playground, where people have holiday homes, and boats. There's waterskiing, swimming, camping and bbqs. It's a place of fun, and it's closer to nature than the city. It was such a relief to get out of the noise and dirt of the city and into this place of fun and relaxation. It was difficult to understand what we were doing... Where is this boat going? don't know! Well, let's take it and see what happens. We got drenched on the boat, but just laughed it off. It was lovely. Yet still I craved the tango.


It's not long now till I join the climbing trip, and I'm really excited about seeing the mountains and climbing them. Yet I know I will miss the dancing. There really is so much in this world that I want to learn and experience, but they all compete for the same short amount of time. Most of the places I have visited in this world I have thought of as once in a lifetime visits. Buenos Aires is different - I know I will come back here.