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| Pre summer heat wave in Buenos Aires, temperatures reach up to 37 degrees. Too hot to walk around, enjoy an out door cafe or even tango... And summer only starts in another week |
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| Whilst back in the FAR NORTH of Canada, one has the opposite situation....and foolish I is returning to that in another ten days! |
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| Despite furnace heat, Usain Bolt - multiple Gold Medal winner at the Olympics - staged an exhibition race below the Obelisco to the delight of thousands of sweating onlookers. He raced a bus of 59 Line (which I have used in Buenos Aires snail pace traffic a number of times) for about 80 yards, and defeated the bus handily just jogging alongside of it. Someone said, the the bus probably needed a bit of 'el doping'...but then, Buenos Aires buses never get any practice runs at anything faster than 10kms per hour, let's be fair to the 'collectivos' - buses. |
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| Airconditioning at DNI, a tango school, shop, cafe, practice venue - sort of all in one. I went to see Alejandra Orozco and Luciano Brigante, who staged a tango exhibition there. Their classic Villa Urquiza style contrasted noticeably with the style of 'the young things' of Buenos Aires, who exhibit a definite trend to tango athletico with an overabundance of complicated 'adornos'. Somehow not quite the elegant dance Luciano and Alejandra promote, dance and teach. Well, if Google's photo upload would work, there would be a couple of photos of the Saturday nights a Los Cardones, Pena Folklorica, which still presents a number of good artists - life - at a price that one cannot pass up. Another day of calor agobiante - suffocating heat - coming up...one flees to a deeply air conditioned Milonga |
