On Saturday Ale had to cancel my tango lesson because he had to go to the dentist, so I thought I would be without my tango “fix” for that day. But I had arranged to have dinner with Sally at Los Galgos, a Bar Notable only ten minutes from El Beso, one of my regular milongas, and I remembered there was an afternoon milonga there on Saturdays, so I went along.

I really enjoyed it. The afternoon milongas tend to be less formal, so I wore a toned down version of tango clothes — still wore the shoes of course! I danced with some very good dancers. Two of them looked like “little old men” you would pass on the street without noticing, but boy were they great dancers. One of them told me he had been dancing tango for fifty years! He complimented me on my dancing as we left the floor, and as we happened to be sitting at the same table, we chatted a bit. When I told him I lived here he said, “Yes, I know. If you didn’t live in Buenos Aires you couldn’t dance like that.” How cool is that?

So then I went over to Los Galgos and met Sally. We had a lovely dinner, lots of good chat and a bottle of good Argentine red. She ate the Spanish omelette, and I had a delicious mushroom dish – photos below.