Comments on: Tango Sabbatical http://www.slowplanet.com/blog/2009/07/14/tango-sabbatical/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 17 May 2012 09:17:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Carl http://www.slowplanet.com/blog/2009/07/14/tango-sabbatical/#comment-204 Carl Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:24:55 +0000 http://www.slowplanet.com/blog/?p=243#comment-204 This really takes me back to when I lived in Buenos Aires in the mid 90s. Tango was everywhere so I gave it a shot. The music, the melancholy, the sensuality, the louche air that hung over the dance halls made for a hypnotic cocktail. But I didn't get very far. I didn't improve as quickly as I expected so I gave up. Too impatient. Failing to learn, or at least failing to start to learn tango, is the one regret I have from my years in Argentina. I plan to put that right one of these days, probably when the kids are a bit older and we have more time in the evenings. Next time I'll learn it properly. Slowly, in other words. This really takes me back to when I lived in Buenos Aires in the mid 90s. Tango was everywhere so I gave it a shot. The music, the melancholy, the sensuality, the louche air that hung over the dance halls made for a hypnotic cocktail. But I didn’t get very far. I didn’t improve as quickly as I expected so I gave up. Too impatient.

Failing to learn, or at least failing to start to learn tango, is the one regret I have from my years in Argentina. I plan to put that right one of these days, probably when the kids are a bit older and we have more time in the evenings.

Next time I’ll learn it properly. Slowly, in other words.

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