The Guardian goes to Buenos Aries

Just before New Year, The Guardian, a UK newspaper published a couple of tango articles. In the first, journalist Robert Elms headed to Buenos Aries, to dance the tango.

This is the "tangopolis", a swaggering yet blue city obsessed with the wheezing melancholia of the accordion, and the blazing footwork of the dancers. If you really want to understand the complex psyche of the Argentinian capital, you have to know tango. If you really want to know tango, master its moves and more importantly its soul, you have to fly for 13 hours and immerse yourself in this big, disorientating southern town. But then what a town.

For those keen to follow in his foot (dance) steps, there's also a travel guide to the capital of the tango world.