I love finding people's experiences of tango as they travel the world. This traveller, calling himself qrmucho, give a great account of tango dancing on Defensa:
On my first day in Buenos Aires I met a craftsman in
the park. After a nice chat with him he told me something that I didn’t quite understand at that time. ¨Buenos Aires is as melancholic as Tango¨. I didn’t give it any more thoughts…The following day; I went for a walk around the city. There is a street called Defensa, that every Sunday becomes pedestrian so it is full of tango dancers and singers. Some of them are young and good looking; some are old people trying to get some money for their retirement. There are also some old ladies and gents, part of the public, that in between songs and shows they always try to get a dance with the good looking young street dancer. You can see melancholy also in the architecture, buildings show the footprint left by the colonial time. Big old colonial buildings and loads of antique good furniture resting in the selves of antique shops, articles from the rich times...
Such great details in there.
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