which was alarmingly close to the stage, and then read the menu by a very charming waiter. Blimey we hadn’t been anywhere this posh since I don’t know when!! After eating our first two courses the lights were dimmed and the band were introduced. There was an accordion player, a violinist, a pianist and a double bass player. I swear that none of them were under sixty-five but boy could they play!! And that was just the band!! When the dancers came out both of us were literally open jawed at the display that was presented before us!! These people were just amazing!! I’ve never seen anyone move that way before - they were so fast that the whole thing just seemed to be a blur in front of us! The show lasted for around an hour and a half but didn’t seem like a fraction of that time. Just fabulous! During the show a couple of bottles of Argentina’s finest vino had slipped down so when the dancers came around at the end I had no hesitation when one of the tango ladies asked me if I’d like to dance!! I

felt like a proper clumsy oaf compared to the tango dancing men, but at least I managed not to tread on her toes!! We wandered back through the streets of San Telmo thoroughly enchanted with the nights entertainment and couldn’t resist stopping at a streetside bar for another tipple of vino!!

On our final day as a result of the night’s merriment we didn’t get so much done! We managed lunch in the same café where we’d drank wine on the sidewalk the night before, followed by a stroll through the city’s shopping streets once more. We stopped to buy a cheaper MP3 player for Hel which we’d decided on only to find that they had sold out. We managed to battle the rugby scrum which is the train and bus stations and buy our ticket for the journey south towards the whales. We watched the sunset over the Plaza Fuerta Aerea Argentina, a park which houses the Torre de los Ingleses, a very