Off we go again!

Leaving Malmö as usual when the Malmö Tango Festival begins, strangely enough. Belgrade is waiting, just lite Croatia and Bosnia. See if any pictures will come soon...

VISA and new year´s eve

Lost my VISA in this cash despenser. another guy lost it just before me so I knew it was a strange machine, but i decided to try it anyway.....living on the edge you know.

And spent new year´s eve with my argentinian family and special guest ehsan from uppsala, champagne, lovely PAN DULCE and show with 12 year old Cecilia who lives here. then for some tango at la VIRUTA and some argentinian pop music a la 80´s and 90´s. argentinian GYLLENE TIDER and all Swedes, and one Englishman, will know what i am talking about. by the way, heard this story of an Englishman travelling around south america, with kind of crappy spanish, thinking that the word for "the bill please" was "una cervez por favor", which means "a beer please"... took some time for him to find out why they brought him so many beers insted of the bills...

the nicest place to be in a hot day like new year's eve was the freezer.

simon´s shoes

he wanted to see them, so here they come!

Gardel ladies

Yes, Maria confirmed that the custom is to throw all good old papers and not needed documents out in the streets the last day of the year. People even collect things they know they can throw away on that particular day! So the streets are white and the cleaners hope for no rain...

Went to the cementery of Chacarita, where the famous tango singer Carlos Gardel is buried. A wonderful calm awaited me there. I like cementeries! To escape from the chaos in the city. And I had this nice, really nice talk with an older lady that came to "my" bench to have her Sunday chat with a foreigner. That is the best, meeting Argentinians and asking them stuff about life here.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year and myself a couple of comments on this blog! :)

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my new favourite teachers. they re cool

loads of paper in the street. will ask maria what it is for. heard on the bus: something like "cleaning the old year out" custom. weird?

a house in la boca. the most touristic part o town!

by the way: my new favourt restaurant in the world: artemisia. veggie and fish. situated cabrera/a de figueroa. go there.

Vos, de donde sos?

That is the most usual question you will get her. And you, were are you from? I even got it over the phone, when I answered at Maria´s.... Why did he want to know that? He called from a phone company... What you see here are fotos from San Telmo, a changing room in the middle of the street. And then the fotos from Christmas Nochebuena! First 4 of the 10 girls that came to say hello the first thing when I came in through the door. Hola, and kiss on every cheek. Then a foto of Cecilia, that was the host (well, in the house of her brother Guillermo´s and his wife´s). And of the great grand mother that is 94 years old... Still going strong and as happy as the girls for her Christmas presents! And of te earound 25 people kissing each other a Merry Christmas at midnight, just before opening the presents. And of me in the school tango brujo (bewitched tango?) class. Before it started today.

Oh, home is getting closer. I actually, believe it or not, feel like changing my quite monotonous days of shopping, restaurants, dancing, staying out late, sleeping til late, for something more cosy and personal... But do not want to change the weather to the one that is waiting for me in Malmo!!!!!

Hello everyone. A bit chillier here, around 15 degrees in the night!

Some new pictures. Cinthya came knocking on the door one day. It showed we live close here as well as we did an Malmo. Around the corner!

And then I went to see Maria's frame shop. We also went to the Comme il Faut shoe shop and to her surprise, Maria saw one of her frames around a huge shoe there! She remembers thinking that she was doing the frame to somebody who was as crazy for shoes as she is (she did not know it was for this in the tango world very famous shop). Maria has around 100 pairs of shoes in different colours at home. I have seen them myself...

and a picture of me in from of the museum of bellas artes.

and of me and Anibal, that I met with Sofia in Stockholm i november!

And of my new Delie favourites. :)

and of me and Malin sunbathing on the terrace...

Miss you all