Feb 23, Buenos Aires - Senor Tango

Woke up to a rainy day not hot just warm for a change but still humid. As it was such a big day yesterday decided to sleep in and take it easy today. Went for a bit of a walk around the hotel area and couldn’t help but notice how many police they have here just walking around you see them on nearly every corner, the driver last night said that they don’t have much trouble in Buenos Aires because of the amount of police they have on the streets it’s a very safe city. Booked tickets for Senor Tango one of the premier Tango shows here for tonight. Pick up and drop off was included and we were informed they would pick us up at 7.30 when they hadn’t arrived by 8 the receptionist at the hotel phoned and they said pickups start at 7.30 but can take a while, we were eventually picked up at 8.35 in a bus with 4 other couples. The theatre was a good 20-minute drive from our hotel, through some extremely busy traffic they have a lot of one way streets here and the boulevards can be up to 10 lanes across most about 6 lanes. The theatre was huge would seat a few hundred people, we were on the ground floor next to the stage great location there were 3 tiers of balconies. It was your typical dinner entrée, spinach pancake then choice of steak chicken or fish for main we chose steak and it was huge cooked perfectly and very juicy, dessert was tiramisu also included was a small bottle of wine each, water and soft drinks was quite enjoyable.  The show was excellent first up they started with two horses on stage then proceeded to do lots of Tango either in couples or as a group, even had one who flew through the sky as part of her routine, they also had singers unfortunately everything was in Spanish so missed out on what they were telling the audience.  Towards the  end of the show the musicians left the stage and a group of 12 very old guys came out they would have been in their late 70’s and 80’s they had to help the conductor to walk, he was so frail but then they started to perform and they were great from what we could understand they are original musicians from this show. Was a very enjoyable night after the show you had to go outside and locate the bus with your number on it which we did only to have the driver tell us we had to get on another bus, explained that this was the bus we came on and he was our driver but he said no need to change buses was a little disconcerting but all ended ok and we finally got back to the hotel about 1am.

No Pictures today not allowed to take photos in the theatre.