History, drama, people watching, a little shopping, a lot of walking and some really good scones. Just don’t go to The Rocks on a Tuesday....
What to do in Sydney when you’re not dancing tango
From the Top End to the Red Centre
What to do in, around and a little further afield from Darwin when you’re not dancing tango. Highlights of a one week trip from Darwin to Uluru....
A class, a practica, a milonga: two nights in Melbourne
Within hours of arriving, I was on my way to my first tango class since I started this trip. Melbourne, like Sydney, seems to have tango events nearly every night of the week and I wanted to make the most of the 48 hours that I had there....
Dancing Tango in Hobart
Apparently I was staying in a remote part of Hobart. The driver of the airport shuttle reluctantly agreed to drop me off, but said I’d have to get my return pick up from one of the hotels in the centre. We don’t normally come out this way. The tour guide who picked me up two days later said it was the first time in his career that he’d picked...
Tango at the Top End
“This is number 13,” the taxi driver insisted as I stared dubiously at the building from which no light was emerging. He very kindly agreed to wait while I went to investigate. The first door I came to was locked. I went around the corner to the next door and looked inside. No dance floor, no tango music, but what seemed to be an office. Luckily there was still...