Our workshop schedule for CITA
Friday, February 23, 2007
Here is a breakdown of our workshop schedule for the CITA Festival (11 Mar-18 Mar). We are pretty excited about the chance to learn from all of these world-class tango dancers (absolutely no offence intended to all of our Adelaide-based Siempre Tango teachers who are awesome too – plus I'm sure they'd be jumping at the chance to come along!).
This list of 15 workshops is whittled down from an original list of 150!!
- Mon 12/3 Ganchos (INT)
Claudia Codega y Esteban Moreno - Mon 12/3 Diferentes Abrazos (INT-ADV)
Sebastian Arce y Mariana Montes - Tue 13/3 Piernazos (INT)
Sebastian Arce y Mariana Montes - Wed 14/3 Milonga. Introduccion y ritmica (INT-ADV)
Sebastian Arce y Mariana Montes - Wed 14/3 Vals (INT-ADV)
Julio Balmaceda y Corina De La Rosa - Wed 14/3 Colgadas (INT)
Mariano "Chicho" Frúmboli y Lucia Mazer - Thu 15/3 Soltadas (INT)
Sebastian Arce y Mariana Montes - Thu 15/3 Combinaciones de piernazos y soltadas (INT-ADV)
Sebastian Arce y Mariana Montes - Thu 15/3 Sacadas y entradas hombre y mujer (INT)
Julio Balmaceda y Corina De La Rosa - Fri 16/3 Musicalidad. Ritmo. Aceleraciones (ADV)
Claudia Codega y Esteban Moreno - Fri 16/3 Musicalidad. Pausa y contratiempo (INT)
Adrián Veredice y Alejandra Hobert - Sat 17/3 Musicalidad (ADV)
Mariano "Chicho" Frúmboli y Lucia Mazer - Sat 17/3 Ganchos. Disociacion. Posibilidades en el giro (INT)
Sebastian Arce y Mariana Montes - Sun 18/3 Diferentes abrazos. Apoyos y transciciones (ADV)
Sebastian Arce y Mariana Montes - Sun 18/3 Figuras para tango salon (INT)
Julio Balmaceda y Corina De La Rosa
The only couple we have had the privilege of learning from so far has been Adrian and Alejandra who are absolutely amazing! There are some photos of their successful visit to Adelaide on the Siempre Tango web site.
We also plan to record as many steps as we can remember on video so we have a visual record to refer to later on.
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A few articles about our desinations
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Have found some local newspaper articles on some of the countries we are visiting.
- "Easy steps to good life". Geoffrey Williams, Sunday Mail (SA).
- "Slumming it in Rio". Patrick O'Neil, Courier Mail (QLD).
- "It's Bargaintina". James Shrimpton, The Age (VIC), October 30, 2006.
- "A fine fleecing in the jungle of Rio". The Sun-Herald (NSW), Feb 12, 2007
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Labels: articles, buenos aires, rio de janeiro, travel
Amazing Foz de Iguazu... can't wait!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Just discovered some cool images and videos of one of the most amazing waterfalls in the world....Iguazu Falls at the Argentinian, Brazilian and Paraguan border. Apparently more spectacular than Niagara Falls and not quite as wide as Victoria Falls. The Flickr site has some great photography from many of its users and I found this cool narrated snippet from a documentary at YouTube.
I also discovered a story from The Age which details the experience nicely. Then there is Wikipedia which as always has some great user-contributed information and links to other sites. Oh and here's the link to satellite images from Google Maps.
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Labels: iguazu, sights, travel
ATMs in Buenos Aires
I just heard the unqualified rumour today that some if not all of the ATMs in Buenos Aires have recently been updated to limit withdrawal amount to 100 pesos per transaction (which is about $40 AUD). Not only is there the inconvenience of being unable to withdraw enough money for a few day's use (I assume this is to thwart express kidnappings involving ATMs) there would also be excessive fees from needing to use the ATM more to get enough money. Craziness. :)
Update 24/02/07: According to the Buenos Aires Herald this was a glitch by Banelco which should be fixed albeit still restricted to 300 pesos a transaction and 3 transactions a day... better than nothing.
Sources at Banelco, Argentina’s electronic funds transfer company, told the Herald that the glitch arose because a ruling by Plus had been misinterpreted by local officials and that this had resulted in the capped withdrawals yesterday.
"The glitch is being worked on and the system should allow tourists to make up to three withdrawals a day of up to 300 pesos each," the source said.
A similar confirmation was received by the Visa card company, whose spokeswoman, Carolina Samudio, said that the system will return to normal by today.
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Labels: atm, money, rumour, travel
Google Maps and Local Live
I've had a little bit of fun in the last few days looking at the physical locations of where we are staying and visiting on the Google Maps (GM) and Microsoft Local Live (LL) tools. Both have their limitations (GM doesn't have street details but decent satellite imagery of Buenos Aires, where LL has the reverse) but between the two I have managed to get a good idea of what the areas are like.
One of the major highways in Buenos Aires is called 9 De Julio and it is a monster.... 12 lanes of traffic ... don't want to be caught in the middle of that one. The area around our apartments looks nice with some parks and city squares in the area of both. The Recoleta cemetery is visible and just looks just like another neighbourhood in the area from above.
Map for Buenos Aires Downtown centred near where we are staying during CITA. Google Maps, Local Live
Map for Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro where we stay for 6 days before flying home. Google Maps, Local Live
You can click and drag around the map to change the view point and also zoom in and out. A cool feature they both have (if the data exists) is to overlay the street map onto the satellite imagery. All you need to do is click on "Map/Road", "Satellite/Aerial" or "Hybrid" to see the different view points.
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Labels: buenos aires, map, travel