August may be winter in Buenos Aires but it was the month that David and I chose to visit our friends and family in Argentina, hoping of course to fit in a little bit of tango. Who needs the sun to dance tango right?

We left London in 30 degrees heat, sandals and summer clothes and arrived on a dismal Buenos Aires day with lashing rain and wind. We had been prepared for a contrast but this welcome came as something of a shock!

Despite the gloomy start, the month ahead was to give us plenty of beautiful winter’s days, with blindingly bright sun and clear blue skies.

Not so on the day we scheduled for our photo shoot with tango photographer Marcelo Di Rienzo though. As if to challenge our determination, it was an uncharacteristically cold day.

We had chosen a dilapidated building in the Villa Crespo neighbourhood for our location. In the UK, there would be all kinds of health and safety regulations preventing the use of a place like this – stairways with sheer drops, floors that seem to sink as you step on them … but not so in Buenos Aires.

We’re proud to announce that Alejandra Mantiñan – one of the most sought-after tango teachers in the world today – will be returning to us on Saturday 27 October.

With our summer guest teachers – Junior and Guadalupe – jetting off to New York, we will now have a break until our return on Tuesday 4th September.

We’re organising a Welcome Back Party in September following our month-long trip to Buenos AIres.

Twenty years ago when I started tango, I would never have imagined that I would appear on the front page of one of Argentina’s leading newspapers.

But in one of those “pinch yourself” moments, it happened last Saturday.

I knew about it first not because of the article itself but because my Argentine partner’s telephone was constantly pinging while we were trying to teach class.

Every family member and every friend who had ever known him in Argentina were trying to contact him.

Because Clarin is one of Argentina’s top two newspapers.

We of course knew we had done a telephone interview with Clarin a few weeks back but we didn’t know that it would make the front page or that a double page spread would be dedicated to us.