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Excess at LarcoMar
We got up in time for breakfast and then knuckled down to sort out our plans for Europe later in the year. We got out the map of Europe we had bought for S2.50 in Cuzco and Andy went to buy some stickers to mark it with. We then spent the next 8 hours putting dots on for all the places there were congresses on, colour coordinating them depending what month they were on to try and help us see a logical route to take to get to as many as possible. I also nipped out to get some bread for a lunch of egg sandwiches which was a welcome break from our mind numbing task. Eventually and after much debating, to-ing and fro-ing through websites and elimination processes we got the dots on the map down from 60 to 17, with a couple of variables still to be decided! Feeling pleased with ourselves we had more pancakes for tea then got ready to go out dancing again. We were fairly sure (though you can never be 100%) that there was salsa on at a club at LarcoMar, the huge shopping centre by the sea that we'd previously visited and so walked over there with our fingers crossed. We found the club and they said yes there was salsa on, all night, but it was only 10pm and there was no one else in there yet so we decided to go and get a drink first. Having walked around and looked at all the prices, we found ourselves in the cafe of the ice cream parlour where we had treated ourselves on Valentines Day and ordered a Caffe Moka each for S4 (about £1) which is a double expresso with chocolate and was absolutely delicious!! After savouring our coffees we headed back to the club which although it didnt look any busier was at least still playing salsa, so we paid to go in and found ourselves in a nice little bar with huge windows that looked out across the sea, a reasonable floor if a little small and about 5 staff all looking a little bored with no customers. We soon got up to dance and at least they had a bit of entertainment before people started coming in at 11ish, including Andy and Tamara, the teachers from Chile who we had been so impressed by throughout the whole congress not only on their classes but on their conduct too. They did all the classes they could when they weren't teaching but unlike many of the performance groups didnt always rush to the front but tended to stay near the back or to the side, giving others a chance to see what was going on, or like me, someone else I could watch to see how it was done as I couldnt see the teachers on the stage! Pleased at this development we continued to dance and after a while Andy (Chilean) asked me for a dance too. I think I only messed up a couple of leads and thoroughly enjoyed myself, much more so than I would have if I'd danced with him at the congress where I'd have felt everyone would have been watching and I'd have gone to pieces. We spoke for a while afterwards and he called Tamara over who speaks more English and I chatted with them for half hour or so before we all needed to dance some more Where they live in Chile (a town called Temuco in the south) there is not much salsa and so when they do a congress they take full advantage of all and any dancing they can get! By 3am we were starting to get tired and people were leaving so we got up to go, said goodbye to Andy and Tamara and headed back to the hostel where we fell straight to sleep.
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