Santos and Shopping. The next morning we headed for the garage that Mario had recommended (his brothers) so we could drop Bertha off to be fixed. Thanks to a tropical storm which was working it's way up the east coast it was tipping it down and by the time we found the place we were already soaked. This wasn't helped by us having the wrong address so we ended up about 4 blocks from where we wanted and had to phone Mario in order to get the correct address. After...

New Yorkers... We woke up in the rest area about 1am at which point we went into MacDonald's to use the internet and try to find a place to stay. After several frustrating hours we finally booked a motel at 5pm as no one bothered to respond to our messages and one guy asked us to book his room through airbnb but then failed to respond to the request or provide his address. By the time we got to the hotel we were cold and annoyed so we decided to go for food at...

NYISC Part 2 We decided to skip the first class in favour of another hour of sleep, especially since having been dancing on 2 for 4 days already we felt a crash course in it wasn't really neccesary. So we headed to the Hilton for a 'KrunkChata' lesson with Jorge (Ataca) and Tamara (La Alemana) from Island Touch. This turned out to be a really fun lesson with some interesting Bachata footwork, even though they treated everyone like 5 year olds when they said ...

The 11th (or maybe 12th) New York International (well there was one guy from France one from Italy and a couple from Puerto Rico) Salsa Congress. The Congress started today with a party at the Hilton right in the centre of Manhattan. We turned up to register at about 5:15 only to discover there was already a huge queue since there were only 3 people to register the estimated 600 people who had bought full passes. We also met up with Ian who came along to try...

Club Cache. Well rested we set off for the official VIP meet and greet and the welcome party. After we were let into the club we were provided with food in the form of a 8 foot long sandwich cut into strips and chicken or vegetable wraps, there was also a workshop by Baila Society which was extreamly with them only having 30 mins to teach their hour lesson as it started late. We were also treated to an open bar where we got a drink each and 4 bottles of wate...