Let's talk about the daily life in El Corte.

Morning

Breakfast at El Corte

Every morning we have very nice food for breakfast: bread, fruits, yogurt, cheese, etc., you could have milk, tea or coffee as well.  Most of the people (I think it's all of them) took breakfast instead of sleeping even if they were very tired, because first we could not sleep in the dance hall after breakfast, and Komala, one of the hosts of El Corte always played very nice and lively classical-tango music, which definitely woke one up. And it's also very nice to talk to people during breakfast simply because everybody was there!

After breakfast, it was time for lessons.  For those who joined the first class of the day, Eric will do a short and funny warm-up exercises with you before the class.  If you're not in the class, or if you're a visitor, you could also sit in front of the dance hall to watch or even video the class.

Maybe I should explain the differences between a participant and visitor. I was a participant, so I had to take those classes that I signed up when I registered; for visitors, they did not take any classes, but they could watch the classes, and they only dance d in the practica or milonga, then they payed less for the event.  Some people liked to try what was taught in the class on the small dance floor just next to the dance hall, so most of the time there're always people dancing in and out the dance hall.

Afternoon

The small dance hall and the bar.  The TV shower could be seen on the left.

After two lessons came lunch time.  It's another time that you could see nearly all the participants and visitors of the event.  I must say, for me the lunch was the best I had these days when I stayed in El Corte (of course if you're willing to spend more, you could always get something good somewhere else, but I didn't want to spend much here, so...).   After lunch the dance floor was opened for everyone who wanted to dance and practice.  If you didn't want to dance, some people would choose to go to the city centre to do some shopping or have a walk.   The city centre was just 10 mins walk from El Corte.  After 4pm and until the other round of classes start at 7pm, the dance floor is closed.  So many people went out for dinner, but I liked to stay in El Corte, because it's more quite, but you could still have some very nice people to talk to.

Evening

Snooze time...

The other round of classes finished at around 10pm, and then was the milonga until 1am. 

T'is the routine in El Corte during the International Tango Week.  When you got use to everything here, it's actually quite relax, and at the same time you could still tango a lot, that's very nice.