Salsa is at Bar Cuba no more

Well, you miss one lesson and everything changes. We went back to salsa lessons tonight and in the week we’d missed we had actually moved venues. Bar Cuba has apparentlyl been taken over by a group of Russians to turn into some placed called Arch Angel (that will be interesting to see) so Amanda (the organiser) moved the lessons to a nearby bar called The Settle Down Bar. As a venue it was okay with a nice tall roof, reasonable amount of space (sort of) to dance, our own personal DJs in each of the lesson rooms (2) and it didn’t smell! But for its atmosphere it felt just a little too posh (waaaay to many suits around the place) and not down and dirty enough like Bar Cuba. Additionally the music they played at the bar outside of our rooms was absolutely rubbish – typical dance/house/clubbing music – and not in keeping at all with the South American feel we’d normally get. The benefits for Amanda I guess, for moving to the Settle Down Bar was an immediate increase in the number of people coming to the lessons (mainly girls so I guess that’s also good for Sir Jules if they stick around!)