Day 2: Senor Tango and a B.A. Tax driver

Senor Tango, one of the big tango show for tourists.
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After a short rest, acquiring the environ of Hotel Bobo, we were picked up by our driver for the Tango Show.  The place was called Senor Tango. Because of our hotel is not in downtown, we have to go to the central location to meet other tourists to go to the show.  Nomally it was about 10 min drive from Hotel Bobo but sometime takes over 20 min. during the rash hour to get to the downtown hotel.

Ipon arrival at Senor Tango, we were escorted to the second floor overlooking the stage. We shared the table with a nice Florida couple for a steak dinner. It was so so, not fantastically great steak but was very big meal for us. The show started after the dinner around 10 PM.

Tango show and a nice cab driver

Overlooking the stage of Sr Tango
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The place was huge and packed with locals and tourists alike. It was fantastic show with sound effects (using computer, I think), lights, songs and very energetic Tango dances one after another, non-stop for two hours. It is the show one must see to understand it. You could attend the show only without dinner. Our driver took us back to the downtown meeting hotel but then it was nearly 1 AM and there was no other driver in sight to take us back to Hotel Bobo. We didn't know what to do but fortunately the downtown hotel staff called a taxi for us to go back to our hotel.

Down below us, floor level.
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We heard a lot about the taxi drivers in B.A. but our experience was totally different. First of all he did not speak English and did not know where is Hotel Bobo. Wow, we thought we had it! Then he started (I think he had a vague idea) and driving to we didn't know where. At least the hotel staff told him about rough idea where our hotel is located. As I noted earlier, BA has too many one way streets. Naturally the driver has to go around every possible streets hoping to find the right direction, just like New York city. Finally he found the hotel and the meter was 11.25 peso (usually we pay about 6 or 7 pesos). It was past 1 AM so we gave him 20 peso for his extra efforts as well as we didn't have a smaller bills and told him that we don't need the change. As he did not understand us he started to look for change. I guess he couldn't find the exact amount. So he gestured that he would only charge us ten peso because he made wrong turns as did not know the area well (He was saying, I guess, it was his fault to charge us extra). Wow, what a sweat guy! and he refused to take a tip. Anyway we pushed 20 peso to him and left the cab as he was gesturing thank you (?). The experiences made us feel great to be in Buenos Aires instead of other big cities.