Durham
- england dancing
Before starting to work again I am trying to get as much dancing in as possible, and so I went to DJam, a dance workshop in the northeast of England, in the university town of Durham just south of Newcastle. I shared a cheap hotel room with two other dancers from Edinburgh and we had a jolly good time. Over the course of four days I danced my feet off, but also got a chance to have a look around town which lies prettily on the river Wear and features a cathedral, a castle, one of England’s oldest universities, and many wee alleys and secret staircases - well worth a visit.
- wanting to go out for a nice dinner on a Saturday night without having made reservations and ending up with new friends and fun times in a pizza takeaway
- listening to a group of buskers one afternoon playing a very long version of Oh When The Saints, and seeing the same group again at night, quite drunk, (still?) playing the same song
- a dancer doing the splits while dancing Balboa with me
- another one biting my arm during a Blues dance
- and a third one identifying correctly the origin of the whisky I was drinking just from smelling my breath.
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