Tango in Malmo

Across the Oresund strait from Copenhagen lies a major Swedish city
Malmo. It's not quite New Jersey, yet it gave us some much needed break
from endless sightseeing. We liked walking around the cobblestone
streets of the pedestrian center, savoring oresund salmon in the street
cafe, trying out-of-this-world danishes - something we couldn't find in
the neighboring Denmark. Perhaps I should also mention that we also
didn't find any hamburgers in Hamburg, except those sold in numerours
Burger Kings and McDonalds.

While walking around Malmo we came to a sign that invited us to a tango
night and we gladly accepted the offer. We went upstairs to a beatiful
dimly lit ballroom, where besides us there were only 4 more couples,
representing about 5-6 different nationalities. As we were explained,
in no way the small number of people in the ballroom should be taken as
a sign that tango is not popular in Malmo. Quite the opposite - there
were 2 more tango parties happening on the same night, and the party we
came for somewhat lost to competition. I wonder how good was the
competition if this place was nothing short of perfect?

Malmo seems to have even more international flavor and more things going
than Copengagen. I.e. had we stayed here for one more night we would've
definitely checked out Balkan party. But for better or worse, we must
catch a ferry to Oslo to get there in time for Medieval festival. Once
again, it's a tough life ahead.