https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/ A travel and dance notebook, 2014–2018. en https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/how-i-managed-to-travel-for-a-year-with-no-salary.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/how-i-managed-to-travel-for-a-year-with-no-salary.html Tue, 22 May 2018 04:16:23 +0000 I wanted it I'd watched colleagues leave on this kind of adventure before, and while it made me quietly dream, I couldn't really picture doing the same — it didn't seem like a life for me, and… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/2017-afro-cuban-project-by-sol.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/2017-afro-cuban-project-by-sol.html Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:37:23 +0000 Seoul: Summer 2017 On each of my stays in Seoul I take "Afro-Cuban/Contemporary" dance classes with Sol . Every year, from the start of June, a special class is set up to build a routine, with a view… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/i-hate-facebook.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/i-hate-facebook.html Sat, 05 Nov 2016 08:06:59 +0000 Aix-en-Provence, 5 November 2016 This morning I hate Facebook — and yet I can't stop myself spending at least one* hour of every one of my days on it, and have done for a few years now ( * I think… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/goooooaaaaaaaal.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/goooooaaaaaaaal.html Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:21:36 +0000 Aix-en-Provence, 27 October 2016 I recently finished a book I liked a lot, and which had an almost immediate effect on me: " The One Thing " (in French here ) . The book offers some advice on how to… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/why-i-left.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/why-i-left.html Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:52:09 +0000 Aix-en-Provence, 24 June 2016 Six months after coming home, I feel the need to explain the reasons behind this round-the-world project. It's a story I've told plenty of times already, but writing it… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/paris-back-from-the-round-the-world-trip.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/paris-back-from-the-round-the-world-trip.html Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:22:31 +0000 Paris, 3 January 2016 I'm back :-)! So I've literally gone around the world... It hasn't really sunk in yet. My great fear, even before starting this trip, was that I'd be depressed when I got home,… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/tokyo-accommodation.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/tokyo-accommodation.html Thu, 03 Dec 2015 09:58:57 +0000 I turned to Airbnb again to find somewhere to stay in the ultimate megalopolis that is Tokyo :-) . For my first few days I found a place near Shimbashi station, which was the closest to the salsa… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/tokyo-salsa.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/tokyo-salsa.html Wed, 02 Dec 2015 15:38:39 +0000 I smile just thinking back to my salsa nights in Tokyo :-) — that's the magic of salsa and its community. I really did run into some very kind people in that city. On the dancing itself, there are… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/south-korea-2015-the-year-of-style.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/south-korea-2015-the-year-of-style.html Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:17:22 +0000 Seoul, 25 September Oh, how ironic this title is... yes, I'm going to complain again : I left to go backpacking, I didn't bring many clothes, I don't even have a suit, blah blah blah... :-D But… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/south-korea-seoul-mambo-capital.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/south-korea-seoul-mambo-capital.html Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:43:50 +0000 Seoul, 25 October 2015 You'll have noticed the question mark in the title of this post? I don't want to start a controversy :-D — this is of course my own experience, but given my stay I sincerely… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/south-korea-follow-the-eater.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/south-korea-follow-the-eater.html Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:42:57 +0000 Korea, 25 October 2015 Every day spent here offers up treasures of sensation to my palate. It's funny, actually, because you should know that in all the places I went to there was no English menu, so… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/philippines-manila.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/philippines-manila.html Sat, 03 Oct 2015 00:54:50 +0000 The flight This flight lasted 14 hours (my new record) — that's what I had to endure before my first Asian stop :-). But it went very well; among other things I watched "Mad Max: Fury Road" on the… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/philippines-island-hopping-in-el-nido.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/philippines-island-hopping-in-el-nido.html Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:05:49 +0000 "Island hopping" means doing a circuit of the islands around El Nido. There are tours A, B, C and D. Each one takes in about five islands — the most popular ones, out of the 45 that surround the town… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/new-york-9-11-and-redemption-songs.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/new-york-9-11-and-redemption-songs.html Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:58:51 +0000 New York, 16 September 2015 Today I went to the World Trade Center site in New York. When you arrive, straight out of the subway, you come upon the new "Liberty Tower". It's a magnificent tower, but… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/bachata-classes-dfbaila-elizabeth-juan.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/bachata-classes-dfbaila-elizabeth-juan.html Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:06:25 +0000 Classes taken in Mexico City, March 2015 Elizabeth and Juan, who founded DF Baila , gave me a run of private "bachata dominicana" classes. I'd been wanting to learn the style for a while and they… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/cuba-practical-cuba.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/cuba-practical-cuba.html Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:42:09 +0000 2 September 2015 I've had several requests for advice or information about Cuba lately. So I thought it might be worth writing a post about it. I'd encourage those who have already visited this… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/new-york-ailey-performance-workshop.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/new-york-ailey-performance-workshop.html Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:54:31 +0000 New York, 24 August 2015 I signed up for a "performance workshop" at Alvin Ailey . The idea is to learn a choreography over 7 sessions of 2 hours, and then perform it in the theatre at the dance… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/afro-cuban-classes-lesvia-chichi.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/afro-cuban-classes-lesvia-chichi.html Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:08:29 +0000 Classes taken in Santiago de Cuba, February 2015 Before I left, several friends had warned me to be careful about signing up for classes in Cuba — there were plenty of good teachers, they said, but a… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/afro-cuban-classes-manolo-vasquez.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/afro-cuban-classes-manolo-vasquez.html Thu, 20 Aug 2015 23:00:28 +0000 Classes taken in Mexico City, March 2015 I was lucky enough to already have friends in Mexico City before the trip. Whenever I asked them which classes to take in their city, one name came back every… https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/new-york-empathy-or-self-absorption.html https://www.budgetfury.com/blog/new-york-empathy-or-self-absorption.html Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:43:04 +0000 New York, 24 July A tragic event happened last week that affected the New York salsa community deeply. A young woman from the city, 21 years old, died in a car accident in Argentina. She was an…