SAY SO

Stefan, on the phone this evening, tells me they are driving to Leipzig tonight with a Senior couplefrom Team Diabolo for the IDSF competitions, the 'Saxon dance Days'. They will dance in the International Open Latin on 14 August. There are 109 competitiors. Then they drive to Monaco, before taking the train to Stuttgart. Monaco, I asked? that's a lot of travelling. But he said Monaco, because that's what they call Munich in Italy.He was interested to learn for the first time that it was to München that they were in fact going. Ach, so. They will leave the Senior couple there and go by train to Stuttgart, for the biggest and best European competition of the year, the German Open. They will dance in the Rising Starts Latin on 16 August. They are no.103 of 340 competitors. Go 103! Then on the 17 August they start the Grand Slam Latin, no.175 of 383 competitors, many of whom have either one or two stars, exempting them from one or more early rounds. The competition foinishes on the 18 August. There are websites for both the Leipzig and the Stuttgart competitions. I'll certainly be keeping a close eye on the Stuttgart site: http://www.goc-stuttgart.de/index2.html & reporting on this blog at fairly regular intervals. One oddity: they are listed as dancing for England in Stuttgart, but in Leipzig for New Zealand. After the brown-maroon clothes Stefan wore recently amd that were disapproved of scathingly by one of his coaches, he's sold them. Zeudi is wearing a new fluorescent green dress. Stefan is considering a shirt to match. At least when their choreography takes them some distance apart, as in the Cha cha cha, they will easily find one another again.