If you want a tango in Buenos Aires, you need to know the steps that come before the dance at a neighborhood Milanga.

You've got this gorgeous woman sitting at a table and there's your tango dancer on the floor and he wants to dance with this beautiful woman.

But he's got to make the eye contact and she has to respond accordingly with the eyes and then they get up and do the dance.

Coming up, an American who spent a dozen years living in Buenos Aires shows us the ropes of the Argentine capital.

Plus, guides from Madrid tell us how to roll like a Spaniard where you work to live not the other way around.

You know Spanish people can be very efficient but sometimes they choose not to be.

We'll learn how taking time for plenty of relaxing breaks during the day and why they don't even think

about dinner until well after dark is all part of the natural rhythm of life in the

hot climate of Spain. And we are not lazy people, it's just we do things in a

different way, nothing more than that.

Viva Vida it's Travel with Rick Steeves.

Today on Travel with Rick Steeves we'll find out why Buenos Aires is one of the world's most popular

cities to visit.

And we'll check in with listeners who'd like to talk a little more about things they've heard

on the show in recent months.

Let's open the hour as we try to get in sync with the distinctly

Spanish way of enjoying life. For instance, the hours people keep in Spain can be a

real surprise for visitors who might be accustomed to eating an early supper and going to bed by 10. for and Federico Garcia Barroso.

Amigos, welcome.

Thank you.

Federico, you live in Madrid, to me you are sort of a quintessential Spaniard.

What is it about Spanish character that a traveler needs to understand to kind of

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