‘Almost’ because I didn’t even drink coffee prior to tango. I’ve always been entirely powered by tea, and still drink gallons of the stuff today. But while chemists may claim tea has half as much caffeine as coffee, it’s never had the slightest impact in terms of keeping me awake, while coffee very much does.

It was heading out to milongas late at night that had me start drinking coffee, and while that was initially purely for the medicinal effect, I found I did develop a taste for it …

Fast forward a little, and I’d bought a bean-to-cup coffee machine – and something once intended to keep me awake through a late-night milonga soon turned into a morning fixture.

That fixture later transformed into a morning ritual. I’ll let the video version of me explain …