The Dance of Passion

There was one more thing that we had to do and that was to find Pedro and Maria, and because they still travelled around the countryside this was going to take time, or so we thought, but as soon as news that we were looking for them spread, they heard of it and came to us.

Pedro just about hugged us to death when we eventually found him and he spread the word that we were back, so we had a very busy time dancing for him. He and Maria, she loved it that we called little Maria after her, have become such loving and devoted de facto grand parents that it was a real struggle to drag ourselves away from them to return to Australia.

We now share our time equally between our families in both Spain and Australia, I have my studies that allow us to travel to Spain on a regular basis, and get paid for it, and I also lecture in Spanish History at University, where I have used Estralita and the flamenco as a teaching resource to enhance the lecture experience. Estralita now has dance schools in both countries and we employ teachers that we have trained, just as Pedro and Maria trained us, in the real flamenco. They look after our Spanish operations when we aren't there.

In all of this we have never once lost our passion for the flamenco which we dance together as often as possible, and we have never lost, and will never lose our passion for each other.