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Alice-Azania Jarvis: 'It's only work, but downtownMiami beats the East End any day'

As I write I'm sitting on my bed in my hotel room in downtown Miami. Not what you expected? Me neither. But don't get too excited. Before you get any extravagant ideas about lottery wins or air miles, I should mention that I'm here working. And only for three days. And in meetings, mainly. Still, it beats camping out at an East End jumble sale doesn't it? It's Miami after all.

It's actually the first time I've travelled for work. Funnily enough, writing about how broke you are invites little in the way of luxury holidays in the Bahamas (NB if you happen to be a hotelier, please feel free to change that). On this particular occasion though, I'm in another guise – that of fitness writer. I'm here writing about a new dance exercise, zumba, which, incredibly, is only just coming to the UK (thanks to Virgin Active) despite the fact that everyone here does it all the time, or so it seems.

At any rate there'll be plenty of time for ruminations on the fitness benefits of zumba in other pages of this paper, no doubt. More of interest to my money saving was getting to meet the man behind the phenomenon, whose life story reads more like a Hollywood weepy than a cut-and-dry career path.

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