I'm having a day in Brussels tomorrow, which is about the most 21st century thing I've probably said. It is a much smaller world than it used to be.

The reason I am going is to watch a lucha libre show. Mexican lucha libre is the most unique of all the forms of professional wrestling. It transcends Mexican culture in a way that other forms do not. It's also a lot more performance, rather than accurately imitating a sporting contest. Both explain why this show is actually part of a month long Mexican culture week in Brussels in a theatre - the Cirque Royal - and other shows have been organised in venues, like the Lourve last year, where wrestling fans are not necessarily the target audience.

The card is stacked, with el Hijo del Santo, Negro Navarro, Solar I and Cassandro all performing. The middle two are thirty year veterans, maestros, still amazing to watch (actually, they have improved with age), and I figure it may be my only opportunity to see them live. Cassandro is a guy I come to know recently and is an incredible performer, but one who has rarely appeared on video. And Santo is the most famous luchadore alive today, a guy who embodies everything great about lucha both as an in-ring performer and as a part of the mythology that make it such a transcendent artform.

Exhausting a day as it may be to travel to Belgium and back in less than 18 hours, I am massively excited.