I spent a couple of days in Madrid with my son last week. The cultural
highlight was a visit to the Prado, but no pictures from there. Instead, here
is a gallery, mostly from the El Rastro and Lavapies neighbourhoods. El Rastro
is the site of a large street market every Sunday and holiday, but in
mid-August, when half of Madrid's population is on the coast or in the
countryside, it was not particularly crowded. Lavapies is a low-income,
immigrant neighbourhood, probably made notorious by the fact that the bombers
who carried out the terrorist attacks on Madrid trains in 2004 lived there. But
the neighbourhood is interesting, not least because of the ethnic mix.
Twenty-three pictures are here:
http://www.frozenlight.eu/madrid_082013/
We did go by the traditional touristy places like Plaza Mayor as well, but I
had no pictures to take there.
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
YNWA
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