Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]el rastro cafe which one do you want? el rastro music templo de debod ae my favorite images in the set thanks for posting ric On Aug 21, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information