Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting tour Nathan. "Which one do you want?" made me smile. Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> To: "lug Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:28 AM Subject: [Leica] IMG: El Rastro & Lavapies, Madrid >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 >