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Subject: [Leica] IMG: El Rastro & Lavapies, Madrid
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:25:58 +0530
References: <0093777B-88A1-424C-BA17-22CA978879CB@frozenlight.eu>

I see a good time was had by all.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:58 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.
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> Twenty-three pictures are here:
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/madrid_082013/
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> We did go by the traditional touristy places like Plaza Mayor as well, but 
> I had no pictures to take there.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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