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Re: [OM] IMG: El Rastro & Lavapies, Madrid

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: El Rastro & Lavapies, Madrid
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:54:02 -0400
Gotta love that bartender. <g> Nice tour, though. Elements of the city I 
wouldn't expect to be on the normal tourist paths.

--Bob Whitmire
Registered Neanderthal

On Aug 21, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Nathan Wajsman 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/

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