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Subject: [Leica] IMG: San Juan, Puerto Rico
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:24:55 -0600
References: <A9EDE874-7243-4302-A496-EB0867D5A4D7@frozenlight.eu>

I really enjoyed this set.  Your coverage of the incredible visible feast
surrounding the residents of San Juan is excellent.  As an irreverent
thought, Cuba could look like this with better governing.

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 1:16?PM Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I continue editing my hundreds of photos from the trip to Puerto Rico that
> just ended (I came home on Friday evening). The island is obviously a
> special place for me. My wife is from there, we were married there in 1983,
> so our children are half-Puerto Rican and identify with the island (as well
> as with Poland, Denmark and a bunch of other places). I have often said
> that if I were ever to move back to the US (not in the cards, purely
> hypothetical), Puerto Rico would be the place.
>
> We went there to spend time with my wife?s ageing parents but we also had
> plenty of time to explore in our rented car. I am organising my photos into
> a few galleries, the first of which I posted the other day, focusing on the
> Caribbean art I saw. Now I am sharing my photos from San Juan, the capital
> city. Most visitors stick to the Condado beach hotels and Old San Juan, but
> the city has a lot more to offer. Hence, a rather large gallery of 94
> photos, from Old San Juan, Trujillo Alto (where my sister-in-law lives),
> R?o Piedras (site of the main campus of the University of Puerto Rico which
> my wife attended), the cool neighbourhood Santurce with a nice square
> called La Placita lined with bars and restaurants, and my first visit to
> Pi?ones, a seaside area full of roadside bars and restaurants serving
> inexpensive and tasty foods.
>
> It?s all here:
>
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/San-Juan-January-2025
>
> And as always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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Don
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