[Leica] Nathan's PAD 31/7/2020: young madrileños and their dogs

[Don Dory]

Those greyhounds? look thin enough to be extremely interested in the
sandwich.   I wouldn't want to be a kidd on the hillside if this two were
let loose.

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 1:59 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Yesterday I started my summer break with a day trip to Madrid. This was my
> first trip away from Alicante since I returned from Croatia in early March,
> and my first use of any kind of public transport since then. In fact, I
> originally planned to drive, but in the end the convenience and speed of
> the train won out; the high-speed AVE train covers the 450 km to Madrid in
> about 2 hours 20 minutes, almost twice as fast as driving, and obviously
> less tiring. So I took a 7 a.m. train to Madrid, spent  a couple of hours
> in the Museo Reina Sofia looking at contemporary art, followed by a walk in
> the Parque de Buen Retiro, then a visit to the recently re-opened El Prado
> to re-visit some of my usual favourites from the past, such as Velázquez,
> Goya or Bosch. Then I walked to the Puerta del Sol square, which was much
> less crowded than on an average summer day, but then again, it was 40C
> (104F in US money) at that point, and hanging out on a square with no shade
> whatsoever was not an attractive proposition. So I walked down one of the
> main shopping streets that emanate from this square, and happened upon this
> group of young people and their dogs outside the Corte Inglés department
> store:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-xkhBJ2H/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-xkhBJ2H/A>
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> They were collecting money for animal rescue in one of the few places in
> Madrid that had sufficient footfall to make such efforts worthwhile. And
> the dogs certainly attracted attention and money:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-kBKv5c6/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-kBKv5c6/A>
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> Including from me. I emptied my pocket change into the jar held by the
> young woman on the left, and then got her to pose for a quick snap. The
> dogs were obviously more interested in the sandwich the other volunteer was
> unwrapping:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-ZFkJQdv/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-ZFkJQdv/A>
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> It was nice to be in the big city again. I walk around the totally
> deserted Plaza Mayor too, Madrid’s main tourist trap—except that this year
> there are no tourists and the locals don’t go there much. Many more pics to
> come.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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