[Leica] Nathan's PAD 28/7/2021: a hot day in Madrid with my daughter

[Don Dory]

We had a similar experience in Seattle with video games at a museum near
the space needle.   I agree about the architecture.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 1:25 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Yesterday my daughter and I had to visit the Polish consulate in Madrid to
> renew her passport there—it has to be done in person because Polish
> passports include fingerprints in the biometric data. So we took a morning
> train to Madrid, did the business at the consulate, enjoyed the city for a
> few hours afterwards, and took an evening train back to Alicante. Six
> images to illustrate the various facets of the day (none from the Polish
> consulate since only Monica was allowed to enter, they are keeping the
> crowds down due to Covid, so only the person actually doing something there
> is allowed in).
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> After the consulate visit, we took the metro to an Ethiopian restaurant
> for lunch. The food was vegetarian, beautiful and delicious. This is a
> spread for two:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-tCp2zph/A
>
> After lunch, the temperature rose to the mid-30s, and there were not many
> people walking on the hot city streets. I did snap this cyclist, riding no
> hands while listening to music—not a practice I recommend but it made for a
> nice pic:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-cKKrVCw/A
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> We then made our way to the Retiro park, just included on UNESCO’s World
> Heritage list this week. It is indeed a wonderful park, fully on par with
> Central Park or Hyde park, perhaps even better than those. One of the
> impressive structures is the Palacio de Cristal (Glass Palace), used for
> art exhibitions, although being inside what is basically a greenhouse in
> 36-degree weather is not something you do for a long period:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Bz4sjrS/A
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> In weather like this, this is a better way to enjoy the park:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-stRJ6Jf/A
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> We finished the day with two exhibitions at the Caixa Forum, one of the
> several art museums in the immediate area near the Atocha station (from
> which we were taking the train back). I love the architecture of the
> building:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-zj6539N/A
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> One of the two exhibitions was about video games and their relationship to
> the “real” world, a subject that interests Monica a lot. And she was very
> amused to see a game that she played not many years ago exhibited in a
> museum:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-4SCSbX5/A
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> Then we took the train and in 2:15 h we were back in Alicante.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
>
> Alicante, Spain
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