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Subject: [Leica] IMG: El Rastro & Lavapies, Madrid
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 02:10:05 -0500
References: <0093777B-88A1-424C-BA17-22CA978879CB@frozenlight.eu>

Nice tour, Nathan.  I like the bartender!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu>
To: "lug Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera Discussion" 
<olympus at thomasclausen.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 1:28 AM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: El Rastro & Lavapies, Madrid


>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
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
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