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Subject: [Leica] IMG: El Rastro & Lavapies, Madrid
From: ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 08:44:00 -0400
References: <0093777B-88A1-424C-BA17-22CA978879CB@frozenlight.eu>

el rastro cafe
which one do you want?
el rastro music
templo de debod

ae my favorite images in the set

thanks for posting

ric




On Aug 21, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 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/
> 
> We did go by the traditional touristy places like Plaza Mayor as well, but 
> I had no pictures to take there.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> 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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> YNWA
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