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Subject: [Leica] Barcelona La Rambla, missing traditions...
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 08:00:59 +0100
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Yes, I like your vintage albums. My first visit to Barcelona was some time 
in the late 1990s, and I think the Rambla has become more touristy since 
then, although it already was to some degree back then.

Un abrazo,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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> On 23 Jan 2016, at 20:33, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography 
> at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> I don?t know if you have know La Rambla before the ?. say 1995, at that 
> time it was a wonderful Boulevard with local people, flowers and birds 
> sellers. The only swindlers at that time was ?los Trilleros?, the Bars was 
> not so expensive, at that time it was too more pickpockets than now, for 
> us, the Barcelona people who have known the old Rambla now is only 
> nostalgia. Myself in the 80?s and 90?s if I shall go everywhere if it was 
> possible I preferred go through La Rambla, today is absolutely the 
> contrary, I try to go in another way. Same thing with La Boqueria market, 
> every day there are less local sellers and the streets you mention around 
> La Rambla are changing too very fast? this is probably the sign of all the 
> cities of the World?.
> 
> I don?t know if you already know my vintage albums
> 
> La Rambla (Vintage)
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/lluisripoll/albums/72157646568324520>
> 
> La Boqueria (Vintage)
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/lluisripoll/albums/72157649652185812>
> 
> Un abrazo!
> Lluis
> 
> 
> 
>> El 23 gen 2016, a les 7:57, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> va 
>> escriure:
>> 
>> Nice. You can see similar tertulias in Alicante, on the Esplanada de 
>> Espa?a, a pedestrian street running along the waterfront in the centre. 
>> Even the fixed chairs are the same!
>> 
>> I love Barcelona, but I must confess that La Rambla is not my favourite 
>> place there. Too many tourist traps, too many Russian swindlers, just too 
>> tacky. However, one can dive into the side streets and 100 m away there 
>> is a different world.
>> 
>> Un abrazo,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws 
>> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ 
>> <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator 
>> <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
>> YNWA
>> 
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>>> On 18 Jan 2016, at 23:00, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography 
>>> at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> in my Blog
>>> 
>>> <https://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/barcelona-la-rambla-missing-traditions/>
>>> 
>>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome
>>> 
>>> Saludos cordiales
>>> Lluis
>>> 
>>> 
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