There is something beautiful behind every corner in Madrid. See this beautiful, foliage-covered wall:
It just stands there, in Madrid’s downtown, while people around it hurry to work in the business sector of the city. And almost right next to it is this building:
Spain’s economy had been experiencing a very slight improvement, but any good news is welcome at this point.
Poor people, mostly Latin American immigrants, would congregate in front of this soup kitchen to be fed every day:
I hope things get better soon because I already found two separate newspapers of the openly fascist persuasion being sold at the newsstands. Unemployment and poverty are the best breeding ground ever for fascism, and Spain has not had a very good track record in this area. Even when its fascism was the weakest in Europe, the country somehow managed to end up with the longest fascist dictatorship of all.
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I amazed by your discoveries of Madrid. I lived there for a few months and felt sort of disappointed by the city. I find entertaining the way you sell it! I come of course from that other city of Spain…
Regarding fascism it does feel a bit like we’re back that point in history… It’s not quite the same, but there’s a funny smell in the air, the same symptoms, chess pieces move the same…
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“I amazed by your discoveries of Madrid. I lived there for a few months and felt sort of disappointed by the city. I find entertaining the way you sell it! I come of course from that other city of Spain…”
– I disliked Madrid the first 3 times I visited it, so now I decided I wouldn’t leave before getting to like it. 🙂
“Regarding fascism it does feel a bit like we’re back that point in history… It’s not quite the same, but there’s a funny smell in the air, the same symptoms, chess pieces move the same…”
– Yes, that is exactly how I felt, too.
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