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## Milan, Italy |
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My first impression of Milan was: "Wow, this place is sketchy". The streets were |
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dirty, old, and covered in graffiti. There were homeless everywhere, people |
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selling bootleg clothes in the street, scammers targeting tourists, and a |
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dirty, old, and covered in graffiti. There were homeless people everywhere, |
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people selling bootleg clothes in the street, scammers targeting tourists, and a |
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general disheveldness which Munich didn't have. But on the other side of that |
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coin, Milan is one of the fashion capitals of the world, and everywhere I looked |
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there were also beautiful people in expensive looking clothes, driving fancy |
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The hostel was small and quiet, overlooking both the Alhambra (the castle on a |
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hill, built by the Nasrids) and the rest of the city. The guys running it |
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were chill; the owner was Dutch, and the other was Scottish. The Scott had come |
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were chill; the owner was Dutch, and the other was Scottish. The Scot had come |
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to Granada to live and study flamenco, and it was obvious from how he spoke |
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about it that he was completely in love with the art and the people. On one |
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night they took me out to a "real gypsy bar", as they called it. |
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@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ living performing for tourists, but this bar is, according to my guides, where |
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they go after the shows to hang out. There was no music in the bar, but, as the |
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night went on, three or four cliques formed up naturally, each around a guitar |
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player and singer, with dancers circling around, the rest clapping to an |
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indecipherable rhythm. The Scott knew the names of a few of the people playing, |
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indecipherable rhythm. The Scot knew the names of a few of the people playing, |
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and told me that it was at gatherings like this that the musicians tried out new |
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things and pushed the art further. It was the "real" flamenco. |
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