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<p><em>The incredible interior of La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, 2018</em></p> |
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@ -467,3 +471,32 @@ place in society, or in nature, or in the universe, and thinking about how that |
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affects one's actions. Every society on earth has these spaces, though they go |
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by different names, and have lots of different decorations. Each one carries a |
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message about what that society has ascribed importance to. |
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## Madrid, Spain |
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Originally I hadn't planned on going to Madrid at all, but in Florence I met |
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someone who lived there and so decided to spend a couple nights hanging out. |
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Going on a tour of a city is one thing, but going with a local is something |
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completely different. We saw some of the things a tourist is supposed to see, |
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like the opera house, the palace, and whatever this building is: |
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descr="This Schweppes building is called the Edificio Carrión, and is famous for reasons. Madrid, 2018" |
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But more than that, I got to see what it was like to actually live in a city |
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like Madrid, as a normal person. A fancy tapas restaurant is too expensive |
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there, so we went to a local bar that did it more simply and cheaply. We also |
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ate kebab, which is the European equivalent of the corner mexican or chinese |
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joint in the states; a place with cheap, good food, open late, run by |
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immigrants. |
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Mostly, we walked around and talked. We talked about colonialism, and oppression |
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and guilt, and about the Spanish Civil War and fascism, and about Catalan and |
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its desire for independence, about capitalism, and the pain it causes, and about |
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tourism and gentrification, and about royalty and aristocracy, and about |
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language and culture. |
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I only spent one full day in Madrid, and afterwards took a bus, continuing |
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south, down to Córdoba. |
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