added madrid to mr-worldwide post

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src="mr-worldwide/sagrada-familia-inside-2018-2.jpg"
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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
affects one's actions. Every society on earth has these spaces, though they go
by different names, and have lots of different decorations. Each one carries a
message about what that society has ascribed importance to.
## Madrid, Spain
Originally I hadn't planned on going to Madrid at all, but in Florence I met
someone who lived there and so decided to spend a couple nights hanging out.
Going on a tour of a city is one thing, but going with a local is something
completely different. We saw some of the things a tourist is supposed to see,
like the opera house, the palace, and whatever this building is:
{% include image.html
src="mr-worldwide/madrid-2018.jpg"
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
like Madrid, as a normal person. A fancy tapas restaurant is too expensive
there, so we went to a local bar that did it more simply and cheaply. We also
ate kebab, which is the European equivalent of the corner mexican or chinese
joint in the states; a place with cheap, good food, open late, run by
immigrants.
Mostly, we walked around and talked. We talked about colonialism, and oppression
and guilt, and about the Spanish Civil War and fascism, and about Catalan and
its desire for independence, about capitalism, and the pain it causes, and about
tourism and gentrification, and about royalty and aristocracy, and about
language and culture.
I only spent one full day in Madrid, and afterwards took a bus, continuing
south, down to Córdoba.

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