This is a photo the neighborhood drunk. (Notice how his head is quite literally in the clouds. What a beautiful day.) We have a lot in common. Neither of us work and we both spend our days wandering the streets of Madrid talking to strangers in our own incomprehensible gibberish. He has just finished a can of Diabrau. Dia is the name of the local Safeway equivalent, so Diabrau is like "Safeway-brew". The Spaniards are not known for their brewing history but they do enjoy a cold drink during the day. Since this is Friday, the young residents of Malasaña will be enjoying those cold drinks all night long as well and into the early light of the morning. At 6am the streets will be littered with empty cans (and empty packages of Cialis) and by 10:00, crews of street sweepers will have cleaned the entire neighborhood. It is quite an amazing system.
Another interesting aspect of this late night drinking is the role played by the local Chinese immigrants who will be standing on the street corners with individual cans of beer that they will be selling to passersby. Too lazy to go into any of the hundreds of bars around here? Never fear, you can buy one from the Chinese guy on the corner and not even stop walking.
-Gregory
About Me
- Madrid 2009
- We are spending the summer in Spain and hoping that this simple blog will keep our friends and family informed about our activities. Of course, if you want to follow this in chronological order, you have to start at the bottom of the blog. Also, by clicking on any of the blog photos you should be taken to a Flickr page with additional images of our trip.
good stuff Greg and fam! Testing the comment feature for John - Andy
ReplyDelete