BARCELONA
Courtyard of St Anna Church (for an evening guitar concert) by Plaza Catalunya
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Dawn from hotel
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Market St Josep; Red Bull Gelato
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Market St Josep
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Las Ramblas
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Barceloneta; after 11 pm dinner; Plaza of St Miguel's
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Market St Josep
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Market St Josep
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Picasso Museum
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Tapas in Barrio Gotico
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Barrio Gotico
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MADRID - - - - - - - - - - - -
City Hall (Cibeles) Madrid
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Market St Miguel
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Off Puerta Del Sol
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Cafe by Hotel - We are just 40 years after end of military govt under Genl Francisco Franco. On a Madrid city tour on a red double decker bus, many large buildings described as "Destroyed during civil war...badly damaged during civil war..." of the 1930s. When Franco died in 1975, there were many plans for continuance of the far-right military government. But they quickly collapsed into a rapid turn to democracy, much like the longstanding, powerful, and highly repressive East German government rapidly fell into complete collapse in 1989.
Thus, such a brief moment in glimpsing an unassuming display of a gay pride cupcake in a long pastry case in a little side-street bakery is a big marker of social change. Gay Pride Weekend.
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