Fun Things You See in the Madrid City Center

If you take a trip to the center of Old Madrid, and walk around the plazas on a Friday or Saturday evening, you see all kinds of street performers. Some of them are very interesting, for example---


This two-person act has a man on the bottom casually holding a pole, while the man above him is suspended in mid air:

  

This mime portrays a newspaper man reading his newspaper:

This quartet was playing some very nice Mozart:

When Scott first saw this figure, he thought it was another street mime. No. It was a cast-iron statue of a street sweeper:

We also see various cartoon characters. Beverly posed for a photo with Elmo:

The Madrid City Center is an exciting place!

(In case you are wondering, we tipped all of these performers, except the street sweeper.)