Bad Ideas in Madrid

Exploring the darkness under the Christmas lights

Ryan Frawley
Globetrotters
Published in
7 min readJan 2

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Moroccan soccer fans celebrating a World Cup victory in Madrid. Photo by author.

The day started strange and got stranger

Human flight remains a miracle, but it’s also been a dehumanizing ordeal for the past twenty years. In the past two years, it’s gotten worse. If a journey can be made in less than five hours, I’ll take the train.

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Ryan Frawley
Globetrotters

Novelist. Essayist. Former entomologist. Now a full-time writer exploring travel, art, philosophy, psychology, and science. www.ryanfrawley.com