snapshot from el Rastro de Madrid

Madrid's famous open air flea market, El Rastro, takes place every Sunday just south of the La Latina metro station. It's like every street fair/flea market/antique store you've ever visited, but bigger. Much, much, much, much bigger. One might even call it enormous. El Rastro is a dream for people who like hunting for miscellania and a nightmare for people who don't like skin to skin contact with randoms, so I felt pretty conflicted about the whole thing.