Scene seen in the street….

Walking through the edge of Madrid’s Dos de Mayo area I noticed a man walking towards me, holding something vertical in his right hand.

My immediate reaction was that he was carrying the newish-to-Madrid  Urban Grail: a takeaway coffee.

Second thought was, where’s the nearest Starbucks.  Hmm, some distance from here, I mused.

Third (as he came closer) was, and he doesn’t look like a Starbucks type, he’s definitely from another category of the Madrid Menagerie (more on that another day).

Fourth was my wrinkled brow and overall bafflement, which may have been apparent because he smiled at me as we passed each other and I saw he was carrying…. a can of paint.