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El Manzanares es un río del centro de España, afluente por la derecha del Jarama, que, a su vez, es tributario del Tajo. Este río, que discurre íntegramente por la Comunidad de Madrid, nace en la Sierra de Guadarrama, en el Ventisquero de la Condesa —la ladera meridional de la Cuerda Larga, cerca de la Bola del Mundo—, y pasa por Madrid. Desemboca en el término municipal de Rivas-Vaciamadrid, después de un recorrido de 92 km.
El río acoge diferentes ecosistemas y atraviesa zonas de gran valor medioambiental, que han recibido diferentes niveles de protección. Su cuenca alta, desde su nacimiento hasta el Monte de El Pardo (incluyendo La Pedriza), constituye el Parque Regional de la Cuenca Alta del Manzanares, con una superficie de 52.796 hectáreas. Su curso bajo también se encuentra protegido, dentro del Parque Regional del Sureste. En términos generales, puede afirmarse que el único tramo del río que no se encuentra protegido es el que discurre por el casco urbano de Madrid.
El Manzanares tiene su nacimiento en el Ventisquero de la Condesa, una zona de 2.010 m de altitud, ubicada en la vertiente sur de la Cuerda Larga y presidida por los picos de la Bola del Mundo (2.265 m) y el Cerro de Valdemartín (2.280 m). Su fuente está formada por diferentes manantiales y neveros o ventisqueros, acumulaciones de nieve que se mantienen hasta bien entrada la primavera. Se encuentra en el término de Manzanares el Real, municipio del que el río toma su nombre y al que se dirige después de descender por La Pedriza, un paraje de formaciones graníticas declarado Reserva de la Biosfera.
En su primer tramo, el río fluye en sentido noroeste-sureste y discurre sobre un cauce estrecho y superficial, flanqueado por berrocales. Cuando alcanza los 1.300 m de altitud toma rumbo este, pero enseguida recupera la dirección sureste, poco antes de entrar en la Garganta Camorza. En este punto vuelve a encajonarse entre formaciones rocosas de grandes proporciones, labrando sobre la piedra numerosas pozas y hoyas, que salva mediante cascadas y charcas. Toma a continuación dirección este y, cuando alcanza la zona conocida como El Tranco, gira hacia el sur. Antes de entrar en el casco urbano de Manzanares el Real, deja a la derecha la ermita de la Peña Sacra y atraviesa el Molino de Manzanares.2 Todo este tramo transcurre por el fondo de la Garganta del Manzanares.
Cruza el pueblo de Manzanares el Real, donde bordea el castillo de los Mendoza, uno de los principales monumentos con los que se encuentra en su recorrido. A sus pies es retenido por el embalse de Santillana, que se construyó en 1907 para la producción de energía eléctrica, si bien las instalaciones primitivas fueron sustituidas en 1971 y reconvertidas para el suministro de agua potable.
El río toma después rumbo sur, camino del término municipal de Colmenar Viejo, donde todavía se sigue comportando como un río de montaña. En la citada localidad, se conservan antiguos puentes, batanes y molinos, construidos para el aprovechamiento hidráulico del río, así como diferentes instalaciones del Canal de Santillana, iniciado en 1898.3 Destacan los puentes del Batán y del Grajal, ambos de origen medieval.
El río cruza el Monte de El Pardo, donde amplía su valle, un espacio protegido que pertenece al municipio de Madrid. Aquí surte de aguas al embalse de El Pardo, que se construyó para regular las presas de canalización del río, a su paso por la capital. El Manzanares atraviesa, en este punto, zonas de encinar denso y adehesado, en lo que constituye uno de los bosques mediterráneos mejor conservados de Europa, y sirve de corredor biológico a las numerosas especies piscícolas, de mamíferos, aves, reptiles y anfibios, algunas de ellas protegidas por la Comunidad de Madrid, que allí habitan. Son numerosos los remansos en esta zona.
El Manzanares atraviesa después el pueblo de El Pardo, integrado en el término municipal de Madrid, donde deja a la izquierda el Palacio Real de esta localidad. Posteriormente forma un estanque, denominado Playa de Madrid, utilizado antiguamente como zona de baño. Pasa después junto a las áreas recreativas y deportivas de Somontes y Puerta de Hierro y bordea el Hipódromo de La Zarzuela.
Se encamina hacia la Puerta de Hierro, que antiguamente marcaba la linde entre Madrid y El Pardo; cruza la carretera de La Coruña (A-6) y, a partir del Puente de los Franceses, entra en el casco urbano de Madrid. Surca la ciudad canalizado, sorteando diferentes presas que regulan sus aguas para garantizar un flujo constante y permitir ciertos usos recreativos, caso del embarcadero del Puente de Segovia.
A su paso por la ciudad, el Manzanares deja a su derecha la zona suroeste de la misma (Casa de Campo, Latina, Carabanchel, Usera y Villaverde) y a su izquierda el resto, incluyendo la zona centro. El caudal del río se incrementa significativamente, como consecuencia de los vertidos de la capital, previamente depurados a través de un sistema de ciclo integral del agua.
A lo largo del término de Madrid, el río cruza algunos puentes monumentales. El Puente de los Franceses, construido en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, cobró una importancia crucial durante la Guerra Civil. Más abajo se encuentra con el Puente de la Reina Victoria (1908-1909), que presenta ciertos aires modernistas, y el Puente del Rey (1816). Después de orillar la Ermita de la Virgen del Puerto, se topa con el Puente de Segovia, el más antiguo de la capital, atribuido a Juan de Herrera, del siglo XVI.
Pasa al lado del Estadio Vicente Calderón (conocido también como Estadio del Manzanares), del Club Atlético de Madrid, y después se dirige hacia el Puente de Toledo. Obra de Pedro de Ribera, fue construido en el siglo XVII entre mofas de vecinos e intelectuales («mucho puente para tan escaso río»).
En el resto de su travesía por el casco urbano de Madrid cruza varios puentes más que datan del siglo XX, entre los cuales están el Puente de Praga y el Puente de Andalucía o de la Princesa.
Hasta el año 2007, el río atravesaba Madrid pegado, en sus dos márgenes, a la autopista Calle 30 —antes M-30—. El soterramiento de esta vía, promovido por el alcalde Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, ha supuesto la recuperación de sus riberas.
El río deja Madrid por su extremo sur (donde bordea un parque ribereño, conocido como el Parque Lineal del Manzanares), tras un recorrido de 30 km por su término municipal, esto es, la tercera parte de su longitud total. En este punto vira hacia el este, cruzando la pedanía de Perales del Río, perteneciente a Getafe, donde forma diferentes vegas.
Se encamina después hacia Rivas-Vaciamadrid. En este término, discurre junto a los cantiles y cortados de La Marañosa, prácticamente en paralelo con el río Jarama, al que finalmente tributa, cerca de la Presa del Rey.
El curso bajo del río se encuentra protegido dentro del Parque Regional de los cursos bajos de los ríos Manzanares y Jarama, más conocido como Parque Regional del Sureste, creado en 1993. Este espacio natural, caracterizado por la abundancia de materiales yesíferos y calizas, incluye zonas de alto valor ecológico, paleontológico y arqueológico.
En su curso alto, el Manzanares recibe a numerosos arroyos y riachuelos. El primero que vierte sus aguas en el río es el arroyo de Valdeartín, en el término de Manzanares el Real. Sin abandonar este municipio, posteriormente se le une el arroyo de Simón de los Chorros, a 1.300 metros de altura, que, a su vez, recibe al arroyo de La Mata. Cien metros de altitud más abajo, le tributa el arroyo de Los Hoyos de la Sierra, llamado antiguamente el arroyo del Cuervo, que recoge, a su vez, las aguas de los arroyos de La Covacha y El Chivato. Más adelante, confluyen los arroyos de La Garganta y de La Majadilla. A la altura del embalse de Santillana, se encuentra con el río Samburiel, uno de sus principales afluentes, regulado en el embalse de Navacerrada. También es tributario el Arroyo Mediano, que proviene del término de Soto del Real.
En su curso medio, la lista de afluentes es también numerosa. Procedentes de la Sierra del Hoyo de Manzanares, llegan los arroyos de Manina y Trofa, que desembocan en el río a la altura del Monte de El Pardo, en el término de Madrid. Dentro de este paraje también vierten sus aguas los arroyos de La Nava, de Tejada y de La Zarzuela. En lo que respecta al casco urbano de la ciudad, el Manzanares recibe a los arroyos (actualmente canalizados o soterrados) de Meaques, de Abroñigal y de Butarque, que nacen en montes bajos.
El afluente más importante con el que el Manzanares se encuentra en su curso bajo es el arroyo Culebro, corriente de unos 28 km de longitud, que discurre por Leganés, Fuenlabrada, Pinto y Getafe y que desemboca en este último municipio.
El río Manzanares, a pesar de su escasa relevancia geográfica, ha tenido una gran importancia histórica, fruto de su estrecha relación con Madrid, la capital de España. De hecho, la ciudad surge como una fortaleza musulmana en el siglo IX, para defender el camino fluvial existente junto al río, amenazado por el avance de los reinos cristianos, durante la Reconquista.
Mucho antes, en la Prehistoria, el río había acogido una intensa actividad humana, no sólo en el actual término de Madrid, sino también en otros puntos de su curso. Existen yacimientos arqueológicos que evidencian la presencia de pobladores en sus terrazas desde la época paleolítica.
En la Edad Media, se articuló en torno a su cuenca alta el Real de Manzanares, un extenso e influyente señorío bajo el control de la Casa de Mendoza, que fue objeto de disputa por parte de los concejos de Madrid y Segovia.
En el siglo XX, el Manzanares fue una importante línea defensiva de Madrid durante la Guerra Civil.
El río también ha sido un tema literario recurrente para poetas, novelistas y periodistas. Ha protagonizado numerosos poemas, novelas, ensayos y artículos, bien como objeto de burla (caso de la mayor parte de los grandes literatos del Siglo de Oro), bien con aires aduladores (como Ramón Gómez de la Serna).
Asimismo, el río ha servido de inspiración a pintores. Es el caso de algunos de los cuadros más conocidos de Francisco de Goya (La pradera de San Isidro, Baile a orillas del Manzanares, La merienda), en los que se muestra a los habitantes de Madrid con indumentaria tradicional en actividades tales como juegos, romerías o verbenas en las márgenes del río. El pintor aragonés vivió desde 1819 en la Quinta del Sordo, finca situada a orillas del Manzanares.
A finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, Aureliano de Beruete pintó las riberas del río en algunos de sus lienzos (Orillas del Manzanares, Lavaderos del Manzanares, El Manzanares bajo el Puente de los Franceses).
La mayor parte de los dibujos y grabados antiguos de Madrid reflejan la ciudad desde su extremo occidental, con el Manzanares en primer plano. En algunos de ellos, el río aparece sobredimensionado: se plasma una corriente de gran caudal, en la que aparecen incluso islas y embarcaciones que surcan su curso.
En el terreno de la fotografía, han sido varios los artistas que han plasmado el río. Uno de los más relevantes es Alfonso Sánchez García, más conocido como Alfonso, autor, entre otras obras, de la fotografía Lavaderos del Manzanares.
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A quick visit to see my friend Rich, and I got a couple of funny/cute pictures with his puppy George.
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With an impending weekend away in Newcastle looming, it was time to get to the salon and have my hair done.
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Gaaaah, New York City!! I want to upload them all, but I will be patient. I had sooo much fun yesterday. This photo I took right outside of Central Park, near 5th Avenue, and 66th.The Bokeh people, are my daughter and my friend Meggy and my sister Natalie. I wish I had lowered my Iso and shutter speed, to really convey how fast those pinwheels were spinning. It was a windy day yesterday!!
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Gemma came up again for 2 weeks this time - although there was very little chance to get glammed up and go out, what with everywhere closed.
So, we made the best of our one opportunity, got out Christmas glam on and went to do the big Christmas shop at Tesco. We slayed it! :-)
Afterwards we stopped off to see some beautiful Christmas lights down a terrace. Absolutley fantastic - what a community effort!
Ready to go out - Gemma was still getting ready at this point.
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So lately my life has been so full of goodbyes and see you laters, because I'm going back to England on Friday, but today something exciting and promising for my future happened! So here I am, smiling about it.
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Leeds First Friday night was one of the most sociable events I have ever been to!
There are always loads of people there, and so it is almost impossible to meet everyone you've arranged to. Especially given it is spread around multiple venues. But somehow I managed to see everyone I meant to, and even a good few more I wasn't expecting to see! A brill night, really enjoyable start to Pride weekend.
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A couple of funny photos from when I went round for a visit with my dear friend Rich and his gorgeous dog George. :-)
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Experiencing these stations was what most made me realise that there might actually be something to this BRT-thing after all:
And another flickr user's photo (awesome capture): www.flickr.com/photos/doctorlo/2275173783/
Here are links to some short videos showing how the stations work:
Go to 0:52 on this one (actually a different system, but identical station style)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hncSYjBQBIM&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA4IR7PvO6I
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjP_GTnjEKI
The stations really frame the experience and provide numerous other services that improve the speed, capacity and comfort of the system as well as show a significant commitment/permanence by the local government/transit agency - like tracks they are not apt to be moved anytime soon.
The transmilenio is a BRT (for bus rapid transit).. like a cross between a metro and the express B-Line buses of Vancouver. Another way to put it (for those who don't know Vancouver) would be like a surface metro - enclosed stations and all- that uses articulated buses instead of trains, and isolated lanes instead of track. Like skytrain, the station platform sits in between each direction of line.. but for TransMilenio, lanes. In this case, forming the long part of the "T" where the top is a crosswalk - right in the centre of the road (not on some distant, time-consuming pull-out)
The stations are well ... they feel like the Expo line skytrain, but on the ground. There is ramp (wheelchair friendly) to go up to the bus-level platform, and one passes through automated fare collection (smart card). You can see a bit here: farm1.static.flickr.com/19/107068591_e6b678aa23_o.jpg Once inside, the entire station is all fare-paid zone, and buses on different routes each have a platform segment. This means that once one gets in the system (like a metro) you could actually ride all day. Each platform/bay has 3 wide sets of sliding glass doors that automatically open as the bus slides into position.
The 3 sets of wide glass doors of the station whisk open in unision with their bus counterparts (also wide) and riders step in and out (like skytrain, subway, or metro). There are no line ups. - People/wheelchairs/strollers simply step/roll in.. not up.. Wheelchairs and strollers are restricted to the front set of doors, everyone else uses the other two sets. . People transferring to another route just walk to the other bay/platform and get on that bus when it arrives without needing to pay again or queue for one door.
This system is far more cost-effective system than subsurface rail (most ROWs were expropriated from existing car lanes - transit priority over car), and there are no dangerous rails on the surface (and no fences like the around skytrain).
Also unlike something like the Silverline in Boston (which has a painfully slow transition to underground, and runs in mixed traffic, and generally oscillates between bus and wannabe metro), TransMilenio is completely consistent and uniform in what it has across the network.
The buses have their own median lanes, usually 2 in *each* direction. See how it looks here?: www.flickr.com/photos/99887786@N00/2468594299/ I would guess about 65% of the network is like this, and the remaining stations have passing lanes. This was a politically gutsy move to make, as the lanes the buses use were expropriated from car traffic. It basically creates additional congestion for cars, while allowing the cleaner more space-efficient public transit to go much much faster. A clear priority for public transit over car use. It is a carrot & stick. carrot to use transit becuase it is faster, stick against driving because it gets slower. In addition this is a major cost-saving measure, becuase existing roadways are used and no new ones are constructed (unlike other BRTs elswhere)
It also made construction of the busways incredible simple and fast. Nearly 100 kms of dedicated lines were in place within a matter of a few years.
My favourite resource for Bus Rapid Transit systems is the ITDPs BRT Planning Guide - in particular The Annex Section has system comparisons across BRT Systems all over the world. It is clear here how feature-rich TransMilenio is compared to lacklustre cousins elsewhere. itdp.pmhclients.com/index.php/microsite/brt_planning_guid...
Another good one: The US Transportation Research Board has a paper discussing applicability of the Transmilenio in the US - an identified challenge is that there could be little public support since most people would initially associate it with "the bus" rather than it's own mode.
TransMilenio has immense capacity - moving more people than many heavy-rail subway systems - at peak hours the busiest single line moves 45,000 people per direction. In some ways the system is victim of it's own success - some residents have nicknamed it TransMi-lleno (full), for being famously full.
Please see the next photo - there is more info there about TransMilenio.
Another informative video is this one of the Rea Vaya - a South African BRT system heavily modelled after TransMilenio. The station interior pan starts at 3:37
www.youtube.com/watch?v=85xXs7JTt5k and www.reavaya.org.za/
And last an electric trolleybus BRT in Venezuela: www.insideyorks.co.uk/tbus/xmd1.jpg
Electric trolley-bus BRT in Venezuela: www.flickr.com/photos/venex/sets/72157600189865830/
I forgot to fill the birdhouses, so the cardinal was looking everywhere. Don't worry I fed him after I got this shot.
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I know that I left everyone hanging and the new pipe was definitely installed in the house but not without incident! At the same time that the pipe was being installed the sheetrock in the attached garage decided that it had been in place long enough and a portion of it decided collapse! Fortunately it landed on the canoes and did fall on the cars. It has been repaired as well! My refrigerator had been repaired numerous times and so they decided to replace it for free under warranty!! Only with they would do the same with my NEW washer with doesn't work properly!
Those were the least of my problems as Georgia once again has some medical issues!! She was diagnosed the first time with Cerebral Fourth Nerve Palsy that causes her to have double vision and made here very disoriented and nauseous! We left the hospital and returned home after the first stay only to return a couple of days later with some stroke-like symptoms in her left arm and hand! After a barrage of tests there were no conclusions as to what caused the symptoms, but both issues have cleared up and she is once again doing splendidly!! I still have some things to take care of and so it will likely be next week before I become involved again!!
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November was lockdown number 2 so there was not much happening at all this month. Dressed nights in were about all I could muster.
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So it was Hallowe'en, time to goth up a bit. Been a while since I got my goth on!
We had a great night! We went to Cognac for amazing French cuisine again, then on to a different local pub who were having a socially distanced Hallowe'en night - the Halfway House. We loved it there - the atmosphere was nice and friendly and welcoming and it was like a traditional local pub rather than a nightclub/bar. We will definitely be going back there regularly, once pubs are back open!
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Leeds Pride weekend. Wow. After a far too long 3 year wait since the last one, we had been building up to this!
For me, Leeds Pride weekend is the highlight of the year. And this year it certainly didn't disappoint!
Saturday night was quite low-key because we were all preparing for the parade on the Sunday. But a group of us went to the Hifi club for our usual Saturday night comedy and for a drink in Queens Court afterwards.
At the Hifi club waiting for the comedy to start. L-R Jenny, Sarah, me and Jen.
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January LFF - I didn't know it at the time, but this was my last Leeds First Friday for a few months. I had some health issues which kept me away in February and March, and then had my surgery, so I won't be making it back to Leeds until June.
Made the most of it though. Starting at the Viaduct, we went on to Baracao then on to the Bridge, where I did 2 - yes, 2! - karaoke tunes. Mika - Grace Kelly, then Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better. I had a great time!
We finished the night off at The End.
In Baracoa.
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Our annual September trip to Newcastle, our favourite city.
What a very very social night we had on Friday!
Some of our friends were in town for a wedding so we met up with them on the Friday night in The Yard. We also met p with Gemma's Brother Graham, his Husband Bruce, and their friends Jon and Jimmy who were all over from Florida.
Previously we had met them in London but this time they had travelled al the way from London by train to come and meet up with us in Newcastle!
We first met up with them in the Yard, along with Jennifer, Sarah and Jack. Great to meet Jack for the first time in person.
Then we went for an amazing pizza with the Florida guys at Fuochi Pizza Experience.
After that Gemma and I headed to Rusty's Showbar where we saw some great drag, and met some more lovely people.
It was a cracking night!
Ready to head out.