A week of work and pleasure. In the latter category were my morning walks with Mochi, lunch with Eri in a restaurant near the beach at Urbanova, and the monthly meeting of our book club. And of course cycling.
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I start with two sky images. First, some fluffy clouds seen while cycling in the village of Verdegás:
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Looking up at the cathedral tower in the centre of Alicante:
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A striking mural in the centre, on the wall of a sports bar, Messi and Neymar kissing:
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Looking into a sports bar:
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On Monday Eri and I went for one of our regular lunches, this time choosing a restaurant called Capricho de Raquel, on the beach just 10 minutes from the office. While we were talking and waiting for our food, I took advantage of the range of Eri’s expressions:
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Afterwards, we went for a short walk on the beach promenade before driving back to the office:
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I walked Mochi a couple of mornings:
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A small church down the street from our house, at dawn:
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A construction site, embellished:
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Our walks often end at the local bakery where I buy a still warm baguette for breakfast. Mochi is not allowed inside, so I tie him to a post just outside the entrance:
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Later in the week, we had our monthly meeting of the WeRead book club. The book of February had been selected by me, “The Forbidden Notebook” by Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Céspedes, a fantastic piece of literature describing the life of an Italian woman in the immediate post-war years. Per tradition, we photographed the books in the versions present at the meeting, in this case English, Spanish and German (we have no Italians among us, so nobody brought the original Italian version):
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Eri and Christine in conversation, always a good subject for my camera:
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Our Danish colleague Kirsten is a new member of the book club:
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I finish with a few images from Saturday’s ride to Busot. I often stop for a break in this little corner, adorned by an amusing mural and a sculpture representing the nearby Canelobre caves:
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January/February is citrus season, and lemons and oranges are everywhere:
