{"id":1006,"date":"2013-06-19T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T12:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1006"},"modified":"2013-06-19T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T12:12:08","slug":"week-24-en-la-huerta-de-carmen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1006","title":{"rendered":"Week 24: en la huerta de Carmen"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a week where the best things happened during the weekends. Not that work was particularly bad this week, but let’s face it: cycling around the province of Alicante, taking pictures, and enjoying long, leisurely meals with friends in beautiful surroundings beats the office any time.<\/p>\n

24_1<\/strong>
\nOne of my bicycle rides this week took me along this road, between Busot and Jijona:
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24_2<\/strong>
\nJust before Jijona, there is a small obelisk at the edge of the road. I assume it is a memorial to a traffic accident victim, a common practice here in Spain:
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24_3<\/strong>
\nJijona on a Sunday is a really sleepy town:
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24_4<\/strong>
\nWe were invited to a birthday party of the guy in this picture. The cheesecake with strawberries in the foreground is one of my wife’s star creations:
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24_5<\/strong>
\nThe weather is nice now, and during the day the beaches are full. But in late afternoon or early evening, they are almost<\/strong> empty:
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24_6<\/strong>
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24_7<\/strong>
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24_8<\/strong>
\nBottle recycling container near the gym I go to. Someone thought they might as well recycle the beer hat too:
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24_9<\/strong>
\nMy kind of shopping, my kind of shop, conveniently located in the centre of Alicante, on my way home from work:
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Then, on Saturday, our good friends Carmen and Hilari\u00c3\u00b3n, had invited us to have lunch at their country house outside Almorad\u00c3\u00ad. The remaining images are from that wonderful day.<\/p>\n

24_10<\/strong>
\nThis is the overall setting–the house is set among orange and lemon trees:
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24_11<\/strong>
\nHilari\u00c3\u00b3n, the Master of the Paella:
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24_12<\/strong>
\nThe work of the master:
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24_13<\/strong>
\nCarmen and Hilari\u00c3\u00b3n are in the wine business, so their serving table is an old wine barrel:
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24_14<\/strong>
\nCarmen:
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24_15<\/strong>
\nMy colleague Javier with his son Ivo. Ivo was curious about the big yellow thing:
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24_16<\/strong>
\nThe taste test did not turn out favourably:
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24_17<\/strong>
\nAfter several hours of food and wine, it was time to go home…but not quite yet, because Hilari\u00c3\u00b3n wanted to make us an evening snack, a tortilla de patatas<\/em>:
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24_18<\/strong>
\nAnd so this was our evening snack. First, a salad made of ingredients bought at the Almorad\u00c3\u00ad outdoor market that morning:
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24_19<\/strong>
\nThen Hilari\u00c3\u00b3n’s tortilla and chorizo and embutidos<\/em> from the local butcher to finish a perfect day in the countryside:
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