{"id":1136,"date":"2014-02-11T08:27:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T07:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1136"},"modified":"2014-02-11T08:27:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T07:27:22","slug":"week-06-showing-friends-around-alicante","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1136","title":{"rendered":"Week 06: showing friends around Alicante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I did not travel anywhere. On the contrary, I had friends from Denmark visiting, so during the weekend I was a tour guide in my own city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6_1<\/strong><br \/>\nA sight I sometimes see when cycling through El Campello. A herder is setting out with his flock to go to a pasture:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_1.jpg\" alt=\"_1010572\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_2<\/strong><br \/>\nSeen during the morning dog walk. Some small child is unhappy this morning, but hopefully all be well later in the day:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_2.jpg\" alt=\"L1010410\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_3<\/strong><br \/>\nWinter means dramatic clouds and light from time to time, like in this view of Alicante from my office:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_3.jpg\" alt=\"L1010413\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_4<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Thursday I went for lunch at Capricho de Raquel, a favourite restaurant on the beach in Urbanova. Just as we were arriving at the restaurant, fog rolled in from the sea:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_4.jpg\" alt=\"L1010421\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_5<\/strong><br \/>\nAbout 1 1\/2 hour later, the fog has disappeared as quickly as it had appeared:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_5.jpg\" alt=\"L1010430\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_6<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Friday afternoon, my childhood friend Beata arrived from Copenhagen, with her partner Ricardo and their two children, Astor and Natalia. The children insisted on getting into our pool even though it was only about 17-18C:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_6.jpg\" alt=\"L1010443\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_7<\/strong><br \/>\nAstor is clearly the braver of the two:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_7.jpg\" alt=\"L1010444\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_8<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Saturday, we went for a walk around Alicante. Ricardo is a freelance photographer, and Astor wants to imitate his dad, as 10-year old boys often do:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_8.jpg\" alt=\"L1010451\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_9<\/strong><br \/>\nOld watch store sign in the barrio:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_9.jpg\" alt=\"L1010452\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_10<\/strong><br \/>\nA defunct bakery:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_10.jpg\" alt=\"L1010454\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The last three images from our walk have a common theme: women with smartphones, but in different situations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6_11<\/strong><br \/>\nWaiting for someone outside the city hall of Alicante:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_11.jpg\" alt=\"L1010453\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_12<\/strong><br \/>\nTexting someone outside a restaurant:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_12.jpg\" alt=\"L1010458\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6_13<\/strong><br \/>\nH&#038;M employee takes a smoke break:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2014\/6_13.jpg\" alt=\"L1010464\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I did not travel anywhere. On the contrary, I had friends from Denmark visiting, so during the weekend I was a tour guide in my own city. 6_1 A sight I sometimes see when cycling through El Campello. A herder is setting out with his flock to go to a pasture: 6_2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1102,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1136\/revisions\/1137"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}