{"id":151,"date":"2008-07-30T22:37:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2008-07-30T22:38:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T21:38:32","slug":"week-30-tiki-bar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=151","title":{"rendered":"Week 30: tiki bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another week of summer life in Alicante.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main<\/strong><br \/>\nAmong us photographers, we sometimes talk about the terrifying creature called SWMBO, or She Who Must Be Obeyed. She lurks around to see if we have acquired any new equipment, and woe be unto the husband if a new lens is discovered:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30.jpg\" alt=\"7203463\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe alternates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 1<\/em><br \/>\nAlicante airport is one of the busiest in Spain, with 95% of all travelers being sun seekers from Northern Europe. Some are already very tired upon arrival:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt1.jpg\" alt=\"7183436\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 2<\/em><br \/>\nOn Sunday I took a short motorcycle ride, and stopped to take some pictures of an abandoned farm house, a sight common in Spain:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt2.jpg\" alt=\"7203476\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 3<\/em><br \/>\nSpain has many laws on the books. However, actual compliance with those laws can be spotty. Here is a sign along a mountain road, promising huge fines for dumping garbage. Clearly, the threat is not very effective:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt3.jpg\" alt=\"7203482\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the images are from our beach. Regular visitors to the site may get bored with the beach and babes, but well, that is what life revolves around in July in Alicante&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 4<\/em><br \/>\nAlong our beach, some creative graffiti:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt4.jpg\" alt=\"7223503\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 5<\/em><br \/>\nThe beach bar we go to, on a moonlit night:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt5.jpg\" alt=\"7183453\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 6<\/em><br \/>\nA guest tries to hit on the bargirl:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt6.jpg\" alt=\"7183454\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 7<\/em><br \/>\nSame beach bar, now during the day, with a hard-working waitress:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt7.jpg\" alt=\"7223511\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 8<\/em><br \/>\nIt is not just us dirty old men who look at the girls. These two se\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b1oritas are clearly checking out the guys at the neighbouring &#8220;table&#8221;:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt8.jpg\" alt=\"7223508\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 9<\/em><br \/>\nWe go there to watch the sports, however:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt9.jpg\" alt=\"7203488\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 10<\/em><br \/>\nThis couple were not interested in the volleyball:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt10.jpg\" alt=\"7203486\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 11<\/em><br \/>\nThe bar is nice, but it is about 1.5 km walk from our house. Late at night at this time of year, it is still quite warm. So one evening, after arriving home from the bar, the family decided on a dip in the pool:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2008\/30alt11.jpg\" alt=\"7223532\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week of summer life in Alicante. Main Among us photographers, we sometimes talk about the terrifying creature called SWMBO, or She Who Must Be Obeyed. She lurks around to see if we have acquired any new equipment, and woe be unto the husband if a new lens is discovered: The alternates: Alternate 1 Alicante [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":121,"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\/151"}],"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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}