\nOur house is on a golf course which besides golfers contains swans and other assorted poultry. The birds have the run of the place early in the morning, before the first golfers tee off, and in the evening and night. One morning the swan family came right up to our back fence:
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<\/p>\nAlternate 1<\/em> Alternate 2<\/em> Alternate 3<\/em> Alternate 4<\/em> Alternate 5<\/em> Alternate 6<\/em> Alternate 7<\/em> The rest of the pictures are from a visit to the Mercado Central on Saturday morning. Whenever we are going to do serious cooking during the weekend, a Saturday morning trip to the market is in order, since the meat, fish and vegetables on offer there are far better and cheaper than in the supermarkets. Plus, it is more photogenic!<\/p>\n Alternate 8<\/em> Alternate 9<\/em> Alternate 10<\/em> Alternate 11<\/em> Alternate 12<\/em> Most of my photography this week was in Perpignan, which I have in a separate gallery (www.frozenlight.eu\/perpignan). What is here are leftovers, then, from the rest of the week, here in Alicante. Main Our house is on a golf course which besides golfers contains swans and other assorted poultry. The birds have the run of […]<\/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\/157"}],"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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/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=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe alternates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
\nThe papa swan did not like me sticking my lens through the fence:
\n![\"8303901\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt1.jpg\")
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\nThis and the next picture was taken last Sunday, on the way to Perpignan. Since this was the last weekend of August, a lot of people were on their way home from vacation, including many Morrocans and Algerians who live in Spain, Italy or France and who take the ferries from the Spanish coast to their home countries. They are easy to spot–their cars are always the most heavily loaded ones, with large loads on the roof. This is a rest area north of Valencia:
\n![\"8313908\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt2.jpg\")
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\nAnother couple of loads get adjusted:
\n![\"8313906\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt3.jpg\")
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\nJumping to Thursday afternoon, a man reading the conservative newspaper La Raz\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b3n:
\n![\"9044004\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt4.jpg\")
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\nI might title this picture contrasting colours; that is what caught my eye, anyway:
\n![\"9044027\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt5.jpg\")
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\nA rare picture of me that is half-decent, taken by my wife. Maybe it is half-decent because I am drinking a mojito:
\n![\"9044006\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt6.jpg\")
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\nIn front of my office there is an area of bushes and shrubs which is home to a pack of stray cats, a common sight here in Spain. But these cats are relatively well off, because further down the hill are two hotels whose employees take care of them. Every morning the cats come to the back door of the Holiday Inn Express and wait for food:
\n![\"9054040\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt7.jpg\")
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\nTuna steaks:
\n![\"9064048\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt8.jpg\")
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\nThis time, some snake oil merchants (aka chiropractors) had set up shop and were busy finding faults with people’s spines:
\n![\"9064050\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt9.jpg\")
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\nThis stand has nice vegetables, but I go there mainly to buy fresh cilantro and mint. The cilantro is for my Indian food, and the mint is for my wife’s mojitos:
\n![\"9064056\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt10.jpg\")
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\nHere, they obviously want to attract people’s attention, and they succeeded with me:
\n![\"9064054\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt11.jpg\")
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\nIn general, I have noticed that the people selling veg are better looking than the fish- and meatmongers. I don’t know if there is some causal relationship at work:
\n![\"9064056\"](\"uploads\/2008\/36alt12.jpg\")
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