\nI go to the Mercado Central almost every Saturday to buy food. Besides the fact that certain foods are better and cheaper than in the supermarkets, it is also a lot more interesting and photogenic. This woman (whom I have photographed before) has got to be the most attractive fishmonger around:
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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> Alternate 8<\/em> Friday night, I was on my own money, so I moved to a cheaper hotel near Place Ste-Catherine, one of the city’s best areas for bars and restaurants, just what is needed on a Friday evening.<\/p>\n Alternate 9<\/em> Alternate 10<\/em> Alternate 11<\/em> The pictures I show for this week form two main parts. The early part of the week was spent in Alicante, doing the usual things. On Thursday afternoon, I flew to Brussels to attend an important meeting at the EC Commission Friday. It was very good to be back in a city where I lived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":175,"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\/188"}],"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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions\/210"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe alternates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
\nAnd she can interact with her customers too:
\n![\"L1001860\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt1.jpg\")
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\nLots of signs like this all over the place. I think this plot of land will be for sale for quite a while:
\n![\"L1001867\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt2.jpg\")
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\nThe sun does not always shine here. Monday night looked like this in the centre of Alicante:
\n![\"L1001870\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt3.jpg\")
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\nBut by Tuesday afternoon things were back to normal:
\n![\"L1001893\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt4.jpg\")
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\nThursday I took a lunchtime flight to Madrid and then on to Brussels. Just because I am cooped up in a plane does not mean that I do not look for photo opportunities:
\n![\"L1001895\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt5.jpg\")
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\nFriday morning in Brussels. We are walking from our hotel to the Commission, through Parc Leopold:
\n![\"L1001910\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt6.jpg\")
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\nFriday afternoon. The meeting is over, and I am walking back to the hotel, crossing the courtyard of the European Parliament:
\n![\"L1001920\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt7.jpg\")
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\nView of Place du Luxembourg from the Parliament:
\n![\"L1001924\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt8.jpg\")
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\nI was in one of my favourite bars in Brussels, the Monk, just snapping randomly. There is both subject and photographer movement, but I still like it:
\n![\"L1001938\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt9.jpg\")
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\nLooking out onto the square:
\n![\"L1001941\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt10.jpg\")
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\nAnd finally, I was amused by the bartender’s T-shirt which says, “Do not feed the pickpockets”:
\n![\"L1001948\"](\"uploads\/2009\/5alt11.jpg\")
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