{"id":1880,"date":"2017-05-21T07:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T06:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1880"},"modified":"2017-05-21T07:43:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T06:43:43","slug":"week-19-cycling-grilling-drinking-wine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1880","title":{"rendered":"Week 19: cycling, grilling, drinking wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week of cycling, work, eating and drinking.<\/p>\n

19_1<\/strong>
\nOn Monday (I had taken the day off since Tuesday was a holiday), I cycled to Relleu, a town I had not visited for a while. This is the road from Aigues to Relleu. It has some good climbs and very pretty landscapes:
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19_2<\/strong>
\nRelleu is a small, sleepy town. This is what passes for an event here–the municipality was trimming the trees along the main thoroughfare, and passers-by stopped to see and to chat with the workers:
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19_3<\/strong>
\nRelleu is 35 km from my house. I then go home via Orxeta, hitting the coastal road N332 between Benidorm and Villajoyosa; the last 25 km of the ride are just about getting home. But before that, in Orxeta, I looked at the Amadorio river, which is normally much lower than this. One can tell we have had a wet winter:
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19_4<\/strong>
\nLooking the other way, this is the Embalse del Amadorio<\/em>, an important reservoir for our area. Like the river feeding it, it was much fuller than it has been in recent years:
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19_5<\/strong>
\nIn the afternoon, I went to the Alcampo supermarket. I love their fish counter:
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19_6<\/strong>
\nA couple of pictures from home. One of the cats waiting for me near the gate of our subdivision, hoping that I am bringing food (I was):
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19_7<\/strong>
\nThe magic cactus, inherited from my mother in 2001, went nuts this week. This is Thursday evening:
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19_8<\/strong>
\nAnd this is Friday morning:
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19_9<\/strong>
\nOn Thursday night we had the monthly wine tasting at the office. The bodega is called Pio del Ramo, with a Dutch owner, Alain de Neef:
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19_10<\/strong>
\nThis evening, he had teamed up with the owner of a local wine bar\/tapas bar, a French chef called Emanuel, or simply Manu. Here Manu explains the tapas he had prepared to accompany the wine:
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19_11<\/strong>
\nAlain’s assistant serving the wine:
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19_12<\/strong>
\nAnne Marie, a retired executive secretary who has remained in Alicante, never misses a wine tasting:
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19_13<\/strong>
\nThe tapas looked and tasted good:
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19_14<\/strong>
\nFoie:
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19_15<\/strong>
\nOnce the tasting is finished, the presenters tend to relax and enjoy themselves for real–they are no longer at work at this point:
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19_16<\/strong>
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19_17<\/strong>
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19_18<\/strong>
\nA couple of images from the centre of Alicante, near the Mercado Central. A very local bar:
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19_19<\/strong>
\nOut of business:
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19_20<\/strong>
\nOn Saturday, our friend Assumpta and Elio invited us for a barbecue. We brought some wine from Mallorca which was quality-tested in the kitchen:
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19_21<\/strong>
\nElio’s son Luca was manning the BBQ. I suppose this is an integral part of every Argentine’s upbringing:
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19_22<\/strong>
\nEntra\u00c3\u00b1as<\/em> and ribs–the cuts used are not fancy but they come out sooo good:
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19_23<\/strong>
\nIt’s ready:
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19_24<\/strong>
\nThere were only five of us, but the quantity of meat could easily have fed double that number. No problem, it just meant lots of leftovers for the following days:
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19_25<\/strong>
\nLuca serving, Elio recording with his newly acquired toy:
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19_26<\/strong>
\nAt the table:
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