{"id":1893,"date":"2017-06-07T12:12:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1893"},"modified":"2017-06-07T14:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:53:23","slug":"week-22-visiting-anne-marie-cycling-in-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1893","title":{"rendered":"Week 22: visiting Anne-Marie, cycling in the mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

The highlight of the week was an invitation to have lunch at the house of Anne-Marie, the retired colleague who featured in last week’s photos from the wine tasting. She and her husband live in a large house in the inland countryside, and they invited us for a rice (not paella, here in Alicante those distinctions are taken seriously; what we had was arr\u00c3\u00b3z meloso<\/em>, moister than paella). This was our first visit to her home.<\/p>\n

22_1<\/strong>
\nI start with three dog walk pictures. These little flowers growing on a street corner are a constant source of frustration. I have photographed them many times, but every time either the focus was off, or the dog pulled the leash just as I was taking the picture, or a gust of wind would move them. This time I did get an acceptable image:
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22_2<\/strong>
\nOne of “my” cats in the morning sunshine:
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22_3<\/strong>
\nAnd now waiting by the gate to the golf course, ready for me to deliver his food:
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22_4<\/strong>
\nOn Sunday morning, I was out cycling as usual, and this time I decided to explore parts of Jijona that I had not looked at before. Among them was this old monastery, Ermita de San Antonio:
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22_5<\/strong>
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22_6<\/strong>
\nThere is a good view of Jijona from the park surrounding the Ermita:
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22_7<\/strong>
\nOn the way out of Jijona, I stopped to photograph this rather eye-catching announcement of a wedding taking place the following weekend:
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22_8<\/strong>
\nAfter that bike ride and a shower, we drove to Anne-Marie’s house. We sat with a drink on her sunny terrace, surrounded by various members of her family, including various grandchildren. It was good to see Anne-Marie enjoying her life in retirement on her home turf:
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22_9<\/strong>
\nThen it was time to go to Anne-Marie’s den where we would have the meal:
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22_10<\/strong>
\nAnne-Marie’s son-in-law is an excellent rice chef, a very much appreciated ability in this part of Spain:
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22_11<\/strong>
\nSimmering:
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22_12<\/strong>
\nThe table is set:
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22_13<\/strong>
\nDoling out the goodies:
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22_14<\/strong>
\nA salad with artichokes, goat cheese, tomatoes and other good things accompanied the rice:
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22_15<\/strong>
\nOur contribution was my wife’s cheesecake:
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22_16<\/strong>
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22_17<\/strong>
\nA toast to finish a most pleasant afternoon:
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22_18<\/strong>
\nBack home, my late mother’s magic cactus has been going nuts recently:
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22_19<\/strong>
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22_20<\/strong>
\nDuring a lunchtime trip to the centre of the city during the week, I noticed this owner of a tobacco shop on Plaza Gabriel Mir\u00c3\u00b3. He usually sits on a chair in front of this shop, smoking a cigar, only entering the shop when customers arrive:
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22_21<\/strong>
\nThe remaining images are from my daily bicycle rides. One afternoon after work, I stopped to take this picture of Busot, which I thought looked particularly lovely that day with the hazy mountains in the background:
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22_22<\/strong>
\nOn Saturday, I climbed the Carrasqueta mountain pass. On the way to Jijona, I stopped to pee and once again saw this pastoral scene in the dry river bed below. On the left the motorway to Valencia is visible; this is very much two different worlds side by side:
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22_23<\/strong>
\nThe road to the Carrasqueta has some truly lovely curves. On this day there were many more cyclists than normal, and I soon realised that there was a race going on, since all of them had numbers and were going faster than me (but not all, which pleased me a lot given that most looked to be 15-20 years younger than me):
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22_24<\/strong>
\nAt the top, there was a veritable traffic jam of spectators:
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22_25<\/strong>
\nThis is a good place to photograph passing cyclists, as there is a spot to park, and the cyclists are obviously going relatively slowly as they reach the pass:
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22_26<\/strong>
\nI lingered for a few minutes, taking in the sights while eating my banana, and then I rode home:
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And that was another week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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