{"id":2103,"date":"2018-02-04T20:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T19:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=2103"},"modified":"2018-02-04T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T19:47:04","slug":"week-05-rain-and-snow-in-alicante","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=2103","title":{"rendered":"Week 05: rain and snow in Alicante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet week with a lot of work, and some interesting weather at the beginning and the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5_1<\/strong><br \/>\nI start with food. The seafood counters at the local supermarkets continue to impress me, even though I have lived here for more than 10 years now. The selection, the reasonable prices, the quality&#8230;it is all there. And the little labels contain information on where the fish was caught (if wild) or farmed, when it was landed, etc. I eat fish almost every day, sometimes both lunch and dinner:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_1.jpg\" alt=\"R003247\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_2<\/strong><br \/>\nThen a couple of sushi pictures from our local sushi restaurant, where we treat ourselves to an occasional lunch on weekends. The quality is really quite good; surely  not up to Tokyo or San Francisco standards, but it has the advantage of being 5 minutes from our place:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_2.jpg\" alt=\"R003248\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_3<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_3.jpg\" alt=\"R003249\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_4<\/strong><br \/>\nThe week started with a day and night of hard rain. My lemon tree probably needed the water, and the lemons certainly looked pretty:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_4.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0404\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_5<\/strong><br \/>\nThe golf course acquired some additional water traps, albeit temporarily:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_5.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0407\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_6<\/strong><br \/>\nI took a drive along the beach to see the effects of the rain. The bike path was wet, to say the least:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_6.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0409\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_7<\/strong><br \/>\nThe surfers were out in force to take advantage of the wind:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_7.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_8<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_8.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0420\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_9<\/strong><br \/>\nI stopped at the beach near El Campello harbour. Not much action on the playground or the p\u00c3\u00a9tanque piste today:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_9.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0431\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_10<\/strong><br \/>\nBut the cats were there as usual. This one looks like he is giving me a fierce look, but in fact he was walking towards me to get petted:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_10.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0424\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_11<\/strong><br \/>\nWe live in a windy place. I think the harbour authorities need to invest in new flags (the three flags represent the European Union, Spain, and the Valencia Autonomous Region of which we are a part):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_11.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_12<\/strong><br \/>\nA few random photos taken while cycling. A &#8220;no entry&#8221; sign in the middle of nothing to enter:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_12.jpg\" alt=\"R003250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_13<\/strong><br \/>\nThe anarchists do not like our Prime Minister (translation: &#8220;fuck you, Rajoy&#8221;). I do not like him either, but I might express it differently:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_13.jpg\" alt=\"R003252\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_14<\/strong><br \/>\nA neighbourhood in Aig\u00c3\u00bces:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_14.jpg\" alt=\"R003257\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_15<\/strong><br \/>\nThe metal fence is ugly but the locals have tried to make it more attractive:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_15.jpg\" alt=\"R003258\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_16<\/strong><br \/>\nA grab shot from the centre of Alicante. Four mannequins with faces of space aliens:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_16.jpg\" alt=\"R003254\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_17<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring the latter part of the week, a winter storm hit most of Spain. Here in Alicante we did not get any snow or freezing weather, but on Friday, at the office, we were admiring the snow-covered mountains in the distance. On Saturday, I drove along the beach to take some pictures. The air was crisp and clear, and Benidorm was easily visible in the distance:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_17.jpg\" alt=\"DSF4858\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_18<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd the sight of the snow-capped mountains just behind the beach hotels and apartments of El Campello was amazing, whether in colour:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_18.jpg\" alt=\"DSF4866\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5_19<\/strong><br \/>\nOr in B&#038;W. Those mountains are no more than 30-40 km away:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2018\/5_19.jpg\" alt=\"DSF4864\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet week with a lot of work, and some interesting weather at the beginning and the end of the week. 5_1 I start with food. The seafood counters at the local supermarkets continue to impress me, even though I have lived here for more than 10 years now. The selection, the reasonable prices, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2074,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2103"}],"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=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2103\/revisions\/2105"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}