\nCastillo Santa Barbara is an old Moorish castle, begun in the 9th century. It is located on a hill overlooking the town, which must have given it great strategic value in the Middle Ages. Today it is a museum, but more than anything a nice park from which one can look at the city below:
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![\"L1004486\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19.jpg\")
<\/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> Alternate 9<\/em> Alternate 10<\/em> Alternate 11<\/em> Alternate 12<\/em> Alternate 13<\/em> Alternate 14<\/em> More Alicante pictures this week. Summer has well and truly begun, and the beach plays a bigger part in our lives than at other times of the year. But I start with a couple of pictures from an important Alicante landmark. Main Castillo Santa Barbara is an old Moorish castle, begun in the 9th century. […]<\/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\/240"}],"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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions\/242"}],"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=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe castle road is popular among mountain-bikers. Lots of work to get up, lots of speed on the way down. The day was hot and hazy:
\n![\"L1004491\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt1.jpg\")
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\nFamily on the beach. Playa Muchavista is where we lived until June 2008. Now it is a few km away, but we still go there on bicycle from time to time:
\n![\"L1004473\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt2.jpg\")
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\nDo NOT stop to smell the flowers \ud83d\ude09 They get watered by all the neighbourhood dogs:
\n![\"L1004438\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt3.jpg\")
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\nThe city of Alicante has started a campaign to get people to pick up their dogs’ droppings. The slogan reads “Alicante is your home”. I find the poster amusing:
\n![\"L1004477\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt4.jpg\")
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\nWhen walking the dog, I always look at the handbills posted on light poles. This one is especially amusing, offering a number of handyman-type services under the headline “Husband for rent”:
\n![\"L1004481\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt5.jpg\")
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\nThis business has been closed since well before the current crisis hit. I liked the faded sign and the colours:
\n![\"L1004515\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt6.jpg\")
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\nFriday afternoon I took a walk in El Campello. This picture is part of my “shadow and light” series:
\n![\"L1004520\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt7.jpg\")
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\nAn old man watches the activity on the beach, perhaps thinking back to his own youth many years ago:
\n![\"L1004518\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt8.jpg\")
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\nFrom a distance, it looks as if the man is checking out the flesh being browned:
\n![\"L1004516\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt9.jpg\")
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\nPeople playing in the water:
\n![\"L1004536\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt10.jpg\")
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\nThe nice thing about the beaches in El Campello is that there is a promenade stretching for several km, so one can enjoy the beach without actually venturing into the sand. I like to walk along this promenade, pausing for a beer at one of the bars as needed, and looking at the human traffic. Here, a little dog has quite a bit of pulling power:
\n![\"L1004528\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt11.jpg\")
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\nA girl on the balustrade in late afternoon:
\n![\"L1004537\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt12.jpg\")
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\nThe find of the week was a bar which has a great selection of Belgian beer, and an attractive and friendly barmaid to boot:
\n![\"L1004527\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt13.jpg\")
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\nOne of my favourite beers:
\n![\"L1004524\"](\"uploads\/2009\/19alt14.jpg\")
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