{"id":286,"date":"2009-09-15T19:52:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T18:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=286"},"modified":"2009-09-15T19:52:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T18:52:33","slug":"week-36-france-alicante-and-rain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=286","title":{"rendered":"Week 36: France, Alicante and rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The week started in France. I was on my way home from Perpignan (see gallery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozenlight.eu\/perpignan2009\/index.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.frozenlight.eu\/perpignan2009\/index.html', 'here']);\" >here<\/a>). We drove the approximately 40 km to the Spanish border along the coastal road instead of the motorway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is what the road looked like:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36.jpg\" alt=\"L1007468\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe alternates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 1<\/em><br \/>\nThe road passes through pictoresque seaside towns:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt1.jpg\" alt=\"L1007471\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 2<\/em><br \/>\nWe stopped for lunch in the last French town, Cerb\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a8re. Evidently there had been a big party the night before:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt2.jpg\" alt=\"L1007470\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 3<\/em><br \/>\nNot a lot of traffic in the town, so the girl selling ice cream had plenty of time for the kitty:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt3.jpg\" alt=\"L1007473\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 4<\/em><br \/>\nSince I started cycling a month or so ago, I notice signs like this one, and become suitably impressed:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt4.jpg\" alt=\"L1007472\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the pictures are from around my home in Alicante.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 5<\/em><br \/>\nSmall-town life in El Campello. The plaza in front of the church is a playground and a gathering place:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt5.jpg\" alt=\"L1007516\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 6<\/em><br \/>\nThree of &#8220;my&#8221; cats on our golf course. We feed them through this hole in the fence, as do other inhabitants of our subdivision:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt6.jpg\" alt=\"L1007535\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 7<\/em><br \/>\nEarly morning, a man reading the paper on a bench near our house. I really like the way my Leica lenses can deal with strong <em>contre-jour<\/em>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt7.jpg\" alt=\"L1007541\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 8<\/em><br \/>\nOn weekends, I buy bread, croissants and <em>napolitanas<\/em> at this bakery while I walk my dog in the morning:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt8.jpg\" alt=\"L1007539\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 9<\/em><br \/>\nOn Thursday, five of my sons&#8217; friends from the University of Bath came to visit us for a few days. Here are some of the in full flight:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt9.jpg\" alt=\"L1007552\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 10<\/em><br \/>\nOne day, we stopped at this ATM to get some cash and found it guarded by a fearsome creature. But since he was sitting on a key that was not needed, we just worked around him:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt10.jpg\" alt=\"L1007562\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 11<\/em><br \/>\nSunday afternoon, threatening clouds rolled in:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt11.jpg\" alt=\"L1007568\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 12<\/em><br \/>\nAnd the threat was not empty:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2009\/36alt12.jpg\" alt=\"L1007574\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week started in France. I was on my way home from Perpignan (see gallery here). We drove the approximately 40 km to the Spanish border along the coastal road instead of the motorway. Main This is what the road looked like: The alternates: Alternate 1 The road passes through pictoresque seaside towns: Alternate 2 [&hellip;]<\/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\/286"}],"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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions\/287"}],"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=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}