{"id":2921,"date":"2020-06-02T18:38:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=2921"},"modified":"2020-06-02T18:38:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:38:58","slug":"week-22-cycling-first-get-together-with-friends-in-two-months","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=2921","title":{"rendered":"Week 22: cycling, first get-together with friends in two months"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the week, I continued to enjoy my newly recovered relative freedom to move around, and we got together with our friends Eliot and Assumpta for the first time in more than two months. Right now, even the ability to do little things like that feels new and wonderful.<\/p>\n

22_1<\/strong>
\nI cycled to Villajoyosa again this week, but this time I went all the way to the centre of the town, since now there was no danger of being fined for leaving my municipality. Along the way, there is this short tunnel, which I normally do not particularly enjoy on bicycle, since the shoulder is narrow in the tunnel. But on this Sunday morning there was no traffic, so I even stopped to take a picture:
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22_2<\/strong>
\nOnce in the town, I enjoyed the beautiful coloured houses in the little streets and on the beach promenade:
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22_3<\/strong>
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22_4<\/strong>
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22_5<\/strong>
\nLife on the beach paseo<\/em> seemed more or less normal, although there were fewer people than usual, and the dress code was different as well:
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22_6<\/strong>
\nEntrance to Villajoyosa harbour:
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22_7<\/strong>
\nAs I was leaving the beach area to cycle home, I was being watched:
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22_8<\/strong>
\nIn the afternoon, we were invited by Eliot and Assumpta for lunch at their house, the first social visit in more than two months. Such visits are now allowed, with maximum 10 participants. We were 8 humans and 2 dogs, so within the limit. As we arrived, Eliot was already doing his thing on the BBQ:
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22_9<\/strong>
\nIngredients found in many Spanish kitchens:
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22_10<\/strong>
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22_11<\/strong>
\nTwo puppies at furious play. They had amazing energy levels:
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22_12<\/strong>
\nBut I did catch them at some semblance of stationarity. This one belongs to Assumpta:
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22_13<\/strong>
\nAnd this cutie belongs to Lucas, Eliot’s son:
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22_14<\/strong>
\nThe next day, I was on my way to Busot and stopped to take in the view of the road and the climbing that awaited me–the little white house is the highest point of the ride:
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22_15<\/strong>
\nThe familiar view of the village, with the cemetery on top:
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22_16<\/strong>
\nBusot has a new part of the village, with some nice, large houses and a nice view:
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22_17<\/strong>
\nMy usual routine is to get up at 5:30 or 6, wake up with some coffee, have breakfast and go for my ride at 7-7:15 a.m. This means that I get to see some lovely morning light, like here over the old round tower in El Campello harbour:
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22_18<\/strong>
\nSmall boat coming in:
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22_19<\/strong>
\nOn Wednesday morning, I had an appointment with my rheumatologist who works in a clinic near my office, south of Alicante. I took advantage of the opportunity to visit the beach at Urbanova, a place I had not seen since February. The beach, like the ones north of the city where I live, is being cleaned up in preparation for the return of tourists, limited as it might be:
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22_20<\/strong>
\nMany of the bars and restaurants were still closed:
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22_21<\/strong>
\nBut I was pleased to see people having breakfast at Moments, one of my favourite places:
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22_22<\/strong>
\nAnd some life on the promenade. In a few weeks, when Spain’s reopening enters the next stage, people from Madrid, who own many of the apartments on this beach, will be allowed to travel here again, and there will be more traffic on the beach:
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22_23<\/strong>
\nSome anti-confinement graffiti in Urbanova:
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22_24<\/strong>
\nAnother morning ride, another morning of beautiful light along the beach:
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22_25<\/strong>
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22_26<\/strong>
\nMorning light can be enjoyed also by looking down:
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22_27<\/strong>
\nIn Busot, a man talks to his neighbour from his balcony:
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22_28<\/strong>
\nBusot, green trees and blue mountains:
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22_29<\/strong>
\nAlong the road between Busot and Jijona a huge solar power plant is being built. Some people may consider it an eyesore, but I focus more on the clean energy it will produce, and the land on which it is being built is just a large, barren field:
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22_30<\/strong>
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22_31<\/strong>
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22_32<\/strong>
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22_33<\/strong>
\nAnother outing on the beach, this time by car to go for a beer at one of my favourite bars. I put a long lens on my camera and took some images of the distant mountains and the city of Benidorm across the bay:
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22_34<\/strong>
\nFishing on the wave breaker:
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During the week, I continued to enjoy my newly recovered relative freedom to move around, and we got together with our friends Eliot and Assumpta for the first time in more than two months. Right now, even the ability to do little things like that feels new and wonderful. 22_1 I cycled to Villajoyosa again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2755,"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\/2921"}],"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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2921\/revisions\/2923"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}