{"id":3397,"date":"2021-10-08T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3397"},"modified":"2021-10-08T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:41:15","slug":"week-38-goodbye-to-justyna-walk-in-the-city-salinas-de-santa-pola","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3397","title":{"rendered":"Week 38: goodbye to Justyna, walk in the city, Salinas de Santa Pola"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week during which we said goodbye to a well-liked colleague at the office who was moving on to bigger things in Brussels. We also said goodbye to the current crop of trainees, and as always I was out and about on my bicycle.<\/p>\n

38_1<\/strong>:
\nOur trainee Alejandra finished her traineeship and is now moving on to its continuation at the European Patent Office in Munich. On her last day, I took a picture, of course:
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38_2<\/strong>:
\nOne evening, I met up for a beer after work with Eri and a couple of other colleagues, at a bar next to Alicante harbour. The sunset was lovely:
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38_3<\/strong>:
\nEri:
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38_4<\/strong>:
\nOne of the nice things about this particular bar is the location at Plaza Puerta del Mar, meaning that one can sit at the terrace and be entertained by the human traffic. Here, a selfie:
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38_5<\/strong>:
\nChecking out the yachts:
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38_6<\/strong>:
\nOne of my bike rides took me south to La Marina. From there I cycled back north to Alicante, passing the salt flats south of Santa Pola along the way. The national road N332 passes through the Salinas, in places one is riding on water, almost:
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38_7<\/strong>:
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38_8<\/strong>:
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38_9<\/strong>:
\nThe end product. I am not sure if it is destined for our tables or for roads in northern Europe during the winter:
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38_10<\/strong>:
\nApproaching Santa Pola:
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38_11<\/strong>:
\nAn after-work walk in the centre, starting at Plaza Monta\u00c3\u00b1eta and a man entertaining the children, hoping to extract a reward from their parents:
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38_12<\/strong>:
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38_13<\/strong>:
\nFierce cat:
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38_14<\/strong>:
\nNow that many of my bike rides start at sunrise (or before), I get to see skies like this almost every morning:
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38_15<\/strong>:
\nOur Polish colleague Justyna is moving on to a job at the Commission in Brussels. We used her departure as an excuse to have our first drink at the office in more than a year, albeit outside:
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38_16<\/strong>:
\nJustyna says a few words, not really a speech–she is not the type to give speeches:
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38_17<\/strong>:
\nA glass and a conversation:
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38_18<\/strong>:
\nA Spaniard, a Greek and a Swede:
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38_19<\/strong>:
\nAt the end of the week, I cycled to Jijona and Busot. The road between the two towns is truly lovely:
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38_20<\/strong>:
\nThe new solar farm comes into view:
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38_21<\/strong>:
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38_22<\/strong>:
\nI stopped for a break in Busot, at a place I have passed many times but never really explored. I realised that the windows were really murals:
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38_23<\/strong>:
\nThere is a sculpture representing the Cuevas de Canelobre, a bona fide tourist attraction a few km outside the town. I learned that the sculture was the work of a Polish artist living in Busot, Anna Klimowicz:
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38_24<\/strong>:
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38_25<\/strong>:
\nSome closer views of the “windows”:
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38_26<\/strong>:
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A week during which we said goodbye to a well-liked colleague at the office who was moving on to bigger things in Brussels. We also said goodbye to the current crop of trainees, and as always I was out and about on my bicycle. 38_1: Our trainee Alejandra finished her traineeship and is now moving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3141,"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\/3397"}],"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=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397\/revisions\/3400"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}