\nAlicante continued to be colourful and bright, and I took several walks around the city after work. Here is the “mushroom street”:
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\nThe big ornament on Plaza Monta\u00c3\u00b1eta continued to be a popular spot for taking pictures:
\n![\"DSF8079\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_2.jpg\")
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\nOn the same square, the nativity display with its four panels also had a steady stream of visitors. This panel depicts the census:
\n![\"DSF8081\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_3.jpg\")
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\nAnd this is the angel informing the shepherds:
\n![\"DSF8073\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_4.jpg\")
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\nInside the Alicante town hall there is also a nativity scene, with figures made by local artists who specialise in this:
\n![\"DSF8085\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_5.jpg\")
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\n![\"DSF8086\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_6.jpg\")
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\nEven though I have lived in Alicante since 2007, this was the first time I had actually gone inside the town hall. The main staircase is quite impressive, not least because there is a sculpture by Salvador Dal\u00c3\u00ad, depicting John the Baptist:
\n![\"DSF8087\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_7.jpg\")
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\n![\"DSF8083\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_8.jpg\")
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\nOn the square in front of the town hall, a concert was going to take place later. The musicians were already there, warming up, but the audience was still sparse:
\n![\"DSF8088\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_9.jpg\")
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\nSome people were standing around, watching from a distance:
\n![\"DSF8091\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_10.jpg\")
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\nOn Saturday, I cycled to Villajoyosa, stopping next to a restaurant on the main highway for a short break, and to look at the nice light on a side road leading to the sea:
\n![\"1010996\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_11.jpg\")
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\nThere is also a nice view of the coast with the northern suburbs of Alicante:
\n![\"1010998\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_12.jpg\")
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\nThe handwritten menu was displayed:
\n![\"1020001\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_13.jpg\")
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\nBut the restaurant had gone out of business, perhaps another casualty of the Covid epidemic:
\n![\"1020002\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_14.jpg\")
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\nThe beach in Villajoyosa was almost deserted, this is clearly the low season:
\n![\"1020005\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_15.jpg\")
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\nLooking for lunch, probably:
\n![\"1020013\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_16.jpg\")
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\nOn Sunday I cycled to Busot and Jijona, seeing some very nice light along the road:
\n![\"1020019\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_17.jpg\")
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\n![\"1020020\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_18.jpg\")
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\nIn the afternoon we held a small Christmas lunch for our friends Eliot and Assumpta. My wife had won a turkey in a bridge tournament, so we needed some help consuming it. Balu came along as well–we kept him outside in the garden for a bit to let him run around, although he expressed a desire to come back inside:
\n![\"DSF1094\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_19.jpg\")
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\nAnd he eventually succeeded, that is what being a cute dog does. He got the usual loving attention from Monica and Alejandra:
\n![\"DSF1089\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_20.jpg\")
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\nMeanwhile, the turkey was done and we asked Eliot to perform the autopsy:
\n![\"DSF1096\"](\"uploads\/2021\/50_21.jpg\")
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