{"id":3564,"date":"2022-03-13T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3564"},"modified":"2022-03-13T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T19:41:25","slug":"week-09-a-walk-through-benimagrell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3564","title":{"rendered":"Week 09: a walk through Benimagrell"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quiet week with a lot of work and not many photos, but finishing with a nice walk through a unique village on the outskirts of Alicante.<\/p>\n

9_1<\/strong>
\nOn Thursday morning, during my usual pre-work bike ride, the sunrise was particularly spectacular thanks to the cloudy skies. I stopped at the dog beach in El Campello to take a few pictures:
\n\"1020199\"<\/p>\n

9_2<\/strong>
\nBenidorm in the distance:
\n\"1020195\"<\/p>\n

9_3<\/strong>
\nA small boat heading out:
\n\"1020196\"<\/p>\n

9_4<\/strong>
\nLater in the week, we had lots of rain and wind, and I photographed the aftermath at our beach:
\n\"R007041\"<\/p>\n

9_5<\/strong>
\n\"R007043\"<\/p>\n

9_6<\/strong>
\n\"P1060192\"<\/p>\n

9_7<\/strong>
\nOn Saturday morning it was dry again, and I cycled towards Relleu. The landscape along the way continues to give me pleasure and awe. The mountain in the background is the Sierra de Aitana, with some military radar on top:
\n\"1020200\"<\/p>\n

9_8<\/strong>
\nAnother cyclist out and about:
\n\"1020202\"<\/p>\n

9_9<\/strong>
\nThe cemetery in Busot, on top of the village:
\n\"1020205\"<\/p>\n

9_10<\/strong>
\nVacant spaces:
\n\"1020208\"<\/p>\n

The rest of this week’s photos are from a tiny village called Benimagrell. Before Alicante became a big tourist town and swallowed the surrounding suburbs, there were many such villages around the city. This one has somehow survived. It consists of one street, leading from national road N332 to Playa Muchavista, the part of El Campello (a northern suburb of Alicante) where I live. The length of the village is less than 1 km. It was raining on Sunday so I did not go for my usual long bike ride, but once the rain stopped, I went for a walk and did something I had often thought about–walking through Benimagrell with my camera. I present the photos chronologically, as I walk down the village street.<\/p>\n

9_11<\/strong>
\nJust before entering the village, there is an underpass with some wall paintings:
\n\"P1060196\"<\/p>\n

9_12<\/strong>
\nAs is evident from this photo, progress is encroaching on the village, and the people who live there are not too happy about it:
\n\"P1060198\"<\/p>\n

9_13<\/strong>
\nI entered the village and walked down the main street. It was around 3-4 p.m., so most people were inside eating lunch:
\n\"P1060199\"<\/p>\n

9_14<\/strong>
\nRoadside conversation:
\n\"P1060200\"<\/p>\n

9_15<\/strong>
\nThis is where the people of Benimagrell used to get their water until 1950:
\n\"P1060202\"<\/p>\n

9_16<\/strong>
\nThe lower part of the main road, with a bar on the left:
\n\"P1060203\"<\/p>\n

9_17<\/strong>
\nCharo’s house (Charo is a nickname for Mar\u00c3\u00ada Rosario):
\n\"P1060204\"<\/p>\n

9_18<\/strong>
\nBenimagrell is one of those places where people are not too bothered about keeping the door locked at all times:
\n\"P1060205\"<\/p>\n

9_19<\/strong>
\nAbout 3\/4 of the way down there is a small square with a monument to pilota<\/em>, the traditional Valencian handball<\/a> game:
\n\"P1060208\"<\/p>\n

9_20<\/strong>
\nThere is a small church, too, making the village really self-contained:
\n\"P1060210\"<\/p>\n

9_21<\/strong>
\nThere is only one church but there are three bars, reflecting the priorities:
\n\"P1060211\"<\/p>\n

9_22<\/strong>
\nA space for humans and cats:
\n\"P1060212\"<\/p>\n

9_23<\/strong>
\nAt the bottom of the street, a fancy restaurant and a feline guard:
\n\"P1060216\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quiet week with a lot of work and not many photos, but finishing with a nice walk through a unique village on the outskirts of Alicante. 9_1 On Thursday morning, during my usual pre-work bike ride, the sunrise was particularly spectacular thanks to the cloudy skies. I stopped at the dog beach in El […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3513,"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\/3564"}],"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=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3564\/revisions\/3569"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}