{"id":3586,"date":"2022-03-31T21:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3586"},"modified":"2022-03-31T21:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:36:01","slug":"week-12-a-visit-to-mercado-central","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3586","title":{"rendered":"Week 12: a visit to Mercado Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week of work and a bit of cycling, and a visit to Mercado Central for the first time in a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12_1<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother weekend bike ride. We have had a lot of clouds and rain, in fact, this is the rainiest March since the Spanish meteorological office began keeping records in the 1880s:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_1.jpg\" alt=\"1020234\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_2<\/strong><br \/>\nI stopped for a break in Busot. The tiny Sunday market was being wound up:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_2.jpg\" alt=\"1020233\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_3<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_3.jpg\" alt=\"1020235\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_4<\/strong><br \/>\nAn impressive solar plant along the road from Busot to Jijona:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_4.jpg\" alt=\"1020236\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_5<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring the week, I continued my low-key campaign against Russian products:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_5.jpg\" alt=\"R007108\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_6<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Sunday we were going to celebrate my wife&#8217;s birthday with curry for our Spanish friends&#8211;they love my Indian food. So on Saturday morning I went to the Mercado Central to buy the lamb. It is much better and cheaper there than in supermarkets. As I always do, I walked around for a while, taking pictures:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_6.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1034\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_7<\/strong><br \/>\nThe fish and seafood section is always the most interesting part of the market:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_7.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1055\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_8<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_8.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1043\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_9<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_9.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1049\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_10<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_10.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1041\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_11<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_11.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1054\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_12<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_12.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1037\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_13<\/strong><br \/>\nThe fruit section is a cornucopia of abundance:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_13.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1056\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_14<\/strong><br \/>\nShopping with a friend:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_14.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1053\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_15<\/strong><br \/>\nThis being Spain, there are bars inside the Mercado:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_15.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1058\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>12_16<\/strong><br \/>\nFinally, a snap from the office, one of the many cats living on our campus:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/12_16.jpg\" alt=\"R007109\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week of work and a bit of cycling, and a visit to Mercado Central for the first time in a couple of months. 12_1 Another weekend bike ride. We have had a lot of clouds and rain, in fact, this is the rainiest March since the Spanish meteorological office began keeping records in [&hellip;]<\/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\/3586"}],"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=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3586\/revisions\/3589"}],"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=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}