\nThe beach in the morning after a rainy and windy night:
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![\"DSF1159\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_1.jpg\")
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\nSame day, in the afternoon on my way home from work:
\n![\"DSF1161\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_2.jpg\")
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\nThe following day, the weather was greatly improved. The precipitation of the previous days was visible on the Sierra de Aitana in the distance:
\n![\"DSF1165\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_3.jpg\")
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\nOn the beach, the usual activities were taking place:
\n![\"DSF1170\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_4.jpg\")
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\n![\"DSF1173\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_5.jpg\")
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\nOn Friday afternoon, I stopped to buy some stuff from the Eastern European grocery store on Plaza Seneca (just visible in the background). It is a lovely urban space that used to house Alicante’s main bus station but is now a breathing space for the people in the neighbourhood:
\n![\"DSF1179\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_6.jpg\")
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\nGiven the current terrible war in Ukraine started by Russia’s fascist regime, it is very poignant to see children playing on Civil War era air raid shelters, today a memory of a time when Alicante was being bombed by Italian planes in 1938. While Alicante children are using the remnants of a war 84 years ago as a playground, Ukrainian children are being killed by Russians:
\n![\"DSF1176\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_7.jpg\")
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\n![\"DSF1177\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_8.jpg\")
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\nAn old sign on the fire station on Plaza Seneca, along with some freelance adornment:
\n![\"DSF1181\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_9.jpg\")
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\nOn Saturday morning I cycled south to Elche and Santa Pola, an 84 km ride that is not too challenging because the terrain is not mountainous as on most of my other routes. The beach in Santa Pola was still uncrowded but there were people enjoying it:
\n![\"1020264\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_10.jpg\")
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\nThe air was very clear, and the nearby island of Tabarca was easily visible:
\n![\"1020261\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_11.jpg\")
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\nA photo:
\n![\"1020265\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_12.jpg\")
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\nJust outside the fishing harbour. There was very little wind, great conditions for these guys:
\n![\"1020268\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_13.jpg\")
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\nOn my way home, I stopped for a last break at the Urbanova beach, about 20 km from home. Sitting on a low bench, I had a unique vantage point of the passing traffic. This photo is not technically perfect but it is the kind of image Garry Winogrand might have shot (if he shot in colour):
\n![\"1020274\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_14.jpg\")
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\nIn the afternoon, I walked down to our beach. The recent storms have made a mess of the beaches, and local authorities have been hard at work. All the seaweed and other debris that had washed up was not gathered in big piles, to be carted off later:
\n![\"1020276\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_15.jpg\")
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\nBut it does not keep people from using the beach, and I snapped this social interaction on the promenade:
\n![\"1020279\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_16.jpg\")
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\nTwo women in conversation, Benidorm in the distance:
\n![\"1020278\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_17.jpg\")
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\nThere is a large vacant lot next to the supermarket where a bunch of cats have taken up residence. This has now been blessed with some kind of official status as a protected feline colony. This status is bestowed by the municipal animal protection department, and basically the sign says not to put additional food beyond what the volunteers put, not to remove anything, and so on:
\n![\"1020282\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_18.jpg\")
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\nTwo of the inhabitants of the colonia felina<\/em>:
\n![\"1020280\"](\"uploads\/2022\/14_19.jpg\")
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