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A pleasant week of art, books and lunch with my friend Eri.<\/p>\n

21_1<\/strong>
\nMochi has been a victim of feminist aggression–he was neutered. So he had to wear this “lamp shade” for about 10 days:
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21_2<\/strong>
\nStaying with the canine theme, a small dog at 100 Montaditos:
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21_3<\/strong>
\nWhen I walk on the beach, I often see other people taking pictures, although mostly with their phones:
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21_4<\/strong>
\nOn Sunday I did a long ride of 82 km with a reasonable amount of climbing. Passing through the suburb San Vicente, home of the University of Alicante, I stopped to photograph the political graffiti on the wall near the Department of Education. This one is pretty self-explanatory:
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21_5<\/strong>
\nA protest against AirBnB, a common occurrence in Spain these days:
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21_6<\/strong>
\nAfter about 50 km, I was passing a pretty stretch of road between Novelda and Agost:
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21_7<\/strong>
\nAlicante province is wine country, but these grapes near Agost are destined for the table:
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21_8<\/strong>
\nA couple of km later, a nice view of Agost, a town I visit almost every weekend. Notice the cemetery at the highest point of the town:
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21_9<\/strong>
\nLater in the week, I went for lunch at Hostal Maruja, always a pleasure:
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21_10<\/strong>
\nOn Tuesday evening it was time for the monthly meeting of our book club WeRead. This time we met for dinner at an Indian restaurant located in a development south of the office, in a square we called the “Guiri square” (guiri is the local slang expression for an English visitor or resident). I gave Eri and her friend Maria (also Greek) a ride from the office, and before dinner we had a drink at a pub on the square:
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21_11<\/strong>
\nThen we walked across the square and sat down at the restaurant table. I had Caroline, the founder of the book club, across from me, along with Christine and Eri:
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21_12<\/strong>
\nThe book of the month was a somewhat unusual choice, a play by Woody Allen called “God”. Maria actually got hold of stand-alone edition of the play:
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21_13<\/strong>
\nThe rest of us obtained the play as part of a collection of essays and plays called “Without Feathers”:
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21_14<\/strong>
\nEri usually prepares very seriously for those meetings. Here she is speaking from her notes, the rest of us listen:
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21_15<\/strong>
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21_16<\/strong>
\nBesides the literary talk, the food was also excellent and inexpensive:
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21_17<\/strong>
\nThe following day Eri and I had our monthly lunch date. This time she chose a Greek restaurant called Kyknos, not far from where I live, in a location where I never imagined that there would be such good Greek food. Eri clearly knew the people running the place, and I put myself in her hands as far as the choices of food. The conversation was in Greek, and then Greek beer appeared:
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21_18<\/strong>
\nThe appetisers began with stuffed vine leaves:
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21_19<\/strong>
\nWhat Greek salad really looks like:
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21_20<\/strong>
\nBaked feta with phyllo dough and honey:
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21_21<\/strong>
\nStuffed aubergines:
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21_22<\/strong>
\nBougatsa<\/em>, a traditional dessert from Thessaloniki:
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21_23<\/strong>
\nBaklava to finish things off:
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21_24<\/strong>
\nOn Thursday we had an exhibition opening at the office. Our art club WeArt has a small exhibition space at our premises, to which we invite local artists to exhibit their work. This time the exhibition was by local artist Almudena Torr\u00c3\u00b3<\/a>. Kari, the president of our club, says a few words:
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21_25<\/strong>
\nThen Almudena takes the microphone:
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21_26<\/strong>
\nLooking at her works. Almudena Torr\u00c3\u00b3 is a sculptor who works not in stone or marble but rather fine metal mesh:
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21_27<\/strong>
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21_28<\/strong>
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21_29<\/strong>
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21_30<\/strong>
\nWe also had a brief performance by a local composer:
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21_31<\/strong>
\nAnd then some snacks and conversation, here Eri and V\u00c3\u00a9ronique, both of whom work in the department where I worked until I took over at my current department in July 2024:
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21_32<\/strong>
\nI finish with an image from Saturday’s bike ride, in Santa Faz. These flowers are everywhere in Alicante right now:
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