{"id":494,"date":"2011-02-27T11:11:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T10:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2011-03-13T07:49:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T06:49:24","slug":"week-8-tapas-and-mercado","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=494","title":{"rendered":"Week 08: tapas and Mercado"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s pictures have a strong tapas component. Our photography club held its monthly roundtable (tertulia<\/em>) at Bodega Adolfo on Tuesday night, and on Thursday I went out with three colleagues to check out tapas bars for a departmental outing planned for March 11th. So lots of pictures of tapas, bars and food this week.<\/p>\n

Main<\/strong>
\nBut I start with a bar that closed many years ago, and now is turning into a ruin, slowly but surely. I have long meant to photograph it, and on Sunday afternoon there was the additional attraction of a very dramatic sky. This picture is not manipulated, this is really what it looked like:
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\nAlternates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Alternate 1<\/em>
\nRecycling, Alicante style. When throwing out something that might be of use to others, it is common to leave it in a manner which makes it easy for people to avail themselves of the items:
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Alternate 2<\/em>
\nPoster put up on the window of a restaurant that went out of business some time ago. The text says something to the effect that the politicians have left us high and dry and we must stand up to them:
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Alternate 3<\/em>
\nTuesday evening we held a monthly photography roundtable at our habitual location, Bodega Adolfo. The bar has a projector for showing football etc., but we preferred to use our own. Here is the club’s president, Mark, trying to hang it using tape:
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Alternate 4<\/em>
\nAdolfo’s counter:
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Alternate 5<\/em>
\nOn Thursday, I went to check out tapas places with some colleagues, collectively known as the Tapas Management Committee. We had a serious purpose. In two weeks, our department will have it annual tapas-hopping event, and we needed to select the bars to visit. We explored a neighbourhood of Alicante which was new to me. It is working class neighbourhood but the tapas are actually better than in the centre and the bar owners were very friendly and welcoming. Here is a scene from El Rinc\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b3n de la Amistad (“friendship corner”):
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Alternate 6<\/em>
\nOne of the traditional tapas, calamares:
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Alternate 7<\/em>
\nThe Rinc\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b3n de la Amistad turned out to be an excellent choice. Here is the address for anyone visiting Alicante:
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Alternate 8<\/em>
\nTwo of my fellow members of the Tapas Management Committee, Beatrice and Herbert:
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Alternate 9<\/em>
\nOur notes with bars to visit and what to order in each place. Our tapas hopping is a structured event:
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Alternate 10<\/em>
\nTypical Spanish scene. The daughter of the owner of this tapas bar is on her lunch break, so of course she comes to daddy’s bar to eat:
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Alternate 11<\/em>
\nOld advertisement at Jes\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bas Dos tapas bar. Beer is indeed delicious:
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Alternate 12<\/em>
\nFriday night my wife and I went for dinner at our neighbourhood tapas place, Lizarran. Eating out is very much a family event around here. Children are not put to bed at 8 or 9 p.m. as is common in Northern Europe. This picture is taken around 10:30-11 p.m.:
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Alternate 13<\/em>
\nSaturday morning I went to the Mercado Central to buy lamb, fresh koriander, Lithuanian bread and pickled herring. While waiting for my lamb (they were cutting it in cubes for me), I looked around and snapped pictures–this is the other reason I like to go to the Mercado:
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Alternate 14<\/em>
\nLittle girl in the crowd at the market. She seemed happy:
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