\nMy habitual cycling route takes me to the nearby mountain village of Aig\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bces. It is 20 km from my home, of which the last 10 are constantly uphill. So by the time I reach the main square of Aig\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bces, I am ready for a few minutes’ break, and so are lots of other cyclists. Here are some guys filling their water bottles:
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<\/p>\n13_2<\/strong> 13_3<\/strong> 13_4<\/strong> 13_5<\/strong> 13_6<\/strong> 13_7<\/strong> 13_8<\/strong> 13_9<\/strong> 13_10<\/strong> 13_11<\/strong> 13_12<\/strong> 13_13<\/strong> 13_14<\/strong> 13_15<\/strong> 13_16<\/strong> 13_17<\/strong> After the London trip last week, this will be just another “slices of life” week. 13_1 My habitual cycling route takes me to the nearby mountain village of Aig\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bces. It is 20 km from my home, of which the last 10 are constantly uphill. So by the time I reach the main square of Aig\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bces, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":671,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/729"}],"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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/729\/revisions\/732"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo continue the healthy theme, one evening I cooked a very hearty veg soup for me and my daughter (my wife was off skiing in Andorra):
\n![\"P1010531\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_2.jpg\")
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\nLater in the week, after my wife had recovered from the skiing, she cooked one of the classic Belgian dishes we used to enjoy so much when we lived in Brussels, moules<\/em> in a white wine broth:
\n![\"DSF0031\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_3.jpg\")
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\nThe debris afterwards:
\n![\"DSF0030\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_4.jpg\")
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\nOn Sunday afternoon, I had an errand south of the city, and I took the opportunity to drive down to the salt flats of Santa Pola, one of my favourite locations around here:
\n![\"IGP4386\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_5.jpg\")
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\nAnother view of the Salinas de Santa Pola:
\n![\"IGP4390\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_6.jpg\")
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\nAnother nice place in that area is the lighthouse of Santa Pola, located on a cliff overlooking the beach. In the distance, the island of Tabarca is visible:
\n![\"IGP4392\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_7.jpg\")
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\nThere were several paragliders around:
\n![\"IGP4406\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_8.jpg\")
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\nAnd they came close:
\n![\"IGP4399\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_9.jpg\")
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\nReally close:
\n![\"IGP4400\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_10.jpg\")
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\nTuesday night we had the monthly wine tasting at the office, this time of California wines, presented by an Argentine guy who has a company importing New World wines to Spain:
\n![\"DSF0006\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_11.jpg\")
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\nThe first wine, a Sauvignon Blanc, was actually the best; the reds that followed (Zinfandel, Cabernet) were OK but certainly not worth the price:
\n![\"DSF0008\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_12.jpg\")
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\nThe 21st century way of taking notes:
\n![\"DSF0010\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_13.jpg\")
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\nAnother image from the office, the EU version of Easter Eggs, including one representing Ryanair, the dominant airline at Alicante airport:
\n![\"DSF0028\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_14.jpg\")
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\nOn Friday, one of my favourite eating places, a beach restaurant I “discovered” last summer, Hostal Maruja, re-opened for the season. A few of us went to have lunch there. This is Antenina, our Lithuanian trainee, getting a good taste of our lifestyle:
\n![\"DSF0033\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_15.jpg\")
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\nTwo members of my team, a Polish economist and a German engineer. We certainly have a variety of backgrounds in our office:
\n![\"DSF0037\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_16.jpg\")
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\nWhen you eat lunch at Hostal Maruja, you have the view of the beach, and you just do not feel like going back to the office:
\n![\"DSF0034\"](\"uploads\/2012\/13_17.jpg\")
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